[oXygen-user] oh where oh where has my oXygen gone?

[Syd Bauman]

  Adrian Buza
  From the support site:
  "Re-install the whole tree"
  Now in my dash
  Is an icon bright
  So oXygen's easy for me

[Yes, that is just a continuation of the first post's spoof. BTW, I
got the original lyrics from
http://www.kidsongs.com/lyrics/where-oh-where-has-my-little-dog-gone.html.]


OK, finally got into the office with enough time to re-install making
sure that the "Create symlinks" box was checked, and presto! -- it
worked. Thank you.

As for fixing the grey icon in the switcher, if it starts to really
bother me, I may try the Java 7 bit. But at the moment I'm content to
just wait for oXygen 15. (It's not a problem at all when it's the
only application represented by a grey question mark icon -- it gets
to be a pain only when there are other applications that also are so
represented. That hasn't happened to me much.)

Thanks again.

> When you install Oxygen on Linux (Ubuntu or otherwise) there is a
> step during the installation wizard that mentions the creation of
> symlinks. Make sure that this option is enabled because the same
> option creates the .desktop files from the installation folder.
> 
> 1) and 2) My guess is you unchecked the option "Create symlinks"
> (default enabled) during the installation.
> 
> 3) You could do that, but I would recommend simply reinstalling it
> in the same folder (you will be prompted to uninstall the current
> installation) and letting the installer create the symlinks.
> 
> 4) There are some known issues with the icons in Ubuntu 12 (and
> Gnome 3 in general). One of the problems is the one you describe
> with the missing icon. Another issue is that there doesn't seem to
> be a way to set an icon of an appropriate resolution for the Java
> application (at least with Java SE 6). Hopefully Java 7 will
> resolve these problems. We are still testing Oxygen with Java 7 and
> we will most likely bundle it with v15 of Oxygen. If you'd like,
> you can install and use Java SE 7 with Oxygen instead of the
> bundled Java SE 6 from the Oxygen kit. You can rename the 'jre'
> folder from the Oxygen installation folder and Oxygen will pick up
> Java from either JAVA_HOME or the PATH environment variable.
> 
> Let me know if you need further assistance.