Missing wm button icons

Hello there,

my first post here!
Flatpaks work very well, only in a few cases flatpaks missed to launch because of outdated runtime dependencies. Not the norm, so not a big deal.

Since a month or so, some flatpaks don’t show anymore their window manager buttons (minimize, expand, close) icons, please see the attachments (flatpak is “Planify”):

couldn’t embed more than one picture as a new user, also the light theme shows just gray buttons without icons

Buttons are just gray, and there is no change on mouse hover.

What I tried so far

  • sudo flatpak repair
  • also terminal options like reinstall or update didn’t bring wm button icons back.
  • to install Adwaita packages or the breeze theme packages (from Mint’s official app repo)

Luckily wm buttons work, but to not see button icons is slightly irritating. I always thought, flatpaks are self-contained and don’t need much outside resources. Well, probably I uninstalled some theme on my system, not knowing that it was necessary for flatpak themes.

Question

  • how to update or edit theme preferences to point to the right resources of wm buttons?
  • what themes are required to get wm button icons?

Linux Mint Cinnamon 21.3