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Bug #7374
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lightdm shows missing icon after installing mate_install on a gnome2 system without mate/lightdm
Start date:
2016-09-13
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Medium
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needs-triage
Description
After installing lightdm and mate, the document-properties icon shows as a broken icon in lightdm-gtk-greeter. The icon exists.
The workaround to get the icon to display is to remove the icon cache files so they can be regenerated. This command removes all the icon cache files, just in case there are other problematic icons:
sudo find /usr/share/icons/ -name *.cache -exec rm {} \;
logout and lightdm will show the proper icon for document-properties.
Updated by Aurélien Larcher about 7 years ago
I guess we should add this hint in the user documentation.
Thank you!
Updated by Geoff Weiss about 7 years ago
After writing the initial report, I discovered the command gtk-update-icon-cache. Another possible work-around (untested) might be:
sudo find /usr/share/icons -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec gtk-update-icon-cache -f {} \;
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