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marietto

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Registered: 2021-12-28

Posts: 1

Icons gone away everywhere : gtk-update-icon-cache no theme index file

Hello,

I've installed xfce4 on devuan 4 armhf on my Arm Chromebook. From a certain point,I don't know when and why,every icon is disappeared from the desktop ; I would like to fix the problem.

If I look inside the directory /usr/share/icons,I see the following sub-directories :

Adwaita ; Deepsea ; Oxygen_Blue ; Tango ; default ; locolor ; Breeze_Snow ; HighContrast ; Oxygen_White ; breeze ; gartoon ; oxygen ; DMZ-Black ; KDE_Classic ; Oxygen_Yellow ; breeze-dark ; gnome ; yasis ; DMZ-White ; Oxygen_Black ; Oxygen_Zion ; breeze_cursors ; hicolor

I have also installed kde 5,but I don't use it,since it is slower than xfce.

In a old post I've read that the problem can be fixed giving the following command :

gtk-update-icon-cache --force /usr/share/icons/hicolor

unfortunately it does not work. It gives the following further error : no Theme index file.

At this point it became too technical for me to fix this problem and I've decided to ask help.

Last edited by marietto (2023-08-06 21:17:30)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: Icons gone away everywhere : gtk-update-icon-cache no theme index file

Hello and welcome.

Check to see if the xfdesktop process is running? If not, start it up in a terminal window to see if it generates an error message.

If it is running, make sure you have icons enabled (Desktop Settings > Icons > Icon Type setting) - make sure its not set to "None".

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