Hello I just did an upgrade and I have found that all the users on my desktop machine that use GNOME have now got oversized top bar icons and the menu background panes have disappeared. I have tried to reset GNOME to default but no luck for the moment. Any thoughts on how to mend this are most welc…

It works fine on a default install of RL 9.8. I would check the Extensions, especially Dash-To-Panel settings. Maybe start by disabling and re-enabling them to see changes. In the Dash-To-Panel there are font tuning settings (Fine-Tune tab). Also, check the tweaks though I do not believe there are …

Dash to dock only affects the apps dock menu on my machine. Turning off or on the Extensions window has no effect on the top menu icon size. Gnome Tweaks does not change anything either. I have just done an upgrade on another machine and I get the same result. This update was quiet large so below …

[image] chlowden: Return-Code : Failure: 1 Do we know which package failed?

The very long list does not show any failures . The only one that has stars in front of the line is .. ** Upgraded microsoft-edge-stable-147.0.3912.72-1.x86_64 @@System and one was removed Removed mesa-libxatracker-25.0.7-5.el9_7.x86_64 @@System B…

When you run one of these (162 is example transaction id) dnf history info last dnf history info 162 it should show some messy output near the end, after the big list of packages?

(base) [admin@ROCKYLOWDEN9 ~]$ sudo dnf history list ID | Command line | Date and time | Action(s) | Altered -----------------------------------------------------------------------------…

To downgrade, you need to be able to access both current and previous versions of the packages. Once 9.8 is released, you no longer see the 9.7 packages, since you can use: dnf list --showduplicates <package-name> to verify this. Downgrade is going to be pretty much impossible. I would suggest o…

Might be worth checking dnf first; see if the new flatpak is there, and see if it makes a difference…

Sadly, nope, updated flatpak hasn’t been fixed and released yet. A bug report is open here: [image] XDG_DATA_DIRS has a root path /root by default Rocky Linux Help & Support Ticket @ https://bugs.rockylinux.org/view.php?id=12904

I presume that I need to wait this one out … Thanks for your the info

Rocky 9.8 - GNOME & Gnome Classic top bar icons oversized

Rocky Linux Help & Support

iwalker June 1, 2026, 12:32pm 10

Sadly, nope, updated flatpak hasn’t been fixed and released yet. A bug report is open here:

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Rocky 9.8 - GNOME & Gnome Classic top bar icons oversized

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