next up previous contents
Next: How do I unpack Up: Installation Problems Previous: Installation Problems   Contents

All Mahogany icons show a questionmark

I'm a linuxuser (redhat) who just found Mahogany and really likes it, but I have a problem, I cant get all the widgets to work, the pictures on the buttons and the ones before the mailboxes all appear as an questionmark. Do I need some library to make it look like your screenshot? If you would assist me in this matter I would be very grateful.

It depends how you installed it. If the icon with the questionmark appears, it means that Mahogany didn't find its installation directory with the icons. If you installed the linux version from the .tar.gz with the binary, it should go into /usr/local or a similar place and you should have the icons in /usr/local/share/M/icons. If they are not there, Mahogany cannot find them. If you have installed it in a different location, Mahogany should ask you for the installation ("global Mahogany directory") when you start it for the first time.

If you have compiled it yourself, make sure you do a "make install" or "make install_all" (of which parts might fail, depending on your setup), to install everything in the right place. If you just grabbed the binary of the daily snapshot, you need to have a working Mahogany installation as well or it won't get the icons. You do not need any additional library, Mahogany handles xpm files internally.


next up previous contents
Next: How do I unpack Up: Installation Problems Previous: Installation Problems   Contents
Charlie & 2001-04-19