diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-linux.yml b/.github/workflows/release-linux.yml
index d1ac5caa..416047ad 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-linux.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-linux.yml
@@ -53,7 +53,9 @@ jobs:
             gettext \
             libadwaita-1-dev \
             libepoxy-dev \
+            libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin \
             libgtk-4-dev \
+            librsvg2-common \
             libxml2-utils \
             libwebkitgtk-6.0-dev \
             meson \
@@ -90,6 +92,7 @@ jobs:
         env:
           APPIMAGE_EXTRACT_AND_RUN: "1"
           LIMUX_MAX_GLIBC: "2.39"
+          LIMUX_REQUIRE_SVG_LOADER: "1"
         run: ./scripts/package.sh "${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}"
 
       - name: Upload packages to release
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-rpm.yml b/.github/workflows/release-rpm.yml
index 076806c8..edc26b93 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-rpm.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-rpm.yml
@@ -52,7 +52,9 @@ jobs:
             gettext \
             libadwaita-1-dev \
             libepoxy-dev \
+            libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin \
             libgtk-4-dev \
+            librsvg2-common \
             libxml2-utils \
             libwebkitgtk-6.0-dev \
             meson \
@@ -72,6 +74,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build RPM package
         env:
           LIMUX_MAX_GLIBC: "2.39"
+          LIMUX_REQUIRE_SVG_LOADER: "1"
         run: ./scripts/package.sh "${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}"
 
       - name: Resolve RPM path
diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 9197973b..c0f0c0dc 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -71,6 +71,15 @@ rg -n "PaneCallbacks \{"                           rust/limux-host-linux/src/win
   `ghostty_surface_new` call.
 - **Vendored `ghostty/` is read-only.** Work through the C API in
   `ghostty/include/ghostty.h`.
+- **AppImage must ship the gdk-pixbuf SVG loader.** Limux's toolbar
+  uses `-symbolic` SVG icons; without `libpixbufloader-svg.so` and
+  its `librsvg-2.so.2` closure inside the AppImage's `usr/lib/`,
+  GTK falls back to the broken-image glyph on hosts that don't have
+  the loader installed system-wide (Fedora 44+, minimal containers).
+  The bundling logic lives in `scripts/package.sh` and is guarded by
+  `assert_pixbuf_svg_loader_bundle`; gate releases on
+  `LIMUX_REQUIRE_SVG_LOADER=1` to make a missing loader a hard
+  failure.
 - **Clippy is a hard gate** (`-D warnings`). Fix lints, don't suppress.
 - **Don't commit** `target/` or other build artifacts.
 
diff --git a/scripts/package.sh b/scripts/package.sh
index 8f389908..d9f84f3c 100755
--- a/scripts/package.sh
+++ b/scripts/package.sh
@@ -103,6 +103,30 @@ assert_no_legacy_host_entrypoint() {
     fi
 }
 
+assert_pixbuf_svg_loader_bundle() {
+    local appdir="$1"
+    local loader_dir_rel="$2"
+    local cache_dir_rel="$3"
+
+    if ! ls "${appdir}/${loader_dir_rel}/"libpixbufloader[-_]svg.so >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        echo "ERROR: AppImage is missing libpixbufloader-svg.so under ${loader_dir_rel}/"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    if [ ! -f "${appdir}/usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2" ]; then
+        echo "ERROR: AppImage is missing librsvg-2.so.2 (loader closure copy failed?)"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    if [ ! -s "${appdir}/${cache_dir_rel}/loaders.cache.template" ]; then
+        echo "ERROR: AppImage is missing loaders.cache.template under ${cache_dir_rel}/"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    if ! grep -q "@LOADER_DIR@" "${appdir}/${cache_dir_rel}/loaders.cache.template"; then
+        echo "ERROR: loaders.cache.template missing @LOADER_DIR@ placeholder — AppRun substitution will fail"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    echo "Verified bundled SVG pixbuf loader, librsvg-2.so.2, and loaders.cache.template"
+}
+
 install_desktop_file() {
     local src="$1"
     local dest="$2"
@@ -764,6 +788,109 @@ if [ -f "$APP_ICONS_DIR/256.png" ]; then
     cp "$APP_ICONS_DIR/256.png" "$APPDIR/.DirIcon"
 fi
 
+# Bundle gdk-pixbuf SVG loader + librsvg closure. Without these, symbolic SVG
+# icons (the pane action toolbar) fail to render on hosts that don't ship
+# rsvg-pixbuf-loader — e.g. Fedora 44+, which dropped the package — because
+# the AppImage's bundled libgdk_pixbuf has no loader to delegate to.
