title: Restoring menu icons in the Gnome Shell link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/restoring-menu-icons-in-the-gnome-shell/ author: phil2nc description: post_id: 9080 created: 2014/12/18 20:40:47 created_gmt: 2014/12/19 01:40:47 comment_status: closed post_name: restoring-menu-icons-in-the-gnome-shell status: publish post_type: post

Restoring menu icons in the Gnome Shell

Sometime right before I upgraded to Fedora 21 all my menu icons disappeared. This was most noticeable in Firefox, where the bookmark folder icons were replaced by sterile white space. A solution follows. I had to rummage around to find this earlier post (based on this original forum thread by someone a lot smarter than me) for the fix. [code lang="bash" gutter="false"] gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides "{'Gtk/ButtonImages': <1>, 'Gtk/MenuImages': <1>}" [/code] This kludge takes the place of the old dconf property "menus-have-icons" that was removed by upstream a few versions ago. This has to be done for each user individually, it can't be applied once to the system and made effective for everyone by default. My guess is that we're on borrowed time with this particular option, and I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't removed in an upcoming release.

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