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As the title says, some icons, such as "Albums", "Previous", "Next" in Music app, "New Tab" in Console app, and various others in Settings/other apps show a placeholder icon instead of the intended one.
This issue occurred after my fresh install with archinstall. Tried uninstalling then reinstalling gnome and gnome-extra to no avail. I should mention that I was using another distro for a couple of days before I switched to Arch, maybe that could have influenced this (I have a separate /home partition, so that I could keep my files).
I want to know if this is something that just gets fixed in time with pacman -Syu or if I need to fix something.
EDIT May 7th 2025: Found a solution, see below.
Last edited by archerry69x (2025-05-07 10:35:42)
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UPDATE: Installed Arch on another device manually and the problem is gone. In my opinion it's either archinstall's fault or my /home partition had some conflicting files, who knows.
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As expected, it was the configs from the old /home partition conflicting with GNOME. If anybody has this issue in the future (likely from distro-hopping), what you have to do is:
mv ~/.config ~/.config-backup
mv ~/.local ~/.local-backup
mv ~/.cache ~/.cache-backupThen log out and back in. GNOME will regenerate clean versions of everything.
You can manually copy back specific folders from the backups, like browser profiles, game saves, application settings. Don't copy themes, icons, GTK settings or desktop environment configs tho -- they're likely the cause.
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