Comments on: Speed up the Gnome Menu and Fix the Annoying Icon Delay

By: gareth

gareth — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:57:50 +0000

To update all icons:
for d in /usr/share/icons/*; do gtk-update-icon-cache -f $d; done

With sudo:
for d in /usr/share/icons/*; do sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f $d; done

Another option:
for d in /home/gareth/.icons/*; do gtk-update-icon-cache -f $d; done

Obviously “gareth” has to be replaced with your own username. And sudo should be added if needed.

I stole the code from the comments on this page:
http://hughsient.livejournal.com/12033.html

By: Wesley Tanaka

Wesley Tanaka — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:29:53 +0000

Great tip. And it motivated me to figure out how to restore my missing menu icons too!

By: Mark Sanborn

Mark Sanborn — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:36:13 +0000

Merry Xmas to you too!

By: GNUbie

GNUbie — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:41:50 +0000

Thanks for this tips! I’ve been bothered by this quite some time but always was to lazy to sort it out. Now I decided to do some googlin’ and here I am. Another satisfied customer! Merry Xmas to you Sir! Thanks again.

By: mael

mael — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:10:51 +0000

thanks!

By: John

John — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:09:57 +0000

Thanks a ton!

By: Mark Sanborn

Mark Sanborn — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:57:59 +0000

John,

Yeah you may want to start with the original pack and make sure that all the files replaced are the exact same name. It can be kinda tricky making your own sets of icons. But on the other hand it can be rewarding having cool icons to look at.

I guess you will have to decide to have a slow menu or take the time to make a custom icon pack that will cache.

Glad I was able to steer in the right direction anyways.

By: John

John — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:49:44 +0000

Oh, now that you mention it, I did replace some icons myself awhile back, but I used the same file names as the old ones.

You sure know your icons.

This command worked fine:

gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/gnome/

Looks like it will be complicated to cache my altered leopard-icons set, since I did play around with them previously.

By: Mark Sanborn

Mark Sanborn — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:43:08 +0000

Yeah, you have to be careful in Linux everything is case sensitive. One tip I can give is use the tab key for completing file paths in the command line as it will not make mistakes.

Try running:

gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/gnome/

Just to make sure you can run the command. You may have an icon pack that is referencing files(icons) that aren’t there causing an invalid cache.

By: John

John — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:26:03 +0000

Ok, so turns out I did have the incorrect path. Shouldn’t have capitalized the J in John. So I ran the correct command:

gtk-update-icon-cache -f /home/john/.icons/leopard-icons/

But I got this:

The generated cache was invalid.