+# See https://github.com/am-will/limux/issues/80
+PIXBUF_LOADER_DIR_REL="usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders"
+PIXBUF_CACHE_DIR_REL="usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0"
+PIXBUF_SVG_LOADER=""
+
+# Map `uname -m` to the Debian multiarch tuple. dpkg-architecture is the
+# authoritative source on Debian/Ubuntu; the case statement is a fallback for
+# hosts without dpkg (Fedora, Arch, …) where the multiarch path is unused
+# anyway. Also covers /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/... (no arch infix) used by Arch.
+PIXBUF_MULTIARCH=""
+if command -v dpkg-architecture >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    PIXBUF_MULTIARCH="$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH 2>/dev/null || true)"
+fi
+if [ -z "$PIXBUF_MULTIARCH" ]; then
+    case "$(uname -m)" in
+        x86_64) PIXBUF_MULTIARCH="x86_64-linux-gnu" ;;
+        aarch64) PIXBUF_MULTIARCH="aarch64-linux-gnu" ;;
+        i386|i486|i586|i686) PIXBUF_MULTIARCH="i386-linux-gnu" ;;
+        armv7l|armv7) PIXBUF_MULTIARCH="arm-linux-gnueabihf" ;;
+        armv6l) PIXBUF_MULTIARCH="arm-linux-gnueabi" ;;
+        *) PIXBUF_MULTIARCH="$(uname -m)-linux-gnu" ;;
+    esac
+fi
+
+for candidate in \
+    /usr/lib/${PIXBUF_MULTIARCH}/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-svg.so \
+    /usr/lib/${PIXBUF_MULTIARCH}/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader_svg.so \
+    /usr/lib64/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-svg.so \
+    /usr/lib64/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader_svg.so \
+    /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-svg.so \
+    /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader_svg.so
+do
+    if [ -f "$candidate" ]; then
+        PIXBUF_SVG_LOADER="$candidate"
+        break
+    fi
+done
+
+if [ -n "$PIXBUF_SVG_LOADER" ]; then
+    mkdir -p "$APPDIR/$PIXBUF_LOADER_DIR_REL"
+    cp "$PIXBUF_SVG_LOADER" "$APPDIR/$PIXBUF_LOADER_DIR_REL/"
+
+    # Drag in librsvg-2 and its closure — the loader dlopens it at runtime.
+    copy_appimage_library_closure "$APPDIR/usr/lib" "$PIXBUF_SVG_LOADER"
+
+    # Generate a relocatable loaders.cache template. AppRun substitutes
+    # @LOADER_DIR@ with the live mount path at runtime. Use a tab delimiter
+    # for sed since neither the AppDir path nor "@LOADER_DIR@" can contain
+    # a literal tab.
+    # Debian/Ubuntu ship `gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders` under the multiarch lib
+    # dir, not in $PATH — check there before falling back to PATH.
+    QUERY_LOADERS=""
+    for candidate in \
+        /usr/lib/${PIXBUF_MULTIARCH}/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders \
+        /usr/lib64/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders \
+        /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders
+    do
+        if [ -x "$candidate" ]; then
+            QUERY_LOADERS="$candidate"
+            break
+        fi
+    done
+    if [ -z "$QUERY_LOADERS" ]; then
+        if command -v gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+            QUERY_LOADERS=gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders
+        elif command -v gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders-64 >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+            QUERY_LOADERS=gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders-64
+        fi
+    fi
+
+    if [ -n "$QUERY_LOADERS" ]; then
+        GDK_PIXBUF_MODULEDIR="$APPDIR/$PIXBUF_LOADER_DIR_REL" "$QUERY_LOADERS" \
+            | sed -e $'s\t'"$APPDIR/$PIXBUF_LOADER_DIR_REL"$'\t@LOADER_DIR@\tg' \
+            > "$APPDIR/$PIXBUF_CACHE_DIR_REL/loaders.cache.template"
+    else
+        echo "WARNING: gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders not found; AppImage SVG loader not registered."
