Re: Disappearing Icons

David Mihm (davemann@the-site.dyn.ml.org)
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:30:41 -0500 (CDT) 

On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Brian E. Seppanen wrote:

> I'm terribly new to AfterStep and only slightly more experienced using
> Linux, so be kind.  I'm running the RedHat 5.1 version of AfterStep
> 1.4.5.3.   

	Suggestion: upgrade via rpm with one from either the
ftp.afterstep.org site or ftp.the-site.dyn.ml.org (my pseudo mirror).

> What's happened is that the AfterStep Icon, the Clock Icon
> and the Load Icon are now black boxes for my user account.    There's
> nothing there.  

	I am pressuming that by these Icons you are referring to those
in the Wharf(?).  Are you running out of colors - check the console where
you started AS or the term you are grabbing console messages.  Are they
still gone if you "recycle/restart" AS?  If it's colors, try running with
the 8bpp base file and using 8bpp icons.  There's a script that will
convert icons to less colors in the icons/ dir., as well as an 8bpp/ tree
with icons (pressuming the RH AfterStep = Official AfterStep).

> The other thing is that whenever I try to select
> something say for instance Netscape.  Nothing happens.  No apps will
> load.  To add an additional level of wierdity to the situation: it only
> affects user accounts.  I can run After Step fine using root.  

	When you say running AS as root is fine, does this mean that
Netscape and other apps start?  Do you have Netscape and these other apps
- what does "which netscape" say as user/root?  Do you have the Netscape
variables set up - NPX_PLUGIN_PATH= and [MOZILLA_HOME= (heh, I don't have
this last one set :)] ? Here's mine:

	$ which netscape
	/usr/local/bin/netscape
	$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/netscape
	/usr/local/bin/netscape -> /usr/local/netscape/netscape
	$ ls -l /usr/local/netscape/netscape
	-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel <size> <date> /usr/local/netscape/netscape
	$ echo $NPX_PLUGIN_PATH
	/usr/local/netscape/plugins

	Verify that the permissions to the directories/ allow user access
and execution privileges.

> Maybe I
> should add that I'm using this as a desktop pc and only have one other
> user account.  I hope that's enough information, but I'd really
> appreciate any help that is offered.
<M$ stab>

	Oh, well here's your problem, you'll have to purchase the
Linux Plus pack - just kidding, makes no difference.

</M$ stab>
> thanks,
> Brian Seppanen

HTH
___________________________________________________________________
d a v i d  @  m i h m                          reality.sys corrupt!
davemann-at-ionet-dot-net                     reboot universe(y,n)?
(www||ftp)the-site.dyn.ml.org/                          ICQ:4251923
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Key fingerprint =  E4 90 15 ED E5 9F 18 8A  B0 CC FF 68 61 36 4A 6F


--
   WWW:   http://www.afterstep.org/
   FTP:   ftp://ftp.afterstep.org/
   MAIL:  http://wormhole.eosys.com/mailing-lists/AfterStep-Info.html

   To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail afterstep-request@eosys.com