Why can't Cinnamon find Adwaita anymore?

furrykef · 2024-08-15 08:21:25

When I installed Cinnamon about a year ago, I apparently used a theme called Adwaita. A little while ago I went into Cinnamon's Themes utility and saw that Mouse Pointer, Applications, and Icons were all set to Adwaita. I decided to check what other options I had. For Icons, they were AdwaitaLegacy, breeze, and breeze-dark. I gave AdwaitaLegacy a try. Then I tried to change back…and I couldn't. Adwaita is no longer in the list. Why not? Cinnamon was using it fine until now. (For what it's worth, the list for Mouse Pointer and Applications are both empty.)

I have a package called adwaita-icon-theme installed, and there is a folder for it in /usr/share/themes. I reinstalled adwaita-icon-theme for good measure, but it still doesn't show up in Cinnamon's Themes utility.

Funny0facer · 2024-08-15 21:09:06

This is because of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita- … equests/71

You can change your own file
The file should be located here on your system: /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/index.theme

furrykef · 2024-08-16 04:50:48

Huh…so I was never supposed to use it in the first place?? How very odd. Wish I could remember how I ended up using it. (Maybe it has to do with how I tried GNOME before setting on Cinnamon.)

Anyway, thanks for the help.

Last edited by furrykef (2024-08-16 04:51:25)

Funny0facer · 2024-08-16 05:19:02

the mentioned merge is from 3 months ago. Before that, adwaita was visible like any other theme, too.

I personally think, this patch should be reverted on arch, but that is just my opinion.

There is also an already closed ticket in the arch gitlab https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … -/issues/3

seth · 2024-08-16 08:18:43

https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=dmz
Same theme but unlike adwaita not deliberately broken, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=294254

Edit: don't take this easy - some clients (notably electron/chromium) will crash if they cannot resolve a pointer icon.

Last edited by seth (2024-08-16 08:19:28)

Funny0facer · 2024-08-16 13:13:18

If you want to have them back, I just created my first AUR package that adds the adwaita cursor theme but without "hidden=true" aka AdwaitaNotHidden
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/adwa … not-hidden

PS: Adwaita is kind of the default cursor theme. See https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/an … t-cursors/ . So maybe did never actively choose to use it.

seth · 2024-08-16 13:18:49

Did you click the link in #5 and do you understand that Adwaita is only compatible with "gnome core apps" now?
I'd rather depend on DMZ and add an Adwaita "theme" that simply includes DMZ

Funny0facer · 2024-08-16 13:43:05

I did click it and tried to follow the several references spawned around the forum and landed on https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p2082761
But as I do not have any inconsistencies on my plasma system, I am happy with my solution and wanted to share it.
Prior to that I changed my /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/index.theme but this would revert with the next update.

Last edited by Funny0facer (2024-08-16 13:44:05)

furrykef · 2024-08-17 11:03:43

seth wrote:

https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=dmz
Same theme but unlike adwaita not deliberately broken, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=294254

That's only the mouse cursor, though. The main thing I'm looking for is the icon theme: the stuff that appears in Nemo as well as a few other places.

seth · 2024-08-17 15:16:05

So the adwaita icon theme (sorry, I just guessed this was about the cursors) is now a hard dependency for gtk3/4 but hidden from all desktops resp. can't be configured through their GUI settings… par for the course…

Try /usr/share/icons/Dwarf/index.theme

[Icon Theme]
Name=Dwarf
Comment=FPGC
Example=folder
Inherits=Adwaita
Hidden=false

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Why can't Cinnamon find Adwaita anymore?

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