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dtd

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Registered: 2011-12-08

Posts: 76

[Solved] can't assign an icon to xpad panel object

I added xpad to the panel. It works fine. I just have not been able to an icon to the panel item. It is auto started so
~/.config/autostart/xpad.desktop is:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=0.9.4
Type=Application
Name=xpad
Comment=
Exec=/usr/local/bin/xpad
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Hidden=false
Icon=xfce4-notes-plugin.svg

I was able to make the menu entry use the notes plugin icon. What's here is the last of many attempts.

dtd

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Registered: 2011-12-08

Posts: 76

Re: [Solved] can't assign an icon to xpad panel object

I love my Unix desktop and xfce is a fine option for those of us who liked (or were okay with) kde3. Howsome ever my system has more than 450 components. I told you that so I could tell you how I 'fixed' the missing icon problem. since I do not want kdelib I need a PDF viewer. I tried Evince wich broke gnumeric (don't ask how - it did). So I backed it and its dependencies out of my system. This caused a lot of issues so I had to force some running components to terminate and I rebooted.

YEP - you probably guessed, the icon I had assigned to xpad appeared on the panel. How great is that???

secipolla

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 393

Re: [Solved] can't assign an icon to xpad panel object

Glad, it auto-solved itself.
But a general rule is to NOT use the extension in the icon name (svg, png etc.). As far as I remember, you can use the extension if you put the entire icon path but otherwise you should use just the icon name.

dtd

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Registered: 2011-12-08

Posts: 76

Re: [Solved] can't assign an icon to xpad panel object

I tried almost any combination you might think of. My most 'inventive' one was to add a panel entry for an xfce-plugin and then edit xpad into that entry. I think what happened (most likely) is that one of the packages I added did something to the menu structure. Then when I backed out evince and its dependencies the menu glitch was corrected. At some point tonight I will check file modification times and see if I can get any clues. I made no panel changes. The only thing I did was uninstall and reboot.

What I was mostly, was amused. With all the combinations of packages, hardware, operating systems and people its pretty amazing it all works.