No icons visible in Nemo right click context menu

Jumpy

I did some experimenting on Linux Mint. It was this one single setting that changed the icon visibility on nemo on that operating system:

gsettings set org.cinnamon.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings menus-have-icons true

I guess the icon invisibility issue doesn't solve by simply adding a few *gchema.xlm files under /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/ but one would need to install a cinnamon-settings-daemon as well.

Could it be possbile to slightly alter Nemo source code and build a custom version for myself? Or find another work around?

Jumpy

Yannnd On your Debian 11 installation (where the Nemo menu icons show up correctly) whats your output for $ gsettings list-recursively | grep -i menus-have-icons ?

Yannnd

Jumpy

On my Debian 11 the output of ~$ gsettings list-recursively | grep -i menus-have-icons is only:

org.cinnamon.desktop.interface menus-have-icons true

Interestingly, it makes no difference if menus-have-icons is set to true or false, the icons are always present in the context menus (even after logging out/in).

Jumpy

Yannnd Interesting. Gives me hope, that maybe a fork of Nemo can be found - One that doesn't require that cumbersome settings daemon.

Nikolai2038

I ran into the same problem on Arch Linux. I was able to solve it by adding:

[Settings]
gtk-menu-images=true

to the ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini (or to the /usr/share/gtk-3.0/settings.ini if you want this for all users). After that, Nemo has to be restarted.

Yannnd

Nikolai2038 Thanks for putting some life into this issue again.

I tried to create both settings.ini files, but nothing changed after restarting Nemo.

Triggered by your response I started a new search and this time I stumbled upon an issue at askubuntu.com: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1318002/why-are-all-button-and-menu-icons-gone.

I tried the command from the first answer in this issue:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides "{'Gtk/ButtonImages': <1>, 'Gtk/MenuImages': <1>}"
and to my great satisfaction after a restart Nemo now shows all desired icons! I could reproduce it at a few other Solus installs, so it seems quite consistent.

I also discovered that already many years ago a long discussion has taken place about the removal of this setting from org.gnome and that it has been removed deliberately because of the (often criticized) philosphy of our Gnome developer friends 😏 . So I'm not sure about how long this will keep working, but for now I'm happy with it.

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