On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 15:01 +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > Peter B. Steiger wrote: > > I can answer myself, since a little experimentation turned up the answer > > I was looking for. I asked: > > > >> When I launch X with an alternative wm like fluxbox, are there other > >> services I need to launch manually so Gnome applications can find > > their > >> respective icons? > > > > That would be gnome-settings-daemon, which amusingly enough is in the > > much-disputed libexec path because ordinarily the end user should not > > need to manually launch it. > > That makes sense to me. I launch the gnome-settings-daemon when I start > openbox because then my themes show up correctly in gtk2 apps like > firefox, thunderbird and ROX. I didn't make the connection with this > discussion about evolution because I don't use evolution. > > Andy
nowerdays it looks like xfce can do this for you (if asked) -- H CUH Rainer Peter Feller H -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
