[Gnome22-user] Some GNOME 2.2 Icons Broken

[Michael G. Morey]

James Strandboge wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 15:27, Michael G. Morey wrote:
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>>James Strandboge wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 10:30, Michael G. Morey wrote:
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>>>>All,
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>>>>I'm happily running the backport of GNOME 2.2 to Debian Woody, and yet 
>>>>find that some icons are broken, and so appear as [X] in the menus.  
>>>>These include:
>>>>
>>>>Actions->Run Program
>>>>Actions->Screenshot
>>>>
>>>>Can anyone tell me how to determine to which packages these icon files 
>>>>belong?  I know only how to do the reverse, i.e., "dpkg --filelist 
>>>><package-name>."
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>>>$ dpkg -S gnome-screenshot.png
>>>gnome-desktop-data: /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-screenshot.png
>>>
>>>$ COLUMNS=100 dpkg -l | grep gnome-desktop-data
>>>ii  gnome-desktop-data  2.2.2-1woody1       Common files for GNOME 2
>>>desktop apps
>>>
>>>Jamie
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>>Jamie,
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>>I reinstalled the package, although "apt-get --reinstall install 
>>gnome-desktop-data" didn't do the trick.  I downloaded the package and 
>>installed it using "dpkg -i gnome-desktop-data."  That "dpkg -S 
>><filename>" will come in handy.  Thanks for the suggestions.
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>You mentioned you had gnoppix installed before.  Make sure that you have
>all the gnoppix packages uninstalled.  Try:
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>COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | grep gnoppix
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>(I did the gnome2.4 gnoppix packages and gave them that extension).
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>If they aren't xfree86 packages, then remove them (use 'dpkg
>--force-depends --purge' to remove them).  After they are all
>uninstalled, do 'apt-get -f install'.  This will satisfy any dependency
>issues.  Logout of gnome and then back in.  
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>Also try under a new user.  If it works, it may just be that your old
>gnoppix (which is gnome2.4) settings are conflicting with the gnome2.2
>settings.  If that is the case, logout of gnome and do:
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>killall gconfd-2
>mkdir $HOME/bak
>mv $HOME/.gnome2 $HOME/bak
>mv $HOME/.gconfd $HOME/bak
>mv $HOME/.metacity $HOME/bak
>mv $HOME/.nautilus $HOME/bak
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>There may be others.  Basically, you want to get rid of all the gnome2.4
>stuff.
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>Hopefully this will fix it for you.  If not, submit
>$HOME/.xsession-errors.
>
>Jamie
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Jamie,

Thanks so much for the suggestion!  I knew dpkg was truncating columns, 
but hadn't thought to set the COLUMNS variable to remedy the situation.  
I appear to have 24 GNOPPIX packages remaining.  Ick!  How can I 
downgrade these to GNOME 2.2 gracefully, without inadvertently "pulling 
the rug out from under" packages which depend on these?  I confess to 
posessing little skill with dpkg and with the debian package system in 
general, having relied primarily on dselect, which does not appear to 
facilitate downgrading gracefully.

Thanks in advance.

Michael

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