Lately I’ve been working with Ubuntu 24.04 on my Raspberry Pi 5 8 GiB. On this system I like to tinker with my installation’s desktop from time to time, trying out new wallpapers just to see how they look. Recently I’ve noticed that my installation “forgets” my icon selection, Papirus, and reverts back to an icon family I’m not particularly keen on, Yaru-Red. The lead screenshot shows my desktop with Gnome Tweaks open showing my Icons selection, Papirus-Dark.

However, as soon as I bring up the wallpaper Settings > Appearance view (right click on the desktop and select Change Background…), Ubuntu immediately switches the icon family back to Yaru-Red. I don’t even have to change a wallpaper. All I have to do is bring up the Appearance panel and Ubuntu switches it immediately.

I use Gnome Tweaks to set my icon family. Whenever I install Tweaks I get a Dread Warning about how Tweaks is frowned upon by the Gnome Desktop High Holy Developers. To which I respond (inside my head) then give me a friggin’ way to select my icon family within the Officially Sanctioned Settings application. I’m sure that Tweaks isn’t setting one of myriad locations within Gnome’s configuration files to the proper value for Papirus-Dark, which is why some High Holy Gnome Desktop Developer decided to make sure all the locations were properly configured and fix it if they weren’t, thus changing my selection back to what is considered Proper on the Ubuntu 24.04 desktop.

Maybe I’ll Get Around To It one day and either file a bug report and/or just fix the issue on my end.

Maybe…