User Feedback :: Lost Icons and part of desktop

I'm feeling frustrated and somewhat stupid this morning. I was trying to add an icon to my desktop for Gcombust. What I've succeded in doing is losing all the icons for root. javascript:emoticon(' :angry:

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smilie I can still access all applications via menu.
I took an icon from the Gentoo collection and edited the name to reflect gcombust, then copied it to the /damnsmall/.xtdesktop .
Used Scite to create a link file. There are two areas that may have frelled things up:
1) the Command portion of the lnk file. (tried to use [path]gcombust, and simply Command: gcombust
2) the icon file keeps morphing its new name: it went from gcombust.png to gcombust.xpm and at least one other permutation.

I'm getting close to wiping the hdd and starting over with a clean hdd install. Help would be apperciated especially with the Command line in the link file. TIA

I use the the gentoo icons without incident. I don't know why the name would be morphing. The only thing I can tell you is to make sure that the .png name is correct inside the .Ink file. Png files can live without .ink but .ink cannot live without .png, gif, etc...

If you have an .ink file without an associated .png it will make all of your icons disappear. So, right now, if you removed the gcombust.Ink file from .xtdesktop, all of the icons should re-appear. No need to do another HD install!

Good luck

Chris

Thanks. Chris. I'll fire up the editor and see if I can set this critter right. From your explaination, it maybe a case that I shot myself in the feet (again).

Quote (Alisdair Kelly @ Sep. 03 2004,10:34)

Thanks. Chris. I'll fire up the editor and see if I can set this critter right. From your explaination, it maybe a case that I shot myself in the feet (again).

Well, that problem is solved. Now to figure out why apt-get is being mulish.
Any ideas on how to repair apt-get? it is failing to open libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5.so.3.3
Thus, I got more problems.

Quote (Alisdair Kelly @ Sep. 03 2004,11:25)

Quote (Alisdair Kelly @ Sep. 03 2004,10:34)

Thanks. Chris. I'll fire up the editor and see if I can set this critter right. From your explaination, it maybe a case that I shot myself in the feet (again).

Well, that problem is solved. Now to figure out why apt-get is being mulish.
Any ideas on how to repair apt-get? it is failing to open libapt-pkg-libc6.3-libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5.so.3.35.so.3.3
Thus, I got more problems.

It turn out that my loss of the icons was a self inflicted wound. Had a missing lnk file where there was an icon for Gcombust. Took out the icon file and all was as original.

And now for the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey would say...

After doing an extensive google search for my missing libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5.so.3.3 and not really finding a way to fix things, I bite the bullet and nuked my DSL 0.71 hdd install and started anew.

Maybe this time I won't screw things up to the point that a re-install is needed. I have some more editing to do then will be experimenting with CD burning with a differetn front end than Gcombust and a different install method for that new frontend. While I do very much like the dsl extensions, I'm not convinced that they are the best way to go with an hdd installation.

Hopefully everyone will have a safe weekend and for those of us in the States, enjoy Monday off.

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