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Icon-picker has a segmentation fault with certain third party icon themes

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Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c
Domain
desktop

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Reproduce with the korla or yaru-plus icon theme, then run xlet-settings applet [email protected] and cinnamon-desktop-editor -m nemo-launcher -d ~/Desktop as described. Trace the segmentation fault in the icon-picker path; done means the icon picker displays and cinnamon-desktop-editor opens without crashing.

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Description

Cinnamon 4.2.3, Mint 19.2, xapps 1.4.9

Problematic icon themes

https://github.com/bikass/korla
https://github.com/Bonandry/yaru-plus

To reproduce install one of the problematic icon themes, open the menu configure GUI via terminal

steve@steve-Inspiron-5580:~$ xlet-settings applet [email protected]

It will open fine.

Click the icon button - no GUI is displayed and the terminal displays

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

The issue also breaks cinnamon-desktop-editor which does not open at all.

steve@steve-Inspiron-5580:~$ cinnamon-desktop-editor -m nemo-launcher -d ~/Desktop
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Ref: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/8801

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