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In order to remove the shortcut icon shown on symbolic links in Nautilus we used to be able to just move the following file “emblem-symbolic-link.png” to “emblem-symbolic-link.png.bak”

This is no longer the case on Ubuntu 24.04 as you will get a symbolic link with a broken i.e missing image.

The best way so far I found as of now is to create a 1×1 transparent pixel and then copy it to all the instances of emblem-symbolic-link.png for the theme you are using if you are using the out of the box theme which is called Yaru then it will be all instances of the images below you need to replace.

/usr/share/icons/Yaru/16x16/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png
/usr/share/icons/Yaru/16x16@2x/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png
/usr/share/icons/Yaru/24x24/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png
/usr/share/icons/Yaru/24x24@2x/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png
/usr/share/icons/Yaru/256x256/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png
/usr/share/icons/Yaru/256x256@2x/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png
/usr/share/icons/Yaru/32x32/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png
/usr/share/icons/Yaru/32x32@2x/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png
/usr/share/icons/Yaru/48x48/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png
/usr/share/icons/Yaru/48x48@2x/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png
/usr/share/icons/Yaru/8x8/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png
/usr/share/icons/Yaru/8x8@2x/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png

If you are using for example Yaru-blue then it would be all of the images below you would need to replace.

/usr/share/icons/Yaru-blue/16x16/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png
/usr/share/icons/Yaru-blue/16x16@2x/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png
/usr/share/icons/Yaru-blue/24x24/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png
/usr/share/icons/Yaru-blue/24x24@2x/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png
/usr/share/icons/Yaru-blue/256x256/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png
/usr/share/icons/Yaru-blue/256x256@2x/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png
/usr/share/icons/Yaru-blue/32x32/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png
/usr/share/icons/Yaru-blue/32x32@2x/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png
/usr/share/icons/Yaru-blue/48x48/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png
/usr/share/icons/Yaru-blue/48x48@2x/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png
/usr/share/icons/Yaru-blue/8x8/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png
/usr/share/icons/Yaru-blue/8x8@2x/emblems/emblem-symbolic-link.png