JPilot icon problem

Andrew Robinson awrobinson at cox.net
Wed Jan 14 21:11:36 UTC 2004


Scott Talbot wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 08:35, Andrew Robinson wrote:
>  
>
>>For Fedora, I downloaded the J-Pilot rpm from the J-Pilot web site and 
>>installed it. J-Pilot showed up in the Gnome menu under Office -> More 
>>Office Applications without an icon. When I added it to the task bar, it 
>>was given a generic Gnome icon. Everytime I log in now, I get an error 
>>message: "Failed to load image jpilot.xpm. Details: file not found." I 
>>can find an icon that would be suitable: 
>>/usr/share/pixmaps/jpilot-icon3.xpm. How do I tell Gnome to use that icon?
>>
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>>
>	At the icon in the panel, right click on the j-pilot icon and select
>properties.  Click on the Icon in the properties window, search for
>/usr/share/pixmaps/jpilot-icon3.xpm.
>
>On second thought try renaming the icon file to jpilot.xpm first as it
>might be that simple.  I think probably jpilot told the menu to look for
>the wrong filename, though it's possible that it's looking in the wrong
>place too!
>
>  
>
I tried the renaming trick. It didn't work. Gnome probably still did not 
know where to find it.

The properties trick did work. Gnome gave me a list of icons to choose 
from. The one I picked I think is intended for gpilot rather than 
jpilot, but what the heck. Thanks for the advice!

Andrew Robinson







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