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Creating .desktop file syntax filename space
I was just learning how to make new launcher icons and I encountered a small annoyance with the spaces in filenames.
[Desktop Entry]
Version=x.y
Name=ProgramName
Comment=This is my comment
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Two Ubuntu One cloud icons in the top bar [duplicate]
EDIT: I did some digging around and it turns out that the command provided before was incorrect. Here is the command you'll need to get rid of the OLD Ubuntu One icon:
sudo apt-get purge ...
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Show icon in alt-tab menu using .desktop file
After Googling for hours, I didn't find any answer for the following issue and so glad if anyone could help.
I use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with Gnome-shell 3.4.1. Consider the following simple program in ...
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Missing icons in Gnome-Shell overview
There are applications icons missing in my Gnome-Shell 3.8.2 overview, but this wasn't like that on a fresh install with Gnome3-PPA enabled. I do not have or had the Gnome3-Staging-PPA enabled.
I had ...
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Google Chrome Launcher Not Installed on Unity Bar
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 today. I expected the Google Chrome Browser to be part of the install. When I didn't see the icon I went to the Ubuntu software web page and downloaded and installed the ...
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icon assigned in .desktop file is NOT used when application is loaded and dsah icon appears
I am installing the newer application eclipse Juno on ubuntu 12.04 64bit, following this http://www.blogs.digitalworlds.net/softwarenotes/?p=54 .
I have already installed eclipse indigo in the past ...
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Icons for Ubuntu Touch
After coming across Can I use the indicator icons from Ubuntu Touch on the desktop version?, I downloaded the icons (sudo apt-get install ubuntu-mobile-icons). I have a question regarding the contents ...
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My desktop icons have gone out of view
I have just two icons on my desktop The Home folder and my Kindle.
Until recently they worked well, However,today, when I turned on my computer, they had vanished. I checked the settings and it said ...
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Sound icon not working
I am using Ubuntu 13.04. last time i installed Pulse-audio-4.0 after which a weird problem started with my sound icon.In sound icon there are two hyphens following the speaker like <|--
i clicked ...
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I want to change only folder icons from humanity theme.How do i do it?
I love the new Files, app center and software update icons specially an thus want to remain on humanity icon set.
But i hate the folders!
i want to use the folders from the Faenza icon set. Which ...
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How to, auto add desktop icon for all new likewise-open users 12.04
I want to add a desktop icon to the desktop of every user that logges on.
The system is connected to Active Directory using LikeWise-open, i dont want to manualy add the desktop icons to every user, ...
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Unity, icon for applications run from folder
I recently switched to the snapshot versions of Minecraft. In the snapshot versions there is a launcher. From this launcher you choose a version of Minecraft to run. This then launches a .jar file ...
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Unity launcher uses generic icon for Firefox in Ubuntu 12.04
After upgrading my distribution from 11.04 to 11.10 to 12.04 when starting a Firefox instance (from Alt+F2, not having a fixed launcher element) the icon displayed for it in the launcher and ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 stuck on the home screen and not able to display any wallpapers and have problem closing down the appplications
I upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10 then on the same day to 13.04. The up-gradation happened successfully from 12.04 to 12.10 but while from 12.10 to 13.04 everything happened fine until the system got ...
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Is there a specific folder for notification icons?
Is there a folder in /usr/share/icon which contains all the icons for the system tray? I'm not sure what size is used so I can't find it.
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How to remove the Ubuntu One icon from the top bar
Ever since I created a Ubuntu One account, the top bar has had the little Ubuntu One cloud icon in it. I prefer not to have very many icons in the top bar, and since Ubuntu One is easy to access, I ...
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Open an Application without an icon showing up in Unity (Ubuntu 12.4)
I'm trying to set it up such that after I open Pidgin, the application opens without showing an icon in the unity launcher.
Because Pidgin already has a way to open the window through the top-bar, I ...
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Icons left on top menu bar
I have an icon left on the top menu after an application froze and required "xkill" to unfreeze it. That part worked. The problem is the solution left the icons from the killed application on the top ...
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No desktop icons after uninstalling nemo
I tested nemo on Ubuntu 12.04. I mad it as default file manager.When I uninstalled it, desktop icons are disappeared and I can't do a right click on desktop to open menu.
How can I make Nautilus ...
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changed icons have white squares [duplicate]
when I change icon in ubuntu 13.04 it has white box.
how can I remove it??
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What is special about the hicolor icon theme?
As far as I can recall, whenever I install software using apt-get, I see Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... (sixth line from top) appear in my terminal window when the installtion is just ...
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Custom VirtualBox Launcher in GNOME 3
I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 with GNOME 3. My goal is to create a custom launcher that will launch a specific VirtualBox virtual machine, and I'd like it to have it's own icon.
From a purely functional ...
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Why do some icon themes have so many different sizes?
[12:24 PM] /usr/share/icons/hicolor $ ls
128x128 192x192 24x24 32x32 48x48 64x64 96x96 index.theme
16x16 22x22 256x256 36x36 512x512 72x72 icon-theme.cache scalable
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Peculiar icon specification in .desktop file
I have installed a Windows program (Evernote) on my Ubuntu 13.04 system using Wine. During installation a desktop shortcut was created containing (among others) this line:
Icon=63EC_Evernote.0
This ...
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Why do my Clementine Icons look like gnome default?
I am talking about the icons inside Clementine, not the indicator icons or unity launcher icons. I mean the ones almost on the bottom of the screen previous track, play, pause, next track.
After i ...