+        echo "         Install libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin (Debian/Ubuntu) or gdk-pixbuf2-modules (Fedora)."
+        echo "         AppImage will ship without SVG symbolic icons working on hosts without rsvg-pixbuf-loader."
+        if [ "${LIMUX_REQUIRE_SVG_LOADER:-}" = "1" ]; then
+            exit 1
+        fi
+    fi
+
+    # Smoke check: assert the loader bundle is wired correctly (skipped if
+    # the query step warned and continued without producing the template).
+    if [ -s "$APPDIR/$PIXBUF_CACHE_DIR_REL/loaders.cache.template" ]; then
+        assert_pixbuf_svg_loader_bundle "$APPDIR" "$PIXBUF_LOADER_DIR_REL" "$PIXBUF_CACHE_DIR_REL"
+    fi
+else
+    echo "WARNING: libpixbufloader-svg.so not found on build host."
+    echo "         Install rsvg-pixbuf-loader (Fedora), librsvg2-common (Debian/Ubuntu),"
+    echo "         or librsvg (Arch) to bundle the loader. AppImage will ship without"
+    echo "         SVG symbolic icons working on hosts that don't ship the loader (e.g. Fedora 44+)."
+    echo "         Set LIMUX_REQUIRE_SVG_LOADER=1 to make this a hard error (used by official CI)."
+    if [ "${LIMUX_REQUIRE_SVG_LOADER:-}" = "1" ]; then
+        exit 1
+    fi
+fi
+
 # AppRun entry point — sets up library path and launches the binary
 cat > "$APPDIR/AppRun" << 'APPRUN_EOF'
 #!/bin/bash
@@ -771,6 +898,28 @@ HERE="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")"
 cd "$HERE"
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${HERE}/usr/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:-}"
 export XDG_DATA_DIRS="${HERE}/usr/share:${XDG_DATA_DIRS:-/usr/share}"
+
+# Activate bundled gdk-pixbuf SVG loader by materializing loaders.cache with
+# the current mount path. Written to $XDG_CACHE_HOME so it works on a
+# read-only FUSE-mounted AppImage. See packaging step that bundles the loader.
+# Only export GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE if mkdir and sed both succeed — otherwise
+# pointing at a missing/stale cache silently breaks SVG rendering.
+PIXBUF_DIR="${HERE}/usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0"
+if [ -f "${PIXBUF_DIR}/loaders.cache.template" ] && [ -d "${PIXBUF_DIR}/loaders" ]; then
+    LIMUX_CACHE_BASE="${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}"
+    LIMUX_CACHE="${LIMUX_CACHE_BASE}/limux"
+    PIXBUF_CACHE="${LIMUX_CACHE}/pixbuf-loaders.cache.$$"
+    if [ -n "${LIMUX_CACHE_BASE}" ] \
+       && mkdir -p "$LIMUX_CACHE" 2>/dev/null \
+       && sed -e $'s\t@LOADER_DIR@\t'"${PIXBUF_DIR}/loaders"$'\tg' \
+              "${PIXBUF_DIR}/loaders.cache.template" > "${PIXBUF_CACHE}" 2>/dev/null \
+       && [ -s "${PIXBUF_CACHE}" ]; then
+        export GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE="${PIXBUF_CACHE}"
+    fi
+    unset LIMUX_CACHE_BASE LIMUX_CACHE PIXBUF_CACHE
+fi
+unset PIXBUF_DIR
+
 export WEBKIT_EXEC_PATH="${HERE}/usr/lib/webkitgtk-6.0"
 export WEBKIT_INJECTED_BUNDLE_PATH="${HERE}/usr/lib/webkitgtk-6.0/injected-bundle"
 exec "${HERE}/usr/bin/limux" "$@"
diff --git a/scripts/tests/test-package-svg-loader.sh b/scripts/tests/test-package-svg-loader.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..5f5d74de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/tests/test-package-svg-loader.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,170 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Unit tests for the AppImage SVG-loader bundling logic in scripts/package.sh.
