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[ In reference to "The Unbearable Lightness of Desktops: IceWM and idesk" in LG#160 ]
mrfrank [czechfox at sbcglobal.net]
ATTN:Ben Okopnik
Just happened to run across the question in Linux Gazette Mar issue about idesk. Just so happens I finally got idesk up a couple hrs ago using your info at http://linuxgazette.net/160/okopnik.html then downloaded your idesk icon configurator. Small problem at this end.
Instead of showing icons, I get a series of 'Submit Query' in my browser. If I configure a link by clicking on one of the 'Submit Query's it makes my link just fine, even giving me the complete path to the .png file & the .png on the desktop link, even though the icon itself is no shown in browser.
This is a sample of the source code showing icon names;
<h3 style="background-color: blue; color: white; text-align: center">Click on an icon to create the IDesk link file</h3> <input type="image" name="24x24/places/network-server.png" src="24x24/places/network-server.png" vspace="2" hspace="3" /> <input type="image" name="24x24/places/folder-saved-search.png" src="24x24/places/folder-saved-search.png" vspace="2" hspace="3" /> <input type="image" name="24x24/places/user-home.png" src="24x24/places/user-home.png" vspace="2" hspace="3" /> <input type="image" name="24x24/places/gnome-fs-trash-empty.png" src="24x24/places/gnome-fs-trash-empty.png" vspace="2" hspace="3" />I'm running icewm on unbuntu 9.04. Browser is firefox 3.08. Also Opera, but Opera shows a rectangle with 'image' in it. If I copy the source and insert /home/xxxxxxx/.idesktop/builder/ into
<input type="image" name="24x24/places/user-home.png" src="24x24/places/user-home.png" vspace="2" hspace="3" />
so it looks like this:
<input type="image" name="24x24/places/user-home.png" src="/home/xxxxxxx/.idesktop/builder/24x24/places/user-home.png" vspace="2" hspace="3" />the icon shows o.k. I don't know cgi, but I played around with idesk.cgi but can't figure out how to get the full path to the .png files to show in the html.
Any ideas how I can get the full path to show in the html?
Thank you.
later xxxxxxx
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 07:07:43AM -0500, mrfrank wrote:
> > ATTN:Ben Okopnik > > Just happened to run across the question in Linux Gazette Mar issue about > idesk. Just so happens I finally got idesk up a couple hrs ago using your > info at http://linuxgazette.net/160/okopnik.html > then downloaded your idesk icon configurator. Small problem at this end. > Instead of showing icons, > I get a series of 'Submit Query' in my browser.
This means that the images aren't there to be displayed. In the "Setting up" section, there's a set of instructions that takes care of this; in essence, you need to install the 'gnome-icon-theme' package and to create a link in the .idesktop/builder/ directory called 24x24 that points to the appropriate directory in /usr/share/icons/gnome. Please ensure that this has been done, and that should work.
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