Re: Red X where volume control applet should be

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Perfect.  Yup.  That's the problem and the solution.  Works great!  A big
thanks to both Malcolm and Kevin for helping with this.

-David


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Vandersloot" <kfv101@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <delta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 8:02 AM
Subject: Re: Red X where volume control applet should be


> Hi David. Most likely your problem is the same as in this bug:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104935
>
> As a fix for now you can do "configure --prefix=/usr/local"
>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
> >From: "David Cunningham" <delta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: "Malcolm Tredinnick"
<malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,<gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: Re: Red X where volume control applet should be
> >Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 03:50:20 -0800
> >
> >Thank you for the suggestions Malcolm.  I've managed to figure out a way
to
> >resolve this but my way is only a weird hack.  Developers might have some
> >insight into what's going on here.
> >
> >I noticed inside the /usr/local/libexec/mixer_applet2 file there are
paths
> >to the icons hard coded in.  The paths look like this:
> >NONE/share/pixmaps/mixer/gnome-mixer-applet.png
> >Each icon referenced has a NONE prepended where /usr should be.  I assume
> >this is because NONE gets dynamically replaced with /usr at execution
time.
> >Using sed to replace all occurrences of NONE with /usr fixes the problem.
> >This is strange considering that all the other applets in this directory
> >also reference their icons using a NONE prefix and all the other applets
> >properly DISPLAY their icons too.  For some reason this one applet when
> >executed fails to have NONE dynamically replaced with /usr.
> >
> >I'd love to have a developer venture a guess as to why that may be.  Is
> >there a developer list for gnome-applets?
> >
> ><|>/\\/|<|>
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Malcolm Tredinnick" <malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 4:36 PM
> >Subject: Re: Red X where volume control applet should be
> >
> > > My first thought would be to have a look in $HOME/.xsession-errors.
That
> > > is where any error output is sent. So have a look for entries just
after
> > > you logged in (since that is when it is populating the panel) and see
if
> > > there is a complaint about a missing .png file.
> > >
> > > If your .xsession-errors file is as full of errors as my one is (some
> > > GNOME applications leave warning and error messages all over the
> > > carpet), you may wish to log out, delete that file and log in again so
> > > that things are easier to find.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Malcolm
> > >
> > > On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 23:08, David Cunningham wrote:
> > > > Hi Folks.  I'm running Gnome Desktop 2.2.0.1.  The Gnome volume
> >control
> > > > applet however appears as a Red X instead of the volume icon as
> >expected.
> > > > I've parsed the volume control applet file through strings and
> >verified
> > > > that the path to the volume control icon is pointing to the right
> >place
> > > > and that the icon exists and is viewable.  All of Gnome (including
the
> > > > volume control applet) functions normally.  It's just this one
> >cosmetic
> > > > issue that's bothering me.  I can't seem to figure out why the
proper
> >icon
> > > > won't display.
> > > >
> > > > Is there any troubleshooting steps I can apply in to resolve this?
> >Any
> > > > help would be much appreciated.
> > >
> > >
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