[SOLVED]Icons for symlinks display differently on different installs

damo · 2014-10-06 16:37:24

I set up my installations so that /home's share data on another partition. Then I make symlinks like documents -> /mnt/data/documents etc

On the laptop, the special folder icons display as desired, but on the desktop the symlinks just display the generic folder.png. It is the same for all themes, whether they are in ~/.icons or /usr/share/icons. Both installations are using Thunar 1.6.3-1

Desktop: 3.16-2-amd64 (sid)

Laptop: 3.14-2-amd64 (jessie)

The only difference I can see is the permissions (why is that?). I've spent hours making icons, and getting it looking good on the laptop, then I copied the theme across to the desktop machine and found the special folders weren't displaying I never noticed before that other themes behave the same.

So my question is: where should I start looking for the reason? Is it a system thing to do with symlinks, or a thunar bug, or gtk issue, or etc??

Last edited by damo (2014-10-07 11:10:53)

ohnonot · 2014-10-06 20:34:38

i think i noticed this myself sometimes, but never gave it much attention.
have you tried changing the permissions?

damo · 2014-10-06 21:19:23

ohnonot wrote:

i think i noticed this myself sometimes, but never gave it much attention.
have you tried changing the permissions?

I've tried it for one folder - no difference - and the drives for each machine are mounted in fstab exactly the same way btw.

ohnonot · 2014-10-07 07:17:14

have a look at $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs (it's there on a standard crunchbang install).

damo · 2014-10-07 11:09:08

ohnonot wrote:

have a look at $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs (it's there on a standard crunchbang install).

Take a bow that man! I hadn't changed the defaults from eg "Documents" to "documents" on that installation :8

ohnonot · 2014-10-07 16:28:32

aah, glad to be of help. O:)

just for the record, the file is created by xdg-user-dirs-update.

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#1 2014-10-06 16:37:24

[SOLVED]Icons for symlinks display differently on different installs

#2 2014-10-06 20:34:38

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