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Desktop icons not loading (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 9 months ago by Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I've had this issue for a while now, since I thought I could fix it myself. Almost all my programs have lost their icon image, which is not fixable by applying a different icon theme unfortunately. Just installed the Reversal icon pack to test that. My settings are attached here, sorry for the german:

I am assuming this is due to some of the weird behaviour I have had for some days months ago. Gnome would just not load and instead show me an error screen. So I had to uninstall gnome entirely, then reinstall it and that magically fixed it, but my icons were gone.

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[–] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Aside: You don't ever need to apologise for your native language 😊

[–] vorlaut_boy@feddit.de 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

even germans?

[–] KrokanteBamischijf@feddit.nl 6 points 9 months ago

Especially Germans, and your cousins who live in the swamp next door.

We can't help the fact our languages just arent't that elegant, no need to apologize for it.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Try running update-icon-caches as root and restarting GNOME.

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Maybe this package isn't installed either, since I get some sort of error message: Usage: /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches directory [ ... ] I tried assigning some directory to it like this: sudo update-icon-caches /usr/share/icons But this didn't change anything either.

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Somehow it might be possible the adwaita-icon-theme package was removed and not reinstalled.

You could also try running dconf reset -f /org/gnome/ and rebooting to see if that helps.

[–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That command screams for a backup 😬

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yikes. Something is missing. Is this Debian? You could swing by their forums or IRC and get sorted out fast. I'm sure there is a dpkg command that fixes this up. As for the icons, there is definitely a missing package related to adwaita or some lingering config file needs to be reset to defaults.

[–] lupec@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure they meant you probably should've suggested a backup or given a heads-up of some sort before running the command you brought up, since one would presumably lose all settings previously stored in dconf and that's quite the extreme measure

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For Gnome settings? I suppose you could backup everything. It isn't removing all dconf settings, just gnome, which is broken in this case.

[–] lupec@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ah, I'd missed the namespace somehow. Fair enough!

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago

No. You're right. I should have added a bold warning that it will reset gnome back to defaults too.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Have you recently fixed another issue? Perhaps run out of disk space during an update?

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago

Naw, I still have a good 100 GB left on my storage.

[–] excitingburp@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Try running your file manager or something else that displays icons from the terminal, it may log error messages.

[–] danielfgom@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Backup and do a fresh install