Gnome panel and desktop icons mysteriously changed: SOLVED but now is a vnc problem

[CB]

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 01:05, Alfredo Ferrari wrote:
> >
> 
> I have the same exact problem. If I start vncserver *BEFORE* "normal" X,
> the vnc session gets the "right" icons, but the machine screen is showing 
> the "wrong" ones. If X is started before vncserver it is the opposite.
> 
> This problem is new and related to something in Fedora (1 or 2). The same
> machine running RH9 did not show the problem, which appeared only
> after upgrading to FC2 (-> hence I do not know whether it is FC2 specific
> or was already an issue with FC1).
> 
> After a bit of investigation I found that the latter of the X server 
> instances to start, is using the icons inside /usr/share/icons/hicolor 
> instead of the default Bluecurve ones (making hicolor a soft link to the 
> default Bluecurve icon directory fixes the issue, of course this is NOT
> a proper solution). Why this happens I don't know. It seems like
> the first X server ("normal" X or vncserver) is locking some files in the 
> theme which are then no longer available (maybe the explaination is 
> completely different).
> 

Interesting to see that the problem is an FC one rather than inherent to
vnc. Anyway it's not a major practical issue for me now I know what the
cause is.