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The images that a desktop environment uses to identify files, folders, and applications. Icons are a core component of a GUI and are a fundamental part of navigating any computer today.

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Ubuntu 14.04LTS Icons and Theme not working

Recently I've installed Ubuntu 14.04, works perfectly, but I tried to change the icons (Numix Circle) and theme (Numix, gtk I guess) with Unity Tweak tool. None of the installed themes or icons are ...
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How can I remove Google Chrome from Unity launcher?

When I first installed Ubuntu, I installed google chrome directly by a terminal by running some commands that I found in another thread, I don't remember which ones, something like apt-get I think. I ...
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what is this panel indicator/menu bar icon?

Had this panel indicator pop up on my menu bar...anyone know what it is? The icon is a Satellite dish with a computer monitor. I've been looking around online but haven't found any info. My computer ...
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Desktop Icons not showing on desktop

Just installed Ubuntu 14 and I'm brand new to it. I have programs that are installed I see when I search but do not show in the dock to the left or on the desktop. How do I add desktop icons? I tried ...
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Notify -osd - change volume/brightness notification bar

I'm running Ubuntu 14.10, and I figured out, that it is possible to change the default icons used for notifications (basically by adding notification-audio-volume-high.svg etc. to your current theme (...
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Application Indicator icon not changing until clicked

I have an application indicator which shows the moon phase/orientation as its icon (along with a text label). When the indicator does an update (several times per hour), the icon is recreated (as an ...
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xUbuntu Default desktop Icons do not display?

Even though I have the default icons set to display in Settings, they do not display. See the image below. Ideas????
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Why is the Tomboy Note indicator icon duplicating itself?

I have a bug with Tomboy Notes application on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Whenever I boot my system, clicking the original panel, the icon doubles. And every word that I type and delete in the search bar, the ...
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change folder icons in ubuntu-mono-dark theme

I'm running 13.10 with Unity, and I have a "problem": I'm using Nemo, because I prefer it over Nautilus (for obvious reasons imo), and it works really great. The drawback of Nemo is, that it is kind ...
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How to enable notifications while changing brightness and/or volume?

I'm using Ubuntu Gnome 13.10 (Gnome Shell 3.8). When I change the volume or brightness via hotkeys or my volume +/- buttons on my keyboard I do not get the notification in the middle of the screen. ...
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How to revert Ubuntu 13.10 icons

I installed an icon pack and wish to revert back to the original icon pack. How do you revert to the original pack?
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Icons and bars on desktop not showing [duplicate]

I am using ubuntu 12.10 and today after i updated my software, when the computer restarted, the icons and menu bars on the desktop did not show. The a icons on the desktop itself still showed but ...
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Dynamically change the application icon

The icon used for the app is in the .desktop file but is it possible to change this dynamically? You can change the count but not the icon. Is there an API for doing this like OS X?
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How do I change Nautilus 3.6 symbolic icons?

I have the new Nautilus 3.6 installed and the new symbolic icons for Home and Trash don't fit with the rest of my icon theme. How would I be able to change these icons? Is there a certain name I must ...
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How to get icons in pcmanfm Ubuntu 12.10 with only fluxbox [duplicate]

I installed Ubuntu 12.10 via mini-iso, after that I installed xinit, xorg, fluxbox, xterm, pcmanfm , chromium-browser and lxappearance. There is for now one set of icons, in lxappearance I chose the ...
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Show desktop icon in lancher in unity 2D

I would like to have a "Show desktop" icon in my launcher. I've seen that there are already some threads about this issue but none of them solve the problem for Unity 2D (which I'm forced to use), ...
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desktop icon not showing

I have installed ubuntu 12.04 and using it with gnome. I can not see my computer icon, home folder icon in my desktop. In Cinnamon settings the options to show them is enabled. Thank you!
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Launcher tooltip display issues [closed]

I've just installed Ubuntu 12.04.1, and it seems that I have some issues with the launcher: if I hover the mouse on an icon, it shows a horizontal line instead of the icon's name. If I hover it again, ...
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How do I fix screen with no icons at start-up?

I just downloaded Ubuntu from a CD and the installation went great. I started up the computer, selected Ubuntu, put in name and password, but then the screen I get every time is just the Ubuntu pink ...
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How do I change the Unity icon color background?

Basically I want to change the light grey background of rhthmbox unity icon by a light green one or another color. Well the idea is to find a tweak to operate for each app background light color. So......
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Increase icons size in GNOME Shell 3.4 Dash

How do I increase the size of icons in the GNOME Shell Dash? I have tried http://abhizweblog.blogspot.in/2011/06/gnome3-change-icon-size.html and tried changing the /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/dash....
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Libreoffice3.5 applications opening in new icon

Whenever I open a program from Libreoffice3.5, it will open with its own launcher icon. For example, if I click on my docked "Writer", it will open in another icon. I've also noticed that these ...
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Is there a Unity launcher progress bar for Transmission?

Like UnityFox (and the Nautilus launcher), is there a way to have Transmission's launcher show the progress of a download?
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Autostart app with proper icon in unity launcher

One can autostart an application such that it launches on session start with an xdg desktop file in ~/.config/autostart (or /etc/xdg/autostart). But my application (a python/gtk/webkit/html5 app) ...
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Icon for java is low resolution on launcher

On Ubuntu Oneiric, I am mildly annoyed by the icon that apparently Java programs give themselves by default. It is too low a resolution. I have 'emblem' set as the overlay icon for Compiz's scale ...
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Gnome shell with desktop icons without unity file manager