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EdwinKM

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Registered: 2023-01-28

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XFCE: Thunar desktop icons broken

Anyone tips how to debug this problem. My (thunar) based desktop icons are broken, for example: "Trash" and "Home". Shortcuts for textfiles (Kate) are working fine.

If i use the start menu i can start Thunar just fine.

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: XFCE: Thunar desktop icons broken

Hello and welcome.

What exactly do you mean by "broken"? Also what distro and version of Xfce are you running?

If your distro has an ~/.xsession-errors log file, perhaps post back its contents.

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EdwinKM

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Registered: 2023-01-28

Posts: 3

Re: XFCE: Thunar desktop icons broken

Yeah, i was not clear enough. Broken is: it does not do anything when double-clicking the icon.

I am using Suse Thumbleweed witch latest packages installed. The "about" only tells xfce 4 and not subversions.

Can not find the mentioned logfile.

That said. It seems Thunar related and long time ago i needed to compile it myself to verify a bug report. Tried to uninstall and reinstall thunar but the thunar about still mentioned 4.17.7git-d34837e2. That is probably not the official version and hopefully some other updates broke something. I have to find my old notes/bugreport because it was also not easy to actually use a own compiled version.

EdwinKM

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Registered: 2023-01-28

Posts: 3

Re: XFCE: Thunar desktop icons broken

Ok undone the manually compiled version: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/i … note_40016

Probably not useful for other members.

Actual steps done:

edwin@linux-5q3o:~/temp> thunar -q /usr/local/bin/thunar

edwin@linux-5q3o:~/TEMP/thunar/thunar> sudo make uninstall


linux-5q3o:~ # zypper remove thunar
linux-5q3o:~ # zypper install thunar thunar-plugin-archive


edwin@linux-5q3o:~> which thunar
/usr/bin/thunar

edwin@linux-5q3o:~> thunar
thunar: symbol lookup error: thunar: undefined symbol: xfce_gtk_handle_tab_accels


cd ~/TEMP/thunar/
cd libxfce4util && sudo make uninstall && cd ..
cd xfconf && sudo make uninstall && cd ..
cd libxfce4ui && sudo make uninstall && cd ..
cd exo && sudo make uninstall && cd ..