c/linux · by Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2y

Desktop icons not loading

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 · 28 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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

vorlaut_boy@feddit.de · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)

even germans?

KrokanteBamischijf@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 2y

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.

Thorned_Rose@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y

Wut?

wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 2y (5 replies)

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

Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 2y (4 replies)

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.

despotic_machine@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)

This is all what shows up. Heres my complete terminal output:

marty@MartyPC:~$ sudo update-icon-caches
[sudo] Passwort für marty: 
Usage: /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches directory [ ... ]
marty@MartyPC:~$

despotic_machine@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 2y

Look at the comment I made above. I already tried that. EDIT: I almost didn't see the star, sorry

MNByChoice@midwest.social · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y

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

excitingburp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

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

danielfgom@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Backup and do a fresh install