Saturday 24 October 2015

How to Fix Ugly/Pixelated Unity Icons in 15.04

The first thing I noticed upon upgrading to 15.04 wasn't positive.

In fact the thing that caught my eye was that many of my icons (particularly Spotify and Banshee) in my normally beautifully clear Unity sidebar looked slightly off - that is a little pixelated and a bit rough.


After a little browse online, I discovered that I wasn't the only person to have had this problem and that thankfully this problem was patched in a Unity update.

What I did to fix this issue was re-install the package: unity - 7.3.2+15. 10.20151016-0ubuntu1 via the synaptic package manager.

I then restarted Unity via:

sudo service lightdm restart

To find my icons were all back to their original good-looking selves!