On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 at 13:22, alain williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to track down & fix an issue that I have had for months. > After I enter my password the screen just shows that desktop > background/wallpaper. The mouse is there and it will move but no panels > or icons. It remains like this for ~3 minutes and then panels, icons, ... > all appear and I can do work. > I can switch to a terminal (Ctrl-Shift-F1) & login but there is not > something that is obviously waiting. > Any clues or suggestions as to what to examine ? > Not a huge impact since I tend to remain logged in for weeks at a time. > But I would like to fix. > I am running Debian 13 - Trixie using the Mate desktop. The same thing > happened with Debian 12. Hi, I don't know if this will do anything, but you could try updating the icon cache. To do that, you first need to query what GTK theme your system is using: [david@kablamm ~]$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme 'Adwaita' So on the system here, the theme is Adwaita. To update the icon cache for the Adwaita theme, I run: [david@kablamm ~]$ sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/ gtk-update-icon-cache: Cache file created successfully. So you would run that command, replacing Adwaita with the name of the theme your system is using.
