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Aky47007

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Registered: 2017-10-08

Posts: 10

Icon Theme is changing automatically

Hi All,

I am facing a problem with the icon theme.
I am using 'Arc' icon theme on my GNOME desktop. But every time I am rebooting my system, few of the icons on the panel like battery icon, sound icon got automatically changed to a different icon (similar to 'Adwaita' icon which is the default icon theme).
So after every reboot, I need to select some other icon theme then again select 'Arc' icon theme.

To get rid of this problem I want to change 'Default' value in org.gnome.desktop.interface/icon-theme. Can anyone help me to change this default value?

Thanks in advance

Aky47007

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Registered: 2017-10-08

Posts: 10

Re: Icon Theme is changing automatically

Temporarily I have added one startup script to change icon theme to a different one and then again selecting 'Arc' as icon-theme. And it's working now

sleep 5
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme 'Adwaita'
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme 'Arc'

But I want a proper solution.

mrunion

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Re: Icon Theme is changing automatically

No idea what the problem is, but it sounds like you may have created a config file as root, but now you are using a "regular" user account to try and change the setting(s) and they don't have permission to write to the config file(s).

Create a new user on your system, then see if the icon changes persist across a reboot. If they do, something is wrong with the config file(s) in your regular user's home folder.

Last edited by mrunion (2018-01-02 19:40:10)

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Aky47007

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Registered: 2017-10-08

Posts: 10

Re: Icon Theme is changing automatically

I was using, let's say user1.  But I had created user2 and deleted user1. And after that, only the issue started occurring.

Aky47007

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Registered: 2017-10-08

Posts: 10

Re: Icon Theme is changing automatically

Thanks mrunion. After your post I have moved particular icon theme folder from /usr/share/icons/ to .local/share/icons/
And that solved the problem.