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Root Moose

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Registered: 2021-02-09

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XFCE - Applet Button Images/Icons Missing

I've been casually (off-n-on) looking for a solution for this issue but can't seem to find anything.

One of my XFCE installs (both Arch, latest, up to date) seems to have an issue with the icons in some of the apps.

For an example, here is Thunar.

Note the file system navigation buttons to the left of the location bar, above the mouse pointer. This type of thing appears across all the XFCE apps on one host but not the other host.

I did a check of the packages installed on each host and don't see anything obviously different. I've re-installed packages.

I've changed window manager themes (xfwm4), GTK themes, icons, etc. and there is no change there either.

Any insights on what to check?

toz

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Registered: 2011-10-28

Posts: 513

Re: XFCE - Applet Button Images/Icons Missing

First off, make sure your icon theme has symbolic icons for go-up, go-previous, and go-next, or that it inherits from one that does. Icon theme spec is here.

Secondly, make sure that librsvg is installed.

Which icon theme are you using?

Root Moose

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Registered: 2021-02-09

Posts: 2

Re: XFCE - Applet Button Images/Icons Missing

I think there was two problems.

This host did not have librsvg installed. Once I installed that and switched icon theme from Paper to Moka,  Bluecurve, Adwaita, etc. the nav buttons got their images.

However, the Paper icons set (as shown in image above) was still broken. Turns out I did something bone-headed when copying the icon theme over - stuck it in /usr/share/themes instead of /usr/share/icons. Typo in my deploy script. Amazing it worked at all really.

Anyway, fixed now.

Thanks!