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.

    • Smorty [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      4·
      10 months ago

      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·
    10 months ago

    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.

      • bbbhltz@beehaw.org
        1·
        10 months ago

        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·
          10 months ago

          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·
            10 months ago

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

              • bbbhltz@beehaw.org
                1·
                10 months ago

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

  • excitingburp@lemmy.world
    2·
    10 months ago

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