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the program is "gconf-editor" if you can't find it in your menu, but it should be there

 

btw, paul uses gentoo ;) IIRC

 

gconf-editor is standard across all distro's as it's part of GNOME.

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Easy question I'm sure .. .but:

 

How do I reproduce the "old" nautilus behaviour?

left hand bar thingee

no "open in new window" crap

an address bar.

 

P.

Edit>Preferences>Behavior tab

http://bvc.kernow-webhosting.com/theme/ima...lus-browser.png

 

next question:

how do I set an icon theme to be used in nautilus?

those are called stock-icons

/usr/share/icons/theme_name/scalable (or size)/stock

is where they reside however not all show correctly. Years ago someone had the bright idea to have nautilus decide what icons it uses and we ended up with nautilus themes. They are obsolete.

 

This broke stock-icons for the past couple of years and we've had to use iconrc files and icons inside of gtk themes. This is the most accurate way to be sure you get all the stock icons you want but it's extremely tedious. See a gtk theme.....about half have some sort of iconrc and icons in it.

 

Unless this is some secret that has just been relvealed, it appears as though devel are finally fixing broken stock icons in Icon Themes. Check out the new gtk dir in icon themes.

http://bvc.kernow-webhosting.com/theme/ico...3a-icons.tar.gz

http://bvc.kernow-webhosting.com/theme/ico...lueStock.tar.gz

http://bvc.kernow-webhosting.com/theme/ico...lueStock.tar.gz

http://bvc.kernow-webhosting.com/theme/ico...iveStock.tar.gz

 

gnome-theme-manager

or (faster)

gconf-editor>desktop>gnome>interface>icon_theme

of course cli is even faster.

 

If changes do not show up imediately;

killall nautilus

killall gnome-panel

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let me explain my problem a bit clearer :)

 

I'm not using gnome.

I'm using fvwm.

 

I've set the icon theme to smokey-blue for now

if I fire up gnome smokey bue is loaded, and all the correct icons and stuff

if I run nautilus --no-desktop from fvwm, then I get no icons theme :(

 

if I run nautilus then open preferences:// and change my theme, it redraws my desktop, and fvwm loses control of the desktop (kind of)

 

I want to be able to use nautilus --no-desktop and have pretty icons (well any icons would be good)

At the moment I have 1 icon for folders, images, files, .. everything

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