GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 138360
no icons display when running in XFCE
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
run 'nautilus --no-desktop' in an environment other than GNOME (in this case, XFCE4 4.0.4). Rather than the spatial windows coming up with icons representing each folder/file, every icon is the 'blank sheet of paper with a shadow' icon, i.e. absolute basic stored 'cannot find a corresponding icon for this file' icon.
Try running 'gnome-theme-manager' in the background so nautilus can find out what theme to use.
The problem is that nautilus needs gnome-settings-daemon running to display icons, and gnome-settings-daemon won't run in XFce 4 because that has its own X settings manager.
if XFCE has its own settings manager, then it needs to set the Net/IconThemeName setting or something like that. Closing this as NOTGNOME.
*** Bug 139766 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 140930 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***