On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 03:41:04PM -0500, David A. De Graaf wrote:
> Icons are taking over the World! In Fedora 21, that is.
> I've always been afraid that the GUI generation would eventually
> make Linux completely unusable, and now they've almost succeeded. :-)
>
> In a few F21 GUI panels the icons are grotesquely large - 1.75 inches
> square on a 15 inch wide monitor. Normal size would be ~0.25 in.
> This makes the panel nearly incomprehensible. This occurs in, eg,
> system-config-printer
> system-config-firewall
> virt-manager
>
> A screenshot is attached of virt-manager running an instance of Centos
> 7 on the Fedora 21 host.
> [No, it's not! GUI's are OK; images of them are too big for this
> list. Sigh...]
> The virt-manager icons are so big that that
> the virtual window cannot be enlarged to a proper size.
>
> A possible clue to the error are the messages in the root window
> following the virt-manager command:
> [root@datwiz ~]
> # virt-manager
> [root@datwiz ~]
> #
> (virt-manager:1994): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error:
> gtk.css:67:18: Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'.
>
> (virt-manager:1994): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error:
> gtk.css:67:20: Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'.
>
I have tracked the problem to left-over configuration files as a
consequence of my usual practice of freshly installing a new Fedora
in alternating root partitions, but retaining the /home partition
unchanged.
The problem was due in some mysterious way to the contents of
~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/
because, when I deleted that directory and restarted Xfce, the icons
returned to normal size. (The directory and contents were recreated.)
That's pretty obscure, hence this report.
Acting on a suggestion from my son, Stuart, to try another user,
I found that a new user account did not have the huge-icon problem.
That led to an exploration of the countless . files in my home
directory. What a mess! Hidden files are an abomination.
It seems that programmers create them willy-nilly but never, ever
remove them. The amount of disk space that's wasted is incredible.
But that's a problem for another day.
Happy New Year, all.
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