Launcher icons invisible, still work in 12.04

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Rebooted my PC today to find that my launcher icons are not showing on the launcher bar, even though they are still there. I can hover over the launcher bar and see (via the mouse tool-tip) that they are still there, and I can even interact with them. I cannot, however, see them even after doing the following:

Trying to reset unity via unity --reset
Attempting to remove and re-install Compiz Unity via these instructions: How can I remove and re-install Unity?.

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 28 '17 at 13:18

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Have you tried unity --reset-icons?

It's best to run this kind commands from tty1. Press Ctrl+Alt+f1, log in and then enter these commands:

unity --reset-icons
unity --reset
reboot

edited Jul 28 '17 at 13:18

Zanna

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answered Jul 12 '12 at 16:50

Web-E

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 26 '12 at 08:39

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The disappearing icons problem is described in bug #806248. You should mark the bug as affecting you.

answered Oct 26 '12 at 08:39

Mihai Capotă

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Launcher icons invisible, still work in 12.04

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