Icons missing from launcher, system settings, folders

Question

Various icons from launcher are missing. The first one is from Home folder menu the second from Terminal the last one from Desktop Switcher. This happened after I upgraded to 11.10 from 11.04. I have created a New (Untitled Folder) folder in my desktop and the icon is missing too. The same occurs in System Settings menu too. Some icons like Appearance, Keyboard Layout are missing too. Sorry but I can't post a screenshot due to my reputation.

Any suggestions?

Solution 1

This can happen if you used a different Icon theme before upgrading for example Faenza Icon Theme.

To revert to one of the original Ubuntu-mono Icon themes, you need to install gnome-tweak-tool to do it in a simple way. After installation start the tool go to Theme, and change the Icon setting from the dropdown menu back to the original theme ubuntu-mono-light/dark. In case you want to have back the old theme reinstall it as you did the first time you used it.

Solution 2

Elaborating what was said in above answers. What worked for me was that I had used MyUnity to tweak the GUI, namely the "theme" section for "icons", setting this back to default (several worked actually) fixed the problem for me.

Comments

[some.birdie]

Τhank you Veet Moha!!! It worked!!! Sadly I can't vote up due to my bad reputation :)

[binW]

@GiannisRizos: I will upvote this answer for you but plz, if this answer solved your problem, accept the answer first

[l0b0]

This didn't work for me, but it seems sudo apt-get install --reinstall unity-asset-pool and a reboot worked.

[Tom Carchrae]

you can also use the myunity tool which does not require as many dependencies as gnome-tweak-tool : uielinux.org/myunity

[NoBugs]

If that were the case why does this happen intermittently?