Firefox has a X icon? [FIXED!]

[Aldrik]

Hi again

Ok I've installed firefox following the FirefoxAMD64FlashJava wiki guide but when launched it has a X icon?

I've tried making symbolic links from the default.xpm to /usr/local/firefox32/chrome/icons/default/ and in ~/.mozilla/firefox/chrome/icons/default/ (main-window.xpm & default.xpm) but it never finds them?

Noob out.

[ctos]

Re: Firefox has a X icon?

I downloaded firefox today and mine seems to have been given an icon that looks like a globe, very blue. But you can change your icon (if this is what you mean). Go to the K menu, and find the item, right-click it, select "edit item", and then click on the picture on the item edit dialog box. Another box will come up and you can pick a different icon.

[Aldrik]

Re: Firefox has a X icon?

I can & have set the kmenu icon fine it's just in the program window it's self and also in the taskbar (KDE Panel).

It's not a bit deal & I have now got used to it, but would like to know if anyone knows a fix.

(I should prob post of the firefox forums.)

[bforbes]

Re: Firefox has a X icon?

I have exactly this same problem. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?

[mchuskie]

Re: Firefox has a X icon?

Hmm... looks like X can't find the right icon to display, so it's using the default. My guess would be that something in the 32-bit code support forgets about the icon, though I can't really say.

[kubicle]

Re: Firefox has a X icon?

Does the icon show when you launch firefox with:

firefox --icon firefox

If not, the firefox icon is probably missing...if yes, it's most likely a firefox bug.

[bforbes]

Re: Firefox has a X icon?

Does the icon show when you launch firefox with:

firefox --icon firefox

If not, the firefox icon is probably missing...if yes, it's most likely a firefox bug.

No, that command doesn't change it. The icon is in the firefox/icons directory, here's the list:

document.png
mozicon128.png
mozicon16.xpm
mozicon50.xpm

I tried renaming them in various ways, that didn't work.

[Aldrik]

Re: Firefox has a X icon?

Just to let you know bforbes I have still not found a fix for this.

Other strange things I've noticed with FF is if launched/run from Konsole it dose not use my colour scheme (dose from kmenu).

Also it always has ugly horizontal separators that cant be removed using userChrome.css.  Is FF supposed to use my kde style (plastik) or is it supposed to look like windows 98? (quick google shows mine is just #$@% looking)



PS. I also had a ugly/default cursor when it was over the FF window but I fixed that ages ago from another post that's somewhere on this forum.

[Aldrik]

Firefox no longer has ugly horizontal separators!

Ok have fixed my/the problem with the horizontal separators (can also be removed with userChrome.css now) & colour scheme loads from Konsole now too. (altho still do not have nice plastik style ui)

What I did was download the i386 package from http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/kd...engines-gtk-qt

Extract it (dpkg -x) and copy the libqtengine.so/.la files to /usr/lib32/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/



PS. Sorry for going off topic

[bforbes]

Re: Firefox has a X icon?

I use a Firefox theme instead of a KDE one, but I'm glad you worked out how to do it. If I ever decide to switch I'll use your method.

Do you remember what your thread about the ugly cursor was called? I can't find it.

[sense]

Re: Firefox has a X icon?

Aldrik,

Have you been able to resolve the icon issue yet? I am getting the same thing and find it quite annoying. Maybe I am being petty, but I am so used to it for quick identification of the app on the task bar.... I keep looking for Fx when it is right in front of me.

[kubicle]

Re: Firefox has a X icon?

You should be able to work around this by calling firefox with the '--icon' option mentioned in my earlier post.

if

firefox --icon firefox

wont work, there isn't a 'firefox' icon in your system icons (in /usr/share/icons/...)

If so you can provide a full path to an icon, for example:

firefox --icon /path/to/the/firefox/icon/ofmychoice.png

[Aldrik]

Re: Firefox has a X icon?

Nope have not had any luck so far !sense....

kubicle I gave that another go (soz forgot to post last time) and it dosen't work here.

Anyother ideas?

[kubicle]

Re: Firefox has a X icon?

kubicle I gave that another go (soz forgot to post last time) and it dosen't work here.

Dang, sorry for that, couldn't playtest it as I don't have firefox installed...should have assumed it might not work that well with a gtk app :P

[Aldrik]

Re: Firefox has a X icon?

OK I'd worked out how to fix this icon problem at last!

Do the following commands in konsole/terminal...
$ sudo -i
$ sed 's:/usr/lib/:/usr/lib32/:' < /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders > /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders.32
Then press CTRL+D to logout of root

And edit you launch script as follows... (replacing swiftfox with firefox32 if needed)

#!/bin/sh 
export GTK_PATH="/usr/lib32/gtk-2.0"
export PANGO_RC_FILE="/etc/pango32/pangorc"
export GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE="/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders.32"
cd "/usr/local/swiftfox/"
linux32 ./swiftfox $@