+#
+# Tests are pure-shell. They isolate the relevant blocks so they can be
+# exercised without running a full package build.
+set -euo pipefail
+
+SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
+PACKAGE_SH="$SCRIPT_DIR/../package.sh"
+
+PASS=0
+FAIL=0
+
+pass() { PASS=$((PASS+1)); printf '  ✓ %s\n' "$1"; }
+fail() { FAIL=$((FAIL+1)); printf '  ✗ %s\n    %s\n' "$1" "$2"; }
+
+# ----- T1: PIXBUF_MULTIARCH mapping per uname -m -----
+
+multiarch_for() {
+    # Replicates the case branch from package.sh.
+    case "$1" in
+        x86_64) echo "x86_64-linux-gnu" ;;
+        aarch64) echo "aarch64-linux-gnu" ;;
+        i386|i486|i586|i686) echo "i386-linux-gnu" ;;
+        armv7l|armv7) echo "arm-linux-gnueabihf" ;;
+        armv6l) echo "arm-linux-gnueabi" ;;
+        *) echo "$1-linux-gnu" ;;
+    esac
+}
+
+echo "T1: PIXBUF_MULTIARCH mapping"
+for input in x86_64:x86_64-linux-gnu \
+             aarch64:aarch64-linux-gnu \
+             i686:i386-linux-gnu \
+             i386:i386-linux-gnu \
+             armv7l:arm-linux-gnueabihf \
+             armv6l:arm-linux-gnueabi \
+             unknownarch:unknownarch-linux-gnu
+do
+    arch="${input%%:*}"
+    expected="${input##*:}"
+    actual="$(multiarch_for "$arch")"
+    if [ "$actual" = "$expected" ]; then
+        pass "uname -m=$arch → $expected"
+    else
+        fail "uname -m=$arch" "expected '$expected', got '$actual'"
+    fi
+done
+
+# ----- T2: sed delimiter handles paths with `|` -----
+
+echo 'T2: sed substitution with "|" in source path'
+HEREDOC_TMP=$(mktemp -d)
+trap 'rm -rf "$HEREDOC_TMP"' EXIT
+
+# Simulate a build path containing a `|` (rare but legal).
+EVIL_APPDIR="$HEREDOC_TMP/build|dir"
+mkdir -p "$EVIL_APPDIR"
+PIXBUF_LOADER_DIR_REL="usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders"
+mkdir -p "$EVIL_APPDIR/$PIXBUF_LOADER_DIR_REL"
+
+# Fake gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders output containing the abs path.
+QUERY_OUT="\"$EVIL_APPDIR/$PIXBUF_LOADER_DIR_REL/libpixbufloader_svg.so\""
+TEMPLATE=$(printf '%s\n' "$QUERY_OUT" | sed -e $'s\t'"$EVIL_APPDIR/$PIXBUF_LOADER_DIR_REL"$'\t@LOADER_DIR@\tg')
+
+if [[ "$TEMPLATE" == "\"@LOADER_DIR@/libpixbufloader_svg.so\"" ]]; then
+    pass "tab-delimited sed handles '|' in source path"
+else
+    fail "tab-delimited sed with '|' in path" "got: $TEMPLATE"
+fi
+
+# Test that the old pipe-delimited sed would have failed.
+if ! BAD=$(printf '%s\n' "$QUERY_OUT" | sed "s|$EVIL_APPDIR/$PIXBUF_LOADER_DIR_REL|@LOADER_DIR@|g" 2>/dev/null) \
+   || [[ "$BAD" == *"build|dir"* ]]; then
+    pass "regression: pipe-delimited sed fails with '|' in path (expected)"
+else
+    fail "regression check" "old sed unexpectedly worked: $BAD"
+fi
+
+# ----- T3: AppRun materializes cache only on successful mkdir+sed -----
+
+echo "T3: AppRun GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE conditional export"
+
+# Run the AppRun pixbuf block in isolation with read-only HOME.
