CDE: why no icons?

UNIX AIX
1

Why my cde show no icons?
I have installed

X11.Dt.ToolTalk           7.1.3.15    C     F    AIX CDE ToolTalk Support
  X11.Dt.adt                 7.1.3.0    C     F    AIX CDE Application
  X11.Dt.bitmaps             7.1.0.0    C     F    AIX CDE Bitmaps 
  X11.Dt.compat              7.1.0.0    C     F    AIX CDE Compatibility 
  X11.Dt.helpinfo            7.1.1.0    C     F    AIX CDE Help Files and Volumes
  X11.Dt.helpmin             7.1.0.0    C     F    AIX CDE Minimum Help Files 
  X11.Dt.helprun            7.1.0.15    C     F    AIX CDE Runtime Help
  X11.Dt.lib                7.1.3.15    C     F    AIX CDE Runtime Libraries
                                                   (CDE) 1.0
  X11.Dt.xdt2cde             7.1.0.0    C     F    AIX CDE Migration Tool 
  X11.loc.en_US.Dt.rte       7.1.0.0    C     F    CDE Locale Configuration -
  X11.loc.it_IT.Dt.rte       7.1.1.0    C     F    CDE Locale Configuration -
  X11.msg.en_US.Dt.helpmin   7.1.3.0    C     F    AIX CDE Minimum Help Files -
  X11.msg.en_US.Dt.rte       7.1.3.0    C     F    AIX CDE Messages - U.S.
  X11.msg.it_IT.Dt.helpmin   7.1.3.0    C     F    AIX CDE Minimum Help Files -
  X11.msg.it_IT.Dt.rte       7.1.3.0    C     F    AIX CDE Messages - Italian
2

Did you try logging into different accounts?
Have you installed something and not booted?
When was the last time the system was booted?

3

Rebooted and logged in different accounts,no way

4

Neither using AIX nor CDE, but i had tried alot of different distros & DE/WM's.
Just asking, have you considered there might be something like a cde-icons-theme package?

5

I will search

6

Normally the icons are in /usr/dt/appconfig/icons/
under your "IT" locale.
Also check that your environment was correctly set up by the CDE session manager (the process /usr/dt/bin/dtsession):

echo $XMICONSEARCHPATH
echo $XMICONBMSEARCHPATH
7

I did

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/freeware/sbin:/opt/freeware/bin:/opt/IBM/xlc/13.1.0/bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:$HOME/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/dt/sbin
export XMICONSEARCHPATH=/home/giuseppe/.dt/appconfig/icons
export XMICONBMSEARCHPATH=/home/giuseppe/.dt/appconfig/icons

Noting change
on errorlog i see

tail -f .dt/errorlog
Workspace Manager: Unable to get image SkyDark for workspace ws2.


mer ott 29 16:36:15 2014
Workspace Manager: Unable to get image Paver for workspace ws3.


mer ott 29 16:36:26 2014
Workspace Manager: Unable to read bitmap file Dtxterm.l
8

Don't you have the dtlogin service that provides a graphical login screen and invokes dtsession for the CDE desktop?
The dtsession will set

XMICONSEARCHPATH=/home/giuseppe/.dt/icons/%B%M.pm:/home/giuseppe/.dt/icons/%B%M.bm:/home/giuseppe/.dt/icons/%B:/etc/dt/appconfig/icons/%L/%B%M.pm:/etc/dt/appconfig/icons/%L/%B%M.bm:/etc/dt/appconfig/icons/%L/%B:/etc/dt/appconfig/icons/C/%B%M.pm:/etc/dt/appconfig/icons/C/%B%M.bm:/etc/dt/appconfig/icons/C/%B:/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/%L/%B%M.pm:/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/%L/%B%M.bm:/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/%L/%B:/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/C/%B%M.pm:/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/C/%B%M.bm:/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/C/%B
XMICONBMSEARCHPATH=/home/giuseppe/.dt/icons/%B%M.bm:/home/giuseppe/.dt/icons/%B%M.pm:/home/giuseppe/.dt/icons/%B:/etc/dt/appconfig/icons/%L/%B%M.bm:/etc/dt/appconfig/icons/%L/%B%M.pm:/etc/dt/appconfig/icons/%L/%B:/etc/dt/appconfig/icons/C/%B%M.bm:/etc/dt/appconfig/icons/C/%B%M.pm:/etc/dt/appconfig/icons/C/%B:/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/%L/%B%M.bm:/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/%L/%B%M.pm:/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/%L/%B:/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/C/%B%M.bm:/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/C/%B%M.pm:/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/C/%B

And

DTDATABASESEARCHPATH=/home/giuseppe/.dt/types,/etc/dt/appconfig/types/%L,/etc/dt/appconfig/types/C,/usr/dt/appconfig/types/%L,/usr/dt/appconfig/types/C
9

Is via vnc.
On hpux,via vnc i see all icons