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kubuntu-default-settings package

Choosing Kubuntu Human icon theme crashes xfce4

Bug #66193 reported by Matthew Caron on 2006-10-15

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #65870: xfce crashes repeatedly after changing icon theme to default. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	kubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xfce4

(1) Open xfce4 settings
(2) Choose UI preferences
(3) Select Kubuntu Human
(4) All of xfce crashes and you are dumped out to the login manager. You can login subsequently, but nothing displays (no panel, no bars, no nothing). The only way to make it work again is to edit the gtk.xml config file and manually change the icon theme to something else.

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Kevin Goldstein (parktownprawn) wrote on 2006-10-16:

Gnome has the same problem

Selecting Kubuntu Human using the gnome-theme selector also causes gnome to crash. On subsequent logins, nothing displays.

One also has to edit

desktop/gnome/interface/%gconf.xml

to make it work again

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Jani Monoses (jani) wrote on 2006-10-17:

similar to bug 65870
The /usr/share/icons/kubuntu/index.theme file should be appended with Directories=
as that field is required by the icon theme spec. This is a cursor them but nonetheless
it makes xfce (and apparently gnome) not crash

Changed in xfce4:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Jani Monoses (jani) wrote on 2006-10-17:

actually renaming the index.theme file to cursor.theme suffices and is arguably a better solution to prevent the cursor them showing up among the icon theme options.