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:

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/ab6d2203-e4c2-4298-877e-4cfa03af382f.png

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.

wildbus8979,

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

Smorty,

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,
@despotic_machine@lemmy.world avatar

some sort of error message

Having this complete error message would help determine what is going on.

Smorty,

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


<span style="color:#323232;">marty@MartyPC:~$ sudo update-icon-caches
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[sudo] Passwort für marty: 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Usage: /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches directory [ ... ]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">marty@MartyPC:~$
</span>
despotic_machine,
@despotic_machine@lemmy.world avatar

Try:

sudo update-icon-caches /usr/share/icons/*

Smorty, (edited )

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

bbbhltz,
@bbbhltz@beehaw.org avatar

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.

MNByChoice,

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

Smorty,

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

excitingburp,

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

danielfgom,
@danielfgom@lemmy.world avatar

Backup and do a fresh install

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