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# How to fix thunar missing icons

Nov 2, 2017 • #unix #desktop

# tl;dr

Edit `~/.gtkrc-2.0` with something like:

    gtk-icon-theme-name = "Tango"

And that is it :)

I'm still looking for a perfect filebrowser, nautilus is good I wish I could use it, but nautilus has so many dependencies that I always give up installing.

I tried thunar in a docker image (it is here if you want to use it), but you know we don't get many integrations in this way.

Like I said I tried first to use it in a Docker image, fixed this problem but I could not create the habit of using it. Then I moved to install it in my desktop.

# Fix it!

This “missing icons” problem happens only when there is no icons in your system (which is a rare case) or when your system is not configured properly.

## If you don't have a icon theme

In the first case you will have to install a icon pac to find “instalables” pacs type:

    $ apt-cache search icon-theme

In Ubuntu, or

    $ pacman -Ss icon-theme

In Arch.

Install it using `apt-get install ICON-THEME` or `pacman -S ICON-THEME` .

## Configure it

If you had installed or you already had a icon theme in order to fix this problem you have to create or edit this file: `~/.gtkrc-2.0` to something like:

    gtk-icon-theme-name="ICON-THEME"

And that is it!