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bogdant

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Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 4

Desktop icons Xfce 4.4 RC2 - SOLVED

Hi all,
I've installed 4.4 RC2 (from bin installer) on a Slackware 11.0 (but first I've upgraded glib to 2.12.7, instaleed dbus & and dbus-glib -latest ver). Everything it's ok beside the fact I can't see the icons on the desktop (I saw that at least the defaults are present, as files, but I can't really see them on the desktop). What can I do ?  I've searched through the forum but the past answers didn't help - I don't want,yet, to try ROX or something like that, as long as XFCE says that NOW supports desktop icons....

Best regards,

Bogdan.

TomE

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Registered: 2005-02-05

Posts: 132

Re: Desktop icons Xfce 4.4 RC2 - SOLVED

run "xfce-setting-show backdrop" click the "Behavior" tab and select "File/launcher icons" from the drop downbox

bogdant

Member

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 4

Re: Desktop icons Xfce 4.4 RC2 - SOLVED

Hi Tom,
I've followed you instructions (already tested but not by lunching the app by term, so I did't know that I've done it previously). Bad news - I don't have the "File/launcher icons" from drop-down box. I vahe only "None" and "Minimezed applications icons".

Thanks,

Bogdan.

stonecrest

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Registered: 2004-09-25

Posts: 32

Re: Desktop icons Xfce 4.4 RC2 - SOLVED

That means xfdesktop was either compiled without support for desktop icons, or you're using an older version of xfdesktop that had a bug in this regard.

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bogdant

Member

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 4

Re: Desktop icons Xfce 4.4 RC2 - SOLVED

That means xfdesktop was either compiled without support for desktop icons, or you're using an older version of xfdesktop that had a bug in this regard.

Hi all,
I have compiled the sources for xfdesktop and the options are there. Thanks.
PS : Do you know why in the official release (the bin installer) this options is not compiled ?

Best regards,

Bogdan.