Repair displaying snap application icons in KDE Plasma

2025-11-21

Sometimes after installing applications via snap application titles in the system menu displaying an empty icon. To fix it create symlinks and refresh icon cache:

ln -sf /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
ln -sf /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*.desktop ~/.local/share/plasma_icons/
sudo ln -sf /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*.desktop /usr/share/applications/
sudo update-desktop-database