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I'm having the following problem: In emacs the tool bar icons are invisible as can be seen here. There should be icons like visit new file, save buffer etc below the menu at the top and above the buffer. By the way, they aren't missing, I can still click them. The icons are just blank. I can even hover over them or press them, it all works.

I have no idea why this happened, nor do I know how to fix it. Any suggestions?

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  • try M-: (tool-bar-mode 1). May be you have (tool-bar-mode -1) in your init file.
    – DJJ
    Apr 26, 2016 at 6:06
  • @DJJ that didn't do anything. By the way, they aren't missing, I can still click them. The icons are just I can even hover over them or press them, it all works.blank.
    – Lara
    Apr 26, 2016 at 7:10
  • I suspect there is something wrong with you init file. Try launching emacs in quick mode without any loading any file. In the command line it's emacs -Q. Then loading the init files little by little to bring your emacs back.
    – DJJ
    Apr 26, 2016 at 9:33
  • @DJJ emacs -Q doesn't have it working either.
    – Lara
    Apr 26, 2016 at 9:41
  • My suggestion is then to backup the init file and install emacs again. In my opinion it should be quicker to solve if you have no clue
    – DJJ
    Apr 26, 2016 at 10:35

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You are probably using an outdated gtk3 theme, try the default adwaita. The latest gtk update was breaking for many existing themes, see for example https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361066.

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