Getting rid of menu icons in F 12

[sidebrnz]

I've just used preupgrade to take my laptop from F 11 to F 12. One of the things I always do is get rid of the icons on the menus because i neither need nor like them. Before the upgrade, no icons; after, they're back again. I've checked the configuration editor and desktop->gnome->interface->menus_have_icons is unchecked. Checking it and unchecking it has no effect. There are a few other, minor glitches, but I'm taking this one thing at a time, both to keep from confusing the issue and because it's not my main computer.

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

The gconf keys are mentioned in

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/releas...Fedora_Desktop

[sidebrnz]

Yes. I know. I've already set them through the configuration editor as I described in great detail in my first post. Do you have any suggestions as to why gnome is ignoring them?

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

Quick check. What happens when you add a NEW user and login?

[sidebrnz]

Good question. I fired up the lapdog and checked: the menus have icons and the keys are unchecked in the configuration editor, just like in my main user. Also, if it means anything, sometimes the screenlets I have set to start at login do, sometimes only one does, most of the time none. And, gDeskCal doesn't "want" to start, even though it's also in startup apps. Don't know if it's related but I thought I'd mention it. (If not, don't worry; I can deal with it later, in a different thread to keep things isolated.)

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

You might want to file bug reports in http://bugzilla.redhat.com. I haven't seen anyone come up with this issue so far and I suspect is it something local in your system.

[sidebrnz]

I'm a tad reluctant to go that far, unless others report the same thing. As you say, it may well be something odd about my system. I think I'll check over at the gnome forum, although there's very little traffic there.

[AdamW]

as it happens I've long configured my system not to have icons in menus, but they mysteriously started showing up on the foot menu during f12 cycle. *other* menus - within apps - still don't have icons, but the system menus do. Haven't yet been able to figure out how to make it stop.