No mime icons Fluxbox + Nautilus

[JohnT]

Running Gnome 2.6 on its own Nautilus runs fine. but when I'm in Fluxbox and call Nautilus it only shows the default icon...no mime-types. Dug into gconf and found nothing relavent. My suspicion is in the Fluxbox menu config for calling Nautilus with mime icons...as its setup I just use.."nautilus". Any ideas?

[rbrimhall]

No ideas but the same problem in both Fedora and now Slackware... although it seems like with gnome 2.4 you could launch gnome apps and pass an option to ignore gconf settings but I don't remember what it was... and now I see that this post is fairly unhelpful, huh?

[JohnT]

Thats just the problem..there are no gconf settings applicable that I can discern that help. It's fine in Gnome...just in Fluxbox...it has to be the command for calling Nautilus from the Flux-menu to show mime-type icons when started. .:confused:
is there some way that Flux needs a hook into mime-sharing?

[rbrimhall]

you could always run the gnome-settings-daemon from within fluxbox... not a solution but a possible workaround?

[JohnT]

Originally posted by lupin_the_3rd
you could always run the gnome-settings-daemon from within fluxbox... not a solution but a possible workaround? Thanks, but thats an option I rather steer away from, but thanks anyway.

[j79zlr]

I don't think there is a way around it JohnT, I use this startup script:

#!/bin/sh
#load this to have nautilus and other gtk2 apps look ok
GSDPID=`pidof gnome-settings-daemon`
if [ -z $GSDPID ]; then
/usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon &
fi

<editted script slightly, use zero byte instead of == operator>

[JohnT]

All my other Gnome apps are OK. <sigh>Thanks for the script though j79zlr...that will do it, but I can't help but wonder why that has changed. Something to do with the new Nautilus..no doubt. If someone comes across another way let me know.

[j79zlr]

It was a change in Nautilus in 2.6, not sure why, but with that script it does allow you to use the gnome themes in you GTK apps too, they look prettier :)

[JohnT]

prettier :eek:

[j79zlr]

:mad:

ah well