+run_apprun_block() {
+    local home_dir="$1"
+    local pixbuf_dir="$2"
+
+    HOME="$home_dir" XDG_CACHE_HOME="" \
+    PIXBUF_DIR="$pixbuf_dir" \
+    bash -c '
+        if [ -f "${PIXBUF_DIR}/loaders.cache.template" ] && [ -d "${PIXBUF_DIR}/loaders" ]; then
+            LIMUX_CACHE_BASE="${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}"
+            LIMUX_CACHE="${LIMUX_CACHE_BASE}/limux"
+            PIXBUF_CACHE="${LIMUX_CACHE}/pixbuf-loaders.cache.$$"
+            if [ -n "${LIMUX_CACHE_BASE}" ] \
+               && mkdir -p "$LIMUX_CACHE" 2>/dev/null \
+               && sed -e $'"'"'s\t@LOADER_DIR@\t'"'"'"${PIXBUF_DIR}/loaders"$'"'"'\tg'"'"' \
+                      "${PIXBUF_DIR}/loaders.cache.template" > "${PIXBUF_CACHE}" 2>/dev/null \
+               && [ -s "${PIXBUF_CACHE}" ]; then
+                export GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE="${PIXBUF_CACHE}"
+            fi
+        fi
+        # Report whether the export happened.
+        echo "${GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE:-NOT_SET}"
+    '
+}
+
+# Setup a valid pixbuf dir with template + loaders.
+PIXBUF_DIR="$HEREDOC_TMP/pixbuf"
+mkdir -p "$PIXBUF_DIR/loaders"
+printf '"@LOADER_DIR@/libpixbufloader_svg.so"\n' > "$PIXBUF_DIR/loaders.cache.template"
+
+# Case 1: writable HOME → export should happen
+WRITABLE_HOME="$HEREDOC_TMP/home1"
+mkdir -p "$WRITABLE_HOME"
+result=$(run_apprun_block "$WRITABLE_HOME" "$PIXBUF_DIR")
+if [[ "$result" == *"pixbuf-loaders.cache."* ]] && [[ "$result" != "NOT_SET" ]]; then
+    pass "export with writable HOME"
+else
+    fail "export with writable HOME" "got: $result"
+fi
+
+# Case 2: read-only HOME (mkdir fails) → export should NOT happen
+RO_HOME="$HEREDOC_TMP/home2_ro"
+mkdir -p "$RO_HOME"
+chmod 555 "$RO_HOME"
+result=$(run_apprun_block "$RO_HOME" "$PIXBUF_DIR")
+chmod 755 "$RO_HOME"
+if [[ "$result" == "NOT_SET" ]]; then
+    pass "skip export on read-only HOME"
+else
+    fail "skip export on read-only HOME" "expected NOT_SET, got: $result"
+fi
+
+# ----- T4: LIMUX_REQUIRE_SVG_LOADER hard-fail vs warn-only -----
+
+echo "T4: LIMUX_REQUIRE_SVG_LOADER gates exit 1"
+
+# Excerpt the warn-or-exit logic — paste-equivalent to the script.
+warn_or_exit() {
+    local require="${1:-}"
+    echo "WARNING: simulated loader missing"
+    if [ "${require:-}" = "1" ]; then
+        return 99
+    fi
+    return 0
+}
+
+ec=0
+warn_or_exit "" >/dev/null 2>&1 || ec=$?
+if [ "$ec" = "0" ]; then
+    pass "no env var → warn and continue (exit 0)"
+else
+    fail "warn-only path" "expected exit 0, got $ec"
+fi
+
+ec=0
+warn_or_exit "1" >/dev/null 2>&1 || ec=$?
+if [ "$ec" = "99" ]; then
+    pass "LIMUX_REQUIRE_SVG_LOADER=1 → hard fail (exit 99)"
+else
+    fail "hard-fail path" "expected exit 99, got $ec"
+fi
+
+# ----- Summary -----
+
+echo ""
+echo "Results: $PASS passed, $FAIL failed"
+[ "$FAIL" -eq 0 ]