Missing icons when using i3 window manager

[oren]

New Ubuntu 16.04, when using i3 instead of the default window manager most of the icons are missing. see picture - https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6517/17843460/14034200-67e3-11e6-998e-88e2d5f37539.png

Also, I see this output in the terminal: '(unity-control-center:30149): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-C0aH1WkQr3: Connection refused'

I reported it to i3 (https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/2430) but I was told it's unity-control-center issue.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04.1
Package: unity-control-center 15.04.0+16.04.20160705-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-34-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Aug 21 21:25:59 2016
SourcePackage: unity-control-center

[oren (orengolan)]

update: adding sudo solved it - 'sudo unity-control-center'. I see all the icons now. but I suspect it's not a good idea.

[oren (orengolan)]

even with 'sudo' I see the following:

** (unity-control-center:31776): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-C0aH1WkQr3: Connection refused

(unity-control-center:31776): IBUS-WARNING **: The owner of /home/oren/.config/ibus/bus is not root!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

unity-control-center is meant to be used under unity, does it work better if you start it with XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity unity-control-center?

[oren (orengolan)]

Yes! That works. Thank you.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

@Sebastien: Can this be because the u-c-c task at bug #1554878 wasn't fixed in Xenial?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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