Re: pkg/59660: x11/xfce4-desktop no icons in XFCE4 desktop

[Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost>]

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From: Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/59660: x11/xfce4-desktop no icons in XFCE4 desktop
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2025 07:58:45 +0200

 El 19/9/25 a las 13:15, ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost escribió:
 >> Number:         59660
 >> Category:       pkg
 >> Synopsis:       x11/xfce4-desktop no icons in XFCE4 desktop
 >> Confidential:   no
 >> Severity:       non-critical
 >> Priority:       medium
 >> Responsible:    pkg-manager
 >> State:          open
 >> Class:          sw-bug
 >> Submitter-Id:   net
 >> Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 19 11:15:00 +0000 2025
 >> Originator:     Ramiro Aceves
 >> Release:        NetBSD 10.1
 >> Organization:
 >> Environment:
 > NetBSD netbsd-raspa4 10.1 NetBSD 10.1 (GENERIC64) #0: Mon Dec 16 13:08:11 UTC 2024  mkrepro%mkrepro.NetBSD.org@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/GENERIC64 evbarm
 >> Description:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I have a problem in my XFCE4 desktop on my raspberrypi 4 that occurs since several months, I do not remember in what pkgsrc Quarter it stopped working. I cannot get launchers icons in Desktop. No icons shown, even though there are files in Desktop directory that worked before:
 > 
 > 
 > netbsd-raspa4$ ls -lh
 > total 771B
 > -rwxr-xr-x  1 ramiro  users  139B Apr  4 16:02 GNURADIO.desktop
 > drwx------  3 ramiro  users  512B Nov  9  2024 Old Firefox Data
 > -rw-r--r--  1 ramiro  users  120B Sep 18 12:39 firefox128.desktop
 > 
 > netbsd-raspa4$
 > 
 > 
 > netbsd-raspa4$ ps ax | grep xfde
 >   8962 pts/1  Sl      0:02.18 xfdesktop --sm-client-id 11c0a801cb000175819052600000023670000
 >     46 pts/2  R+      0:00.00 grep xfde
 > netbsd-raspa4$
 > 
 > xfdesktop is running on the background as it should. "xfdesktop --reload" or stopping and re-running xfdesktop does not fix the situation.
 > 
 > Days ago  I installed a fresh NetBSD 10.1 and XFCE4 in a AMD64 Intel Nuc machine with the same failure, so it is not a problem of old XCFE4 configuration files lying around.
 > 
 > Desktop icons configuration is set to "icons launchers and files" in Desktop configuration screen. So it should work but it doesn't. On the other hand, "icons of minimized applications" setting do work as expected and icons appear on the desktop for minimized applications.
 > 
 > Problem is the same in NetBSD amd64
 > 
 > Any help will be appreciated.
 > 
 > Regards.
 > Ramiro.
 > 
 >> How-To-Repeat:
 > Just try to create launchers in desktop. Also existing ones in ~/Desktop directory  do not appear.
 >> Fix:
 > I do not know.
 > 
 
 
 
 Hi, just a bit more information. When running xfdesktop with debug 
 enabled, it shows the error preventing displaying icons:
 
 
 
 netbsd-nuc$ xfdesktop -e
 
 (xfdesktop:7880): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: 07:45:00.420: 
 cannot open directory /usr/pkg/share/gvfs/remote-volume-monitors: Error 
 opening directory â??/usr/pkg/share/gvfs/remote-volume-monitorsâ??: No such 
 file or directory
 DBG[xfdesktop-common.c:502] xfdesktop_debug_set(): debugging enabled
 DBG[xfce-desktop.c:975] update_backdrop_workspace(): 
 new_active_workspace -1, new_backdrop_workspace -1
 DBG[xfce-desktop.c:1083] xfce_desktop_set_single_workspace_number(): 
 single_workspace_num now 0
 DBG[xfce-desktop.c:975] update_backdrop_workspace(): 
 new_active_workspace -1, new_backdrop_workspace -1
 
 
 ** (xfdesktop:7880): CRITICAL **: 07:45:00.682: Unusable 
 XfceDesktopIconStyle: 2.  Unable to display desktop icons.
 
 
 DBG[xfce-desktop.c:975] update_backdrop_workspace(): 
 new_active_workspace -1, new_backdrop_workspace 0
 DBG[xfdesktop-backdrop-renderer.c:644] xfdesktop_backdrop_render(): 
 loading image /usr/pkg/share/backgrounds/xfce/xfce-x.svg
 DBG[xfce-desktop.c:975] update_backdrop_workspace(): 
 new_active_workspace 0, new_backdrop_workspace 0
 DBG[xfdesktop-backdrop-renderer.c:644] xfdesktop_backdrop_render(): 
 loading image /usr/pkg/share/backgrounds/xfce/xfce-x.svg
 DBG[menu.c:74] menu_populate(): show desktop menu icons TRUE
 
 (xfdesktop-settings:5466): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: 
 07:45:08.164: cannot open directory 
 /usr/pkg/share/gvfs/remote-volume-monitors: Error opening directory 
 â??/usr/pkg/share/gvfs/remote-volume-monitorsâ??: No such file or directory
 
 Regards.
 Ramiro.