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I have found some nice firefox icons and I'd like to change my old icon for one new one.

I have logged in as a root and went to usr/lib/firefox/icons and pasted the new icon in, but after restart it doesnt appear. It just shows a red circle instead of the icon. How could I make firefox accept the new icon?

NOTE: I have just switched back to the root account and it works perfectly there, but when I wanna use it on my normal account it wont work. I have tried to copy the icon in the same way I copied it with the root account, but it wont let me do it. Is there a way to get root access on my normal account and copy the icon?

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  • What icon are you talking about? A desktop icon?
    – LnxSlck
    Oct 6, 2012 at 23:20
  • @LnxSlck yes, the desktop icon of firefox.
    – Elysium
    Oct 6, 2012 at 23:21
  • Please edit this question to change wont to won't, doesnt to doesn't, and wanna to want to so that English translating software can render this page properly. Nov 27, 2021 at 22:47

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In the terminal, I had to use the command line gksu nautilus to be able to get permission for changing files. In this case, I needed the permission so that I could copy the new Firefox icon.

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Firefox may not have permission to access the new icon. Try giving it 777 or something. I don't know for sure though, I'm a noob.

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Make the icons readable by anyone, like this:

sudo chmod a+r /usr/lib/firefox/icons/*
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  • thanks for the answer, but it doesnt work. I type the command in the terminal and hit enter and nothing happens.
    – Elysium
    Oct 6, 2012 at 23:42
  • Nothing is suppose to happen, except the icon now appears on your user desktop
    – LnxSlck
    Oct 6, 2012 at 23:49
  • @LnxSlck This was my problem: gksu nautilus I had permission issues and this command sorted it out.
    – Elysium
    Oct 7, 2012 at 0:01

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