Terminal icon strange appearance - Ubuntu Gnome 17.04

[vince-a]

I recently installed the Papirus Icon Theme using the following command:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme/master/install-papirus-root.sh | sh

Most of the icons appear to be working fine, except the terminal's application menu icon. It seems like it is too big and has weird placement. See the attached image.

[SmartFinn]

1. How can I enable the icon in the title bar?

2. Can you make a screenshot where it works as expected?

[vince-a]

I did not want the global menu options so I turned off "Show Application Menu" in the Tweak Tool:

Next, in dconf editor, I changed the value of button-layout to "close,minimize,maximize,appmenu:" in org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences

Using the default Adwaita theme in Ubuntu Gnome, my terminal looks like this:

Switching to any variant of Papirus (ePapirus, Papirus, Papirus-Dark, Papirus-Light) cause the application menu icon to switch to:

Thanks for your help!

[SmartFinn]

Can't confirm it. Do you use any HiDPI options?

[chesucr]

The same happens here!

[SmartFinn]

Could you test it on another icon theme? Numix-Circle will be a good choice.

[chesucr]

The same thing happens with Numix-circle!! What is happening?

[fossfreedom]

Same issue occurred with Moka icon theme - this was fixed because the .index theme was incorrect - it was using "Type=scalable" - it was found that icon themes are case sensitive - should have been "Type=Scalable"

i.e. https://github.com/UbuntuBudgie/moka-icon-theme/commit/b413ff058db2f1c0c71fbeb6eddd98b719a1b114

[SmartFinn]

Just checked, index.theme does not contain Type=scalable or Type=fixed.

[fossfreedom]

GTK+ appears to be very sensitive to the icon-theme structure and definition, so in Papirus case maybe something slightly different - what though I dont really know - :(

[fossfreedom]

@SmartFinn was googling - came across this - https://github.com/numixproject/numix-icon-theme/issues/464

It mentioned that -symbolic.svg files should not be using Fixed - is this the issue with this particular report? Should be using Scalable instead of Fixed ? I'm only guessing here obviously.

EDIT: note - I cannot reproduce the OP's observation with Ubuntu Budgie 17.04 + Papirus - all looks ok here.

[isantop]

The only Type=Scaleable app icons which aren't symbolic are the 64x64 icons, and setting this to "Fixed" doesn't affect the problem. I don't think that's the problem here.

[gijsrrr]

Confirmed this is also a bug on Fedora 26. Terminal icon looks stretched

[varlesh]

Type=Scalable used for 64px icons - it's needed for right work on big displays. Also some apps use icon more than 64px, for example Dash on Gnome Shell (96px). If set Type=Fixed icons will be blured or pixelated. Also if it's happened only on Gnome Terminal and not reproduced on other Gnome apps - it's upstream bug! Temporary solution: disable application menu. If you need this menu - dash to panel have this option on right click mouse menu on launcher.

[envygeeks]

Ubuntu 17.04 is EOL, and this problem doesn't exist on Ubuntu 17.10. Maybe the title should be shifted?

[jonathanrdelgado]

Just wanted to throw it out there, the problem still exists in 17.10. I don't think there's anything that can be done about it though, it most likely should be fixed upstream as a gnome-terminal issue.

[meboler]

Reporting that problem also exists in 18.04

[gerasy]

Same here...

[envygeeks]

You might be better filing a new issue, rather than necromancing an issue.

[mlms13]

Wanted to mention that I was also running into this, and after switching to a Wayland session on Ubuntu 18.04, the problem is gone.

[xbrny]

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04, fixed by installing gnome-icon-theme. sudo apt-get install gnome-icon-theme

[svfgvvvu]

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04, fixed by installing gnome-icon-theme. sudo apt-get install gnome-icon-theme

Thank you! Great!