Thanks for this, Dustin. Since Cinnamon plays nicer with the 22x22 version, perhaps the Cinnamon desktop team has a way of making this default?
Pidgin + Cinnamon are a fairly popular combination, I'm sure others will benefit from your investigation. -Tres On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Dustin DeVries <dustin.devr...@gmail.com>wrote: > For anyone having trouble with the Pidgin icon disappearing in Cinnamon in > the system tray, I was able to fix it using the following hack: > > As root (or sudo) from a terminal window: > > cd /usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/tray/hicolor > mv 16x16 16x16old > ln -s 22x22 16x16 > > Then restart pidgin. > > This essentially makes pidgin use the 22x22 icons instead of 16x16 icons. > > I was suspicious that the icon size wasn't right for the container, and > that perhaps that was causing the image to get scrolled off the menu. I > don't know if that's exactly the problem, but the status icon in the tray > does seem to move vertically over time and then eventually just disappears. > By setting it to 22x22 (again at least for me, and I've verified this on > two different systems running Cinnamon), the icon stays put in the tray and > doesn't move around. > > Hope this helps. > > _______________________________________________ > Support@pidgin.im mailing list > Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: > http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > -- - tres.finocchi...@gmail.com
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