Just did update: no icons

Hi,
I just got a notification to update, which I did.
There are now no icons in my start menu or quicklaunch tray.
I only installed LXQT on this last week and it was working really nicely.
It’s a 64bit intel laptop.

Have you done any customization - e.g. icon theme?

Either way it should not influence like you describe - so I did a test - updating a VBoxVM containing an older version of LXQt - and I cannot reproduce the issue.

I had the same problem and was using the Papirus theme.
But after a restart it was alright again.

So, stupid question, did you reboot already?

It was completely default. I build the laptop from the iso on the website a week ago and just installed a few packages, nothing more. Yes I rebooted it.

Have you tried to change the icon theme in the panel settings?

I just had a look at the icon themes.
There are a bunch of Papirus themes: none of them work.
There are three other themes (Adwaita, Highcontrast, Gnome): they all work.
So basically all of the themes except the Papirus ones are working.
Next I had a look in the software installer and searched for “papirus”.
There is a package called “papirus-icon-theme 20210302-1” and another called “papirus-maia-icon-theme 20207002-1” already installed.

The default theming of the LXQt edition use the Papirus theme and the Maia variant is a Manjaro specific variant using green colors for folders etc.

I have been testing this - and I cannot by any means replicate your issue.

Please make a copy of the folder ~/.config - then use the file manager to copy the contents of /etc/skel (including hidden files) to your home - yes I know this will overwrite any changes you may have made but it is to verify if the issue persist after logging out or restarting the system.

I did this.
The icons reverted back to one of the none working ones, which still doesn’t work.
The same after a reboot.
This is what my icon selector thing looks like:-
https://pscan.uk/images/manjaro/icons1.png

There was a bug in kiconthemes 5.80, that made svg icons using kiconthemes not load right.

It’s been fixed upstream with: Fix loading svg icons outside Plasma (FS#69988) · archlinux/svntogit-packages@f4a0e39 · GitHub
But until it gets to your branch, you can downgrade to kiconthemes 5.79.

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downgrade kiconthemes

Downgrading from A.L.A. is disabled on the stable branch. To override this behavior, set DOWNGRADE_FROM_ALA to 1 .
See Downgrading packages - Manjaro Linux for more details.

Available packages:

    1. kiconthemes 5.79.0 1 x86_64 (local)
    1. kiconthemes 5.80.0 1 x86_64 (local)

select a package by number: 1
loading packages…
warning: downgrading package kiconthemes (5.80.0-1 => 5.79.0-1)
resolving dependencies…
looking for conflicting packages…

Packages (1) kiconthemes-5.79.0-1

Total Installed Size: 1.00 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [#################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [#################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [#################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [#################################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space [#################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes…
(1/1) downgrading kiconthemes [#################################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks…
(1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate…
add kiconthemes to IgnorePkg? [y/N] y

Logged out and in again.
All the icons are back :slightly_smiling_face:

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kiconthemes is not part of the default Manjaro LXQt installation.

Then the bug appears to be in kiconthemes package - then your installation is not default - which is why it is impossible for me to replicate the issue.

So your issue here is really an xyproblem where you try to fix an issue but you don’t tell us how you got to the issue.

3 posts were split to a new topic: Installed kicons on LXQt and then no icons

The ISO that I used has this filename:-
manjaro-lxqt-20.2.1-minimal-210130-linux59.iso
md5sum eea61c0b2703f9b3694af3002ad92c9f

packages that I installed after that include:-
Lazarus
Chromium
Thunderbird
Libreoffice
VLC
GParted
Truecrypt
Veracrypt

I suppose that one of those could have pulled it in with it as a dependancy?

You can see what packages depend on kiconthemes by running:
pactree -r kiconthemes

pacman -Qi kiconthemes
Name : kiconthemes
Version : 5.79.0-1
Description : Support for icon themes
Architecture : x86_64
URL : Frameworks - KDE Community Wiki
Licenses : LGPL
Groups : kf5
Provides : None
Depends On : qt5-svg kconfigwidgets kitemviews karchive
Optional Deps : breeze-icons: fallback icon theme
Required By : kwallet kxmlgui
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 1021.96 KiB
Packager : Antonio Rojas arojas@archlinux.org
Build Date : Wed 10 Feb 2021 15:15:12 GMT
Install Date : Sun 21 Mar 2021 20:29:23 GMT
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : No
Validated By : None

pacman -Qi kwallet
Name : kwallet
Version : 5.80.0-1
Description : Secure and unified container for user passwords
Architecture : x86_64
URL : Frameworks - KDE Community Wiki
Licenses : LGPL
Groups : kf5
Provides : None
Depends On : knotifications kiconthemes kservice gpgme
Optional Deps : kwalletmanager: Configuration GUI
Required By : kio
Optional For : chromium vlc
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 2.14 MiB
Packager : Antonio Rojas arojas@archlinux.org
Build Date : Sat 06 Mar 2021 20:43:01 GMT
Install Date : Sat 20 Mar 2021 15:53:21 GMT
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature

If I use the add/remove software and ask it to uninstall kiconthemes I get this:-

Warning: chromium optionally requires kdialog: needed for file dialogs in KDE
Warning: chromium optionally requires kwallet: for storing passwords in KWallet on KDE desktops
Warning: libreoffice-still optionally requires kio: for KF5 KDE desktop integration
Warning: vlc optionally requires kwallet: kwallet keystore
Warning: zensu optionally requires kdialog: Alternative for displaying dialog window

It seems you didn’t install any KDE applications (at least none of the ones you have listed is). But installing some of those applications you marked the checkboxes of optional KDE related dependencies that pulled kiconthemes. So I would say you could safely remove kiconthemes… but better wait for the advice of someone more knowledgeable, as I only used Manjaro for a couple of hours two days ago after all.

I just uninstalled kiconthemes and all the “optionals” that depend on it.
Nothing bad happened.
Thanks all for your help.