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I want desktop icons with text
I am running 12.04 and everything works really well. Except one thing: the icons on my desktop appear without text. They have correct icons, and when I click on an icon the correct file opens. I can ...
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no upper right icons with Ubuntu 12.10 and lightdm
I have a Ubuntu 12.10 server running in which I have installed lightdm. Now lightdm can boot and I can log in, but when I see the screen, I don't see ANY top right icon. So I cannot logout I cannot do ...
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How to refresh an icon that has been changed so the new one shows up?
I want to customize two icons in the top right indicator of the unity-panel, the one for everpad and the one for deluge.
I found this solution:
How do I merge two icon sets?
...and love it, it's ...
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Computer and home folder icon do not appear in cinnamon unless I boot into gnome classic first. (12.04 LTS)
New guy here :)
So, I have the respective checkboxes ticked for the home icon and the computer icon for them to supposedly appear in the desktop but no matter how many times I log in and out of ...
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White outline when selecting custom icon for folder on desktop?
I have selected a custom icon for a few folders on my desktop, and try as I may, I cannot get rid of the white outline around the said icons.
Is there a way to make the white outlines go away?
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how to get button icons on ubuntu 13.04?
I have enabled the check mark for buttons-have-icons and menus-have-icons in gconf-editor as in this post. These icons were visible in Ubuntu 12.04, but not in 13.04. What can I do to get back those? ...
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Icon themes not detected by KDE
I have been using KDE for a while. I installed a lot of themes on gnome but most of the themes don get detected here in kde ??? Why is that so ?? I like AwOken theme but it does not show up on KDE but ...
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Hide top bar icons on one montior only
I couldn't find a question like this, which might be because I don't have a clue how the top bar icons are named properly.
I am using 2 monitors and Ubuntu 12.04 with the standard interface (Unity ...
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Change color of Applet context menu font or background
As seen here http://i.imgur.com/9tySBEi.png, theres little contrast between the greys.
I'm using the FlatStudio theme with Faenza Dark icons. I'm assuming it's because the icons are for a dark theme, ...
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Why does space between apps and trash grown in Unity panel?
I have just installed Ubuntu 13.04 and love it, but I found a small thing that is making my OCD affect me.
When I add a new icon to the "side panel" it appears with the other icons are on the left ...
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How can I configure a launcher to show an application icon? [duplicate]
Some applications don't display icons when you create a launcher for them - you get the default Gnome launcher icon. How can I configure a custom launcher to show the icon? They are visible on the ...
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How do I get the unity “file” shortcut to go to existing windows instead of opening new ones
The unity "files" icon when initially clicked will open to the home folder, if you navigate to another mounted device and click the files icon it will open another window to the home folder instead of ...
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Can I use the indicator icons from Ubuntu Touch on the desktop version?
I am re-theming my Ubuntu 13.04 laptop to use an interface which looks more like that of Ubuntu Touch. One of the last things I need to complete the look are the indicator icons being used in Ubuntu ...
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Some icons from XFCE4 panel missing
I'm running Xubuntu 13.04 (xfce4-panel 4.10.0). The icons for Skype and Synapse are missing in the panel. Only a missing icon icon is shown.
The icons show correctly in the apps menu. I've tried ...
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How to make ubuntu black and white?
This might be a somewhat strange question.
I had an argument with a windows person and I told him that linux is so much more customization then he told me to prove it and I told him .....
Now I need ...
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Merge two different icons theme in Ubuntu [duplicate]
I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 and I installed 2 icon themes: Faenza-Radiance and Myelementary. I want to use Myelementary icon theme as main one and Faenza-Radiance icon theme on top system panel. How can I ...
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How to modify unity icons
So I want to change couple of software icons for example "rhythmbox" I would like to change it's icon
can any one tell me where this software icons are stored and is it even possible to modify them ...
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Icons for custom mime-type does not show up with Ubuntu-mono-dark theme
I manually installed LuxRender 1.2.1 under /usr/local/bin/ and it works fine and dandy. I then created 5 new mime-types for LuxRender *.lxs, *.lxo, *.lxm, *.lxv and *.flm file formats (scene, objects, ...
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I can't see my desktop icons in ubuntu 13.04
I just installed ubuntu 13.04 in my laptop Aspire-M3-5871TG and I can't see anything (neither icons, ...). Only is visible the desktop background but I can open and work with the terminal. Maybe the ...
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Set XFCE Running Task Icons
I am running Ubuntu 12.10 with XFCE (not Xubuntu) and I can't figure out how to set the icons that are used in the task bar / task switcher. In the application menu, GVim has an icon, but in my task ...
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I made a icon for burg in ubuntu 12.04 but icon not shown
I made a icon for burg in ubuntu 12.04 but icon not shown ??help
image format .png and i set to rgb with size 128x128 px in photoshop but it is'nt working in my burg,,can anyone tell me how to save ...
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What is the purpose of /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/mimetypes/?
Adding an Icon section in AddingMimeTypes has this:
Now we need to associate an icon with the MIME type. Get an SVG icon
and name it "text/extension .svg", or whatever your modified MIME type
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Is there any way to do not combine icons on taskbar in Uniti?
I would like to make this windows to display with two icons without merging it. I was searching for compiz settings and google and nothing was found.
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Context menu icons in some Qt apps missing
The context (right click) menu icons are missing in some Qt apps like Virtualbox or Skype.
Using:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface menus-have-icons true
fixes this problem for KDE apps ...
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Missing icons from tray
After rebooting system, I don't have icons in top right corner. All icons disappear. I read others solutions to similar problems, and nothing help.
