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What are the design guidelines for appindicator icons?

I am creating a Unity AppIndicator using Python + PyGObject, but I wish for it's icon to be in standard Ubuntu style. Where can I find appropriate guidelines for using colours (or is it just ...
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How to see the indicators only for apps in current workspace?

This worked fine in 11.10, but today I upgraded to 12.10 and I can't remember what I had to do to get this to work correctly. What I want is: When in a workspace, the only icons in the taskbar should ...
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Indicator-brightness icon on panel can't change in Radiance theme

I'm referring to this indicator: There are no options to change the icon theme for the indicator on the panel, and the default color theme looks ugly on Radiance theme. Are there options I don't ...
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Faience icons for battery indicator

I'm using the Faience Azur icon theme, and my Battery indicator displays ugly icons when the computer is plugged in and at some other times too: (I'll add more problematic icons when I see them) ...
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Icon for indicator-cpufreq using Faenza icon theme

I installed indicator-cpufreq but it doesn't work with the Faenza icon theme. Is there a way to make the indicator use the icon from the ubuntu-mono-dark icon theme?
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Write application indicator with no icon

I wrote an application indicator that displays information about my monthly network consumption. I do not want it to have an icon next to the text I display. How do I write an application indicator ...
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Unable to show correctly symbolic icons with appindicator

I'm creating an app under Ubuntu 12.04 and using libappindicator and Vala. I want to use a symbolic icon, to ensure that the colors are adapted to the background in the status bar. Unfortunately, I'm ...
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Can I customize only an application's indicator icon?

Can I change this Easystroke icon: but not change this one? I'm interested the general answer for any application, not one that is specific to Easystroke.
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How to tweak indicator-session icon?

Which icon is indicator-session using? I want to tweak it manually but I didn't manage to find it out under /usr/share/icons. Is there a general way to find out which icon a certain application is ...
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How can I convert a coloured icon to a monochrome one?

I recently compiled goldendict from source. To my dismay I discovered that there were no monochrome appindicator icons included. At the moment I am stuck with this: I tried converting the icons to ...
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How do I change Clementine's play/pause indicator icons?

This is how the Clementine indicator displays play/pause: It's a minor detail, but I feel that the play and pause icons just don't go with the monochrome design of the panel. In order to change ...
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Where are the stock-icon-names defined for the unity-panel-service indicators and notify-OSD?

Layout cases in the Notification | Ubuntu App Developer document states that ... using non-existing (stock-)icon-names ... use one of the new icon-name (see icons) ... and that this (icons ...
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How to change the default application icons of Gnome Shell's top right area

Im using Gnome 3 with Gnome Shell, my problem is some of the applications that have indicators in the top right area dont have icons that fit with the others. This is how my indicator icons look ...
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How can I reduce the size of the icon indicator?

Whenever a mouse is placed on any of the icons in the side launcher. I get rid black box which has the name of the icon inside it in white letters. It really annoys me. Please help me get rid of it. I ...
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Change spacing of icons in Indicator Applet Complete, preferably by editing a config file?

Changing icon spacing within Application Indicator Complete. If at all possible, I'd like to space them with about 1-3px between each one. https://launchpad.net/indicator-applet [Website] I'm ...
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Change the Synergy notification icon?

I use Synergy to sync mouse and keyboard between desktops. My question is, how do I change the Synergy indicator icons in Unity? For reference, I am using the Faenza icon theme, and this is what ...
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Battery icon changed?

I don't know what happened, but today when I logged in to Ubuntu 12.04, the battery icon looked strange (when unplugged): When it's plugged, the icon looks as always been, the problem is when it's ...
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Creating an icon for indicator applet in Vala

I'm writing a program that uses a panel indicator, and I want to use an icon I've created. I can package the application so it installs my icon in usr/share/icons but I can't get the icon to show up ...
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Creating Unity appindicator icons

I want to create attention appindicator icon for my application. They are usually blue color, but I need exact color code in order to make it integrate in unity well. I found nothing on ...
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Detect GTK theme change in runtime

I am using this code to set appropriate appindicator icon for my application. Basically I set separate mono dark/light icon for Ambiance and Radiance theme in order to integrate my app into Unity ...
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Missing indicator/notification icons for some applications in Ubuntu 11.04 Classic? [closed]

I am using 11.04 with Ubuntu Classic (no effects) session. I found that all the default applications have their indicator icons working fine. But for any other application ,which I installed like ...
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Why is there no clear day weather icon in the ubuntu mono icons set?

All the other weather icons seem to be present, but when the weather is clear or sunny, the icon reverts to an ugly yellow sun instead of the lovely mono icons. Why is this icon missing?
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Project Hamster indicator: mono icons

Does anybody know where to find the mono icons described here? The download links are broken.
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aMSN icon tray, where is it?

I opened aMSN and closed it, but when I try to re-open it, it says that I already have an aMSN session open, but I cannot see my icon anywhere to re-open it.
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How do I get the names in my icon theme for use with pythons appindicator module?

How do I get the strings I can insert instead of 'gtk-execute'? #!/usr/bin/python import gobject import gtk import appindicator if __name__ == "__main__": ind = ...
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Why is the icon for the 'copy dialog' indicator a mouse pointer?

When copying or moving a large file I have noticed the icon for the copy dialog indicator is a mouse pointer. Is this suppose to be, or is it a bug? This is really confusing.
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Flags in unity keyboard indicator

I would like to apply Language Flags for Faenza and Elementary to Unity keyboard indicator. But old "hack" doesn't seem to work on it. Is it somehow possible?
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custom libindicator icon is not displayed

I want to change the statusicon of my own little reminder program. Currently I am using GTK.StatusIcon but I want to use a ApplicationIndicator. Therefore I created an own Icon and moved it to: ...
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Is it possible to change the order of icons in the indicator applet?

Is it possible to change the order of icons shown in the indicator applet? With Tomboy indicator, Weather indicator, Clipboard-manager indicator, Ubuntu One and Dropbox indicators and a Battery Status ...
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Missing Dropbox indicator-applet icon, how do I get it back?

I'm currently running Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit and wanted to change my Dropbox indicator-applet icon to make it look more uniform with the other icons. I found this suggestion of a PPA and package to try ...
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How can I change Dropbox's indicator applet icon?

After installing Dropbox I was happy to see that although the installer said it would be version 0.6.7, it actually installed Dropbox 1.1.0. This version includes the new application indicator. ...
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How can I remove the Skype panel icon in Ubuntu 12.04 (and earlier)?

As I use the Docky Skype indicator, and the green Skype icon doesn't look good next to all the grey ones -- it would be nice to remove the icon from the system tray. Is this possible? How can I do ...