[arch-general] No menu icons on XFCE4 desktop [SOLVED]

[Peter Nabbefeld]

I've now found out, I had 2 settings managers installed (xsettingsd and
xfce4-settings); obviously this situation results in conflicts. I
wonder, why I didn't have problems before - probably xfce4-settings is a
new dependency or it was working different before? However, icons are
working again, and while I have still only 3 themes shown, they do
actually change colors of windows etc.

Kind regards
Peter



Am 21.06.21 um 21:56 schrieb Peter Nabbefeld via arch-general:
> Now I know, what causes the problems:
>
> $ ps ax | grep xsettingsd
>    1212 tty1     Z      0:00 [xsettingsd] <defunct>
>
> So, where can I find the error detail message?
>
> Regards
> P.
>
>
> Am 21.06.21 um 20:00 schrieb Peter Nabbefeld via arch-general:
>> After some investigation, it seems to be caused by some missing GTK
>> updates/configuration changes:
>>
>> - I've installed GTK2 and GTK3
>> - I just noticed GTK4 is available, but not installed
>> - Only 3 themes are available, which seem to be integrated with GTK3+
>> recently.
>>
>> So /usr/share/themes probably even isn't read - with about 130 themes
>> installed.
>>
>> Why could that happen, and how can I fix it?
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 19.06.21 um 15:41 schrieb Peter Nabbefeld via arch-general:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> since I've not updated my system since some weeks, I thought it
>>> would be
>>> a good time to do so - with two results:
>>> 1. My desktop theme changed.
>>> 2. The menu icons have gone.
>>>
>>> Well, while the first is not a real problem (I should be able to
>>> find an
>>> appropriate icon theme, but I'll look for that later), I don't know why
>>> the menu icons have gone, so I don't know where to start searching
>>> for a
>>> solution. I even didn't find something related when search the
>>> internet. :-/
>>>
>>> However, I found two sub-folders in /usr/share/icons/Adwaita for
>>> gtk-2.0
>>> and gtk-3.0, but only the first one contains any assets - maybe that's
>>> the problem? Any idea?
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>>
>>> Peter