Hi , I am a Manjaro Xfce user. I was removing useless icon themes and folder which I had previously installed. While in the process I accidentally deleted the one that was active. Now I am not able to even open any apps nor is my xfce panel appearing. Is there any way I can open the appearance app just so I could change the active icon theme.
You may need to do this with command line (terminal via CTRL-ALT-F2)
Provide Information:
For example. Do you use btrfs with snapshots and timeline ?, Do you have a backup ?
You can launch an application with Alt+F2.
xfce4-appearance-settings
Opening graphical applications from TTY won’t work, unless you start X there first, but that defeats the purpose of switching to TTY…
I am really grateful to the community for the quick response but I tried running xfce4-appearance-settings through xfrun4 ( Alt+F2 ) but as always it just opens and closes as I launch it
Also here is a little bit info on my system
System:
Kernel: 5.15.7-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
root=UUID=23a1d7e2-9556-4229-87c2-bd250d9163a9 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor resume=UUID=59295e2e-0fec-428d-9349-772241c9a051
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.29 info: plank wm: xfwm 4.16.1 vt: 7
dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15g-dr0xxx
v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: HP model: 84A7 v: 80.31 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde
v: F.07 date: 11/21/2018
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 27.4 Wh (100.0%) condition: 27.4/41.0 Wh (66.8%)
volts: 12.8 min: 11.4 model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: Full
Memory:
RAM: total: 7.56 GiB used: 3.56 GiB (47.1%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-8250U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake
family: 6 model-id: 0x8E (142) stepping: 0xA (10) microcode: 0xEA
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB
L3: 6 MiB desc: 1x6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 400/3400 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800
8: 800 bogomips: 28808
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon
art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid
cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est
f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window
hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm
lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae
pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti
pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep sgx smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2
sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust
tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt
xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5917 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce MX110] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: nvidia v: 495.44 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:174e class-ID: 0302
Device-3: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP TrueVision HD Camera
type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-5:4 chip-ID: 05c8:03c7 class-ID: 0e02
serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.2 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.16.1 driver:
loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: nouveau alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa
display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2")
s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142
size: 344x193mm (13.5x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5")
Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:9d71 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.7-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.40 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 4000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_8821ce v: N/A modules: rtw88_8821ce
port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:c821 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Realtek Realtek Bluetooth 4.2 Adapter type: USB driver: btusb
v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-6:5 chip-ID: 0bda:b00a class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci
v: 3.0 port: 6060 bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086:282a rev: N/A class-ID: 0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 207.22 GiB (22.2%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: RSM7 scheme: GPT
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: hp model: DVDRW DA8AESH rev: XH6M
dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r state: running
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 121.07 GiB size: 118.61 GiB (97.97%)
used: 26.36 GiB (22.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A
uuid: 23a1d7e2-9556-4229-87c2-bd250d9163a9
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 489 MiB size: 488 MiB (99.80%)
used: 10.2 MiB (2.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: NO_LABEL
uuid: A3CE-DAD5
ID-3: /home raw-size: 651.93 GiB size: 640.69 GiB (98.28%)
used: 180.85 GiB (28.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 label: N/A
uuid: 10179855-c42b-4b7a-8f62-122c3f3d57ad
ID-4: /home/<filter>/Cloud/Mount/aka-drive raw-size: N/A size: 15 GiB
used: 3.1 GiB (20.7%) fs: fuse.rclone remote: aka-drive:
ID-5: /home/<filter>/Cloud/Mount/athe-drive raw-size: N/A size: 15 GiB
used: 661.8 MiB (4.3%) fs: fuse.rclone remote: athe-drive:
ID-6: /home/<filter>/Cloud/Mount/dropbox raw-size: N/A size: 2 GiB
used: 47.2 MiB (2.3%) fs: fuse.rclone remote: dropbox:
ID-7: /home/<filter>/Cloud/Mount/onedrive raw-size: N/A size: 5 GiB
used: 25.8 MiB (0.5%) fs: fuse.rclone remote: onedrive:
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 30 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 5.59 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 label: N/A
uuid: 59295e2e-0fec-428d-9349-772241c9a051
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 size: 37.25 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A
uuid: c4469971-145a-4032-a062-086ad0a5637a
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 12 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-1:2 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse
driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 98mA chip-ID: 046d:c534 class-ID: 0301
Device-2: 1-4:3 info: Alcor Micro Multi Flash Reader type: Mass Storage
driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 100mA
chip-ID: 058f:6366 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
Device-3: 1-5:4
info: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP TrueVision HD Camera
type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 500mA chip-ID: 05c8:03c7 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Device-4: 1-6:5 info: Realtek Realtek Bluetooth 4.2 Adapter
type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 500mA chip-ID: 0bda:b00a class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 6 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 67.0 C pch: 65.0 C mobo: 27.8 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 288 Uptime: 1h 32m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 249
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 13.0.0 Packages: 1409
pacman: 1379 lib: 367 flatpak: 20 snap: 10 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.12
running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.11
Thank you all for replying
You can try re-installing all packages, it should restore folders/files which came from packages.
Then you must edit the configuration from TTY:
xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/IconThemeName -s <icon_theme_name>
You can find the list of available icon themes with:
ls /usr/share/icons/
ls ~/.icons/
Okay ,So thank you everyone for all your help, so what happened was when I deleted the icon pack it was fixed in that icon pack making all systems reliant on it not able to access any icons causing system wide errors when trying to access the icons. So when I restored it from trash for time being it worked but it again broke , So ultimately when i totally removed the ~/.icons the icons pack got reverted to classic adwaita which saved my ass from a system wide package re-installation .Anyways Thank you to everyone who helped !!
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