Icons missing in gnome applications

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Hi there,

Has anyone noticed the new tab icon missing in gnome applications? I’m seeing this in the console application, as well as the gnome web application.

I’ve yet to notice it elsewhere, but I’m still looking around.

If someone’s seen this, have you by chance come up with a fix?

Thank you.

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Do you use GNOME? If not, you will need to install an icon theme such as adwaita-icon-theme.

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I do. And my icons are everywhere else, but here.

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Maybe relevant, in using stylix for my visuals. Just thought of this.

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I had similar issue with random icons missing from GTK apps.
Root cause was incorrect setting for option gtk.iconTheme.name. Instead of Adwaita it was set to non-existing Adwaita-dark.

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Thankyou. This hint just solved one weird case for me. I had no idea the -dark variant had disappeared (probably long ago)

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I just found this post after encountering the same issue: missing icons within GTK applications such as Gnome Files, Pavucontrol, and Ghostty after switching to Stylix for theming in NixOS.

I was able to resolve it by changing my gtk icon theme in my home-manager config as follows:

 # GTK theming settings
  gtk = {
    enable = true;
    #Icon Theme
    iconTheme = {
      package = pkgs.adwaita-icon-theme;
      name = "Adwaita";
      # package = pkgs.kdePackages.breeze-icons;
      # name = "Breeze-Dark";
    };

As you can see, I had to disable/comment out the Breeze icons and use Adwaita icons instead. A quick logout or restart later, the icons were back!

  • Note: I had tried simply installing the Adwaita icon packages in my NixOS system config to make them available, but that still didn’t work, so I had to apply them this way in home-manager to get them back.