diff --git a/modules/home/stylix.nix b/modules/home/stylix.nix
index d70043c..2d1746d 100644
--- a/modules/home/stylix.nix
+++ b/modules/home/stylix.nix
@@ -36,18 +36,10 @@ let
     base0F = hex c.bad;      # brown/deprecated
   };
 
-  # Submenu arrow, bundled: adw-gtk3 (and our earlier fix) look up
-  # pan-end-symbolic in the ICON theme, but Papirus doesn't ship it and
-  # its inheritance chain (breeze-dark → hicolor) is broken here — so
-  # menu arrows rendered as nothing (nm-applet: no hint that "VPN
-  # Connections" opens a submenu). Same trick adw-gtk3 uses for its
-  # check marks: a bundled asset via -gtk-recolor(url(…)), immune to
-  # icon-pack coverage. Shape traced from Adwaita's pan-end-symbolic.
-  panEndSvg = pkgs.writeText "nomarchy-pan-end-symbolic.svg" ''
-    <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16">
-      <path fill="#000000" d="M 6 4 L 10 8 L 6 12 Z"/>
-    </svg>
-  '';
+  # Submenu disclosure arrows: GTK/Adwaita expect pan-end-symbolic,
+  # but Papirus doesn't ship it. Instead of complex CSS overrides and
+  # bundled SVGs, we map the GTK CSS to use go-next-symbolic which
+  # DOES exist in Papirus.
 in
 {
   config = lib.mkIf cfg.stylix.enable {
@@ -80,19 +72,12 @@ in
             menu menuitem:disabled, .menu menuitem:disabled {
               color: #${base16.base03};
             }
-            /* Submenu disclosure arrows — bundled asset, NOT an icon-theme
-               lookup: pan-end-symbolic is missing from Papirus and its
-               broken inheritance chain, so -gtk-icontheme() drew nothing. */
-            menu menuitem arrow, .menu menuitem arrow,
-            menu menuitem:hover arrow, menu menuitem:selected arrow {
-              min-width: 16px;
-              min-height: 16px;
-              margin-left: 8px;
-              color: inherit;
-              -gtk-icon-source: -gtk-recolor(url("${panEndSvg}"));
+            /* Submenu disclosure arrows: map missing pan-end-symbolic to existing go-next-symbolic. */
+            menu menuitem arrow:dir(ltr), .menu menuitem arrow:dir(ltr), .context-menu menuitem arrow:dir(ltr) {
+              -gtk-icon-source: -gtk-icontheme("go-next-symbolic");
             }
-            menu menuitem:hover arrow, menu menuitem:selected arrow {
-              color: #${base16.base00};
+            menu menuitem arrow:dir(rtl), .menu menuitem arrow:dir(rtl), .context-menu menuitem arrow:dir(rtl) {
+              -gtk-icon-source: -gtk-icontheme("go-previous-symbolic");
             }
             check, radio {
               min-width: 14px;