Can't make picons work on a DM8000 / Dream Elite image

i spent all day with tries - Have a Dream Elite image loaded on a DM8000 - I collected picons from different sources (including mmark's etc.) - latest are 220x132 size transparent picons - put them in /media/hdd/picon folder and issued an "In -s .... " command to have a redirection picon alias folder in /usr/share/enigma2 as recommanded ... i also chmod'ed all folders to 755

... then rebooted my box but no way to have the picons working ! Tried with the "Default HD" skin and with "MetrixDE-FHD" .... no change !

any help appreciated

Downloaded the plugin and activated
Located picons by oktus and downloaded first the Astra 19°2 220x132 bundle
Saw that the plugin created a new picon folder under root to store picons
Issued a new Code : "ln -s /picon /usr/share/enigma2 " to redirect the picon alias under enigma2 to the newly created pîcon folder under root !
restarted my box : no change !!!! picons still not working

I repeated the operations with a different size of picons 100x60 but no change !!!

what am i doing wrong ?

I really need help here... i flashed my Dm8000 with latest Dream Elite Image, and used Default-HD Skin

All is working fine but i can't activate picons... The path i select in setting is /usr/share/enigma2 . I issued appropriate "In -s /picon /usr/share/enigma2" command to create picon folder redirected to appropriate picon directory under root. I tried so many picons (may be 6 attempts) with different sizes (including 220 x 132) and different authors : Oktus, mmark, etc... I also tried Xpicons... I chmod'ed picon folders to 755 ... I just can't make one picon appear

i even changed skin to "MetrixDE-FHD"... no result

i also changed picon folder under /media/hdd/picon and updated the picon path setting accordingly

any hint of what i else i should try ?

not sure i understand your answer... is there a different settings for each specific satellite ?

my question is not about changing picons... my question is that i can' make them work ?

an my focus is Astra 19,2° E and Hotbird 13° E

Yes i tried the LinuxSupport plugin yesterday... I collected oktus picons for Astra 19°2 220x132 bundle... No change - i also tried xpicons from that same plugin menu

let me try your RATS PICONS on 28°2 E... although i don't think the problem is satellite dependant ... where can I find this ?

Do i need to also use Rat's bouquet updater ? or can i stay with my current setting (vHannibal) ? Do you know

I think I am close to understand the problem... I downloaded and executed the plugin...
the tool is STUCK at step "1 - LOOKING FOR YOUR PICONS FOLDER " !!!
yet i have two folders created with name picon
- /usr/share/enigma2 : here i have un alias picon redirecting to /picon created under root
- /media/hdd also containing a folder named picon

yet the plugin is unable to find my picon folder... that's why it is not working (i would think)

I tried upper case (PICON)... no change... the plugin get stuck
I also tried to remove all picon folders from the machine , the plugin displays 7 or 8 error messages like "proc/xxx/.... : No such file or directory ! "... then it freezes and i have to power on/off the box

I just don't understand !!!!

and why the plugin does not create himself the picon folder if he cannot find it ? this is basic programming.... i don't get it and the thing is driving me crazy !

question : Do you remember how you launched the plugin Rat's picon the first time ? who creates the picon folder ?

I just tried "Picon" (only first letter Upper case)... no change

the error message i have has this shape
find : proc/577/task/838/fd/139 : No such file or Directory

I have 5 or 6 of these and then the plugin freezes...

I can't believe this is linked to whether you use a USB stick, hard disk or flash memory but i feel that if i can make this plugin work i will also come back to my manual stuff and it would work as well !

ouf... solved my problem in another forum ! stupid reasons : the picon folder need to me named picon_220x132