[solved] Icons missing in KDE apps if started from XFCE

[mike155]

My main desktop is XFCE, but I installed some KDE 5 apps (konsole, kate, dolphin, etc.)

Two weeks ago, all icons in the KDE 5 apps disappeared. The KDE apps still ran fine, but no icons were shown.

After a while, I found out that I had to do 2 things to get the icons back:

• 1) I had to install kde-frameworks/frameworkintegration
  2) I had to set the environment variable XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="kde" before starting a KDE app

Update (2016-07-27)
For KDE Frameworks 5.23 (and probably later), these rules must be changed to:

• 1) kde-frameworks/frameworkintegration must be installed
  2) The environment variable XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP must be set to "XFCE" before starting a KDE app

[dr.nil]

Thanks for documenting this tip. I just ran into this issue and found your workaround.

-dirk

[spindle]

Nice, works great. Fixed it for me as well.

[gentooP4]

Need to try this myself. I have the same issue since moving from KDE4 to XFCE, mainly missing icons for folders, etc in Dolphin.

Here's another suggestion that apparently works
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1048308.html

EDIT: Damn, neither worked for me

[dasPaul]

2) I had to set the environment variable XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="kde" before starting a KDE app

gorgeous, thanks! I was looking for that quite a while because kstars always started without icons and theme settings without runiing a plasma session.

[mike155]

Yesterday I upgraded to kde-frameworks 5.23. After that, all icons in my KDE apps were gone again!

After a while, I found out that icons come back if I set XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP to "XFCE" before starting a KDE app.

For KDE Frameworks 5.23 (and probably later), my first post must be changed to:

• 1) kde-frameworks/frameworkintegration must be installed
  2) The environment variable XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP must be set to "XFCE" before starting a KDE app