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ngaba

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Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 18

[SOLVED] System upgrade broke the rendering of svg icons in GTK apps

I post two screenshots: one from Evince and one from Xournal++. As you see, most icons are not rendered correctly; I get gtk-missing-image icon, despite the fact that these icons are installed with the apps (pacman -Ql lists a tons of icons for Xournal++). Moreover, the app icons are also missing from xfce taskbar for Xournal++ (and from xfce menu for both apps), as you can see.
Screenshot #1 (Xournal++)
Screenshot #2 (Evince)

Any idea on this? It seems the bug is not related to GTK themes or icon themes, this occurs with any theme.

Last edited by ngaba (2026-05-29 13:37:54)

ngaba

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 18

Re: [SOLVED] System upgrade broke the rendering of svg icons in GTK apps

I replaced the package gdk-pixbuf2-noglycin to gdk-pixbuf2 which solved the problem.

(I don't even know what is glycin, and why was that AUR package installed.)

Last edited by ngaba (2026-05-29 13:38:12)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] System upgrade broke the rendering of svg icons in GTK apps

You probably lacked librsvg-noglycin, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&K=noglycin
glycin uses a bubblewrap'ed process to load an image - you'll have avoided it because either
1. there used to be a bug where it left stale processes behind
2. it lacks support for some image (notably arithmetic jpeg encodings)
3. you ran into conflicts between bubblewrap and other sanbox mechanisms (firejail, browsers, disabled unprivileged namespaces, …)

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