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cody

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Registered: 2021-03-22

Posts: 2

Missing icon in Applications Menu for "Run Program..."

"Run Program..." icon is missing in the Applications menu (Screenshot below). This is on a default Debian 10 Xfce installation.

Environment:

OS: Debian 10 (4.19.0-14-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.171-2 (2021-01-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux)
Xfce: 4.12, distributed by Debian

Last edited by cody (2021-03-22 19:17:07)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,486

Re: Missing icon in Applications Menu for "Run Program..."

Hello and welcome.

The icon being requested by the /usr/share/applications/xfce4-run.desktop file is "gtk-execute". Unfortunately, this icon does not exist in the default Tango icon theme. This has been fixed in recent versions of Xfce.

The easiest way to fix this, is to copy /usr/share/applications/xfce4-run.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications (create the directory if it doesn't exist) and change the "Icon=" line to point to an icon that exists.

For example (in ~/.local/share/applications/xfce4-run.desktop):

Icon=applications-system

The effect should be immediate.

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cody

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Registered: 2021-03-22

Posts: 2

Re: Missing icon in Applications Menu for "Run Program..."

It works like a charm! Thank you so much, ToZ!