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Topic: icons broken, fluxbox; dsl 0_9_2

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Posted: April 01 2006,20:40

my icons broke today.
When starting X the icons appeared for some seconds but disappeared before X has ended the loading process.

I moved all the .lnk and .jpg and .jpeg and .png and .xpm files out of the .xtdesktop directory and tried step by step with each pair.

It is working with most of the pairs but it seems some are broken.

Don't know what happened.

Still don't work perfectly.

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Posted: April 01 2006,20:58

What did you install just before this happened?

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Posted: April 02 2006,20:11

The things I did during the session before the disaster.

I added the firefox 1.5 and thunderbird 1.5 .uci to bootlocal.sh.
I wanted them to be mounted on startup.

I converted several icons from .xpm to .png, from .jpg to .png ...

I also have not been able to start xterm/bash using the desktop icon (It broke earlier). So I very often "tuned" the xterm.lnk during this session.

After a new bootup the icons disappeared.

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Posted: April 03 2006,01:27

Quote (I went to bed very late @ April 02 2006,16:11)

I converted several icons from .xpm to .png, from .jpg to .png

This is the most likely culprit. When you converted the image, did you make sure to edit the LNK file for every one of the changed files?
Did you go back and double check that you made no typos? Were all of the conversions successful?

It takes only one typo in one LNK file to bring the whole thing down. It takes only one missing or corrupted image file to do the same.

Try starting xtdesk from a terminal and see what error messages you receive.

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Posted: April 07 2006,12:30

hi,
one .lnk had an entry "home/dsl/.xtdesktop/xterm.gif"

There was a "/" missing in front of "home".

I am happy this works fine now. Thanks for help

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