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. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > gnome-list mailing list > > > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >gnome-list mailing list > >gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > >http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Shopping upgraded for the holidays! Snappier product search... > http://shopping.msn.com > > _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
