Application Icon not Showing on Gnome

Hello, i was just making my custom application icon for a ppsspp game i added into lutris, but after creating an application menu shortcut, its shown as a gear even though it shouldnt.


Is there a way to fix that?

That doesn’t even look like Gnome. It looks more like LXDE if you ask me.

its gnome with dash to panel and dynamic transparency - and now added papirus icons - i had the flatpak before (i believe) i still have the issue though.
Newest Gnome available on Arch, will try kde if the issue persists and its only my pc which does dumb things.

I’ve managed to reproduce that, custom icons are not registered until next Gnome Shell restart. After the next restart, everything is fine.

Also, note that it’s the icon that is used for the shortcut, not the banner. What you are showing in the lutris window is the banner.

please do tell me the name of theme! i made this account solely for this question

Restarting my computer - which also restarts the GNOME shell - didn’t fix this for me… There was no change and the icons were still not showing correctly.

But, I found a simple work-around.

  • Download the Alacarte menu editor;
  • Show hidden folders in your file manager;
  • Search for “lutris” in your file manager (make sure you’re searching the entire computer, not just your Home folder!) and locate the source of the game icons used within Lutris (for me, the specific folder turned out to be /home/username/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/icons/hicolor/128x128);
  • Copy (not move!) each of the game icons to another folder in your Home directory (you’ll need to keep these or it will break the icons, so maybe create a folder specifically for Lutris icons);
  • Use the Alacarte menu editor to manually change the icons for Lutris games to the icons copied above;
  • Hide hidden files in your file manager;
  • Restart your GNOME shell or computer.

Again, you’ll need to restart GNOME shell or your computer for the changes to take effect.