OK, here’s a dilemma from Linux Mint cinnamon that has me pulling my hair out.

I’m using a standard theme – the “Mint-X-Red” theme that SHOULD show all icons as a red folder with a white stripe across the top – like this:

For some reason, a glitch just showed up in the past 24 hours or so.  When I actually click on any folder, the “home” folder or “documents”, etc. it opens to show blue icons for every single sub folder – even though I have the “Mint-X-Red” theme installed properly, as best as I can tell.

When I reopen the theme manager, and check the setting for icons, it’s labeled “Mint-X-Red” but clearly shows the blue folder icon I’m getting.  I can change it, exit the theme manager, restart cinnamon, and there those blue icons are all over again!

The task panel at the bottom of my desktop screen shows the red folder that I expect to see in all folders that are open, but apart from that one desktop icon, don’t.  I’ve tried every single fix I can find suggested on forums and the web and so far nothing works – to the extent I’m about ready to pull my hair out!  So… any Linux users out there that have run across this and figure out a fix?  I’m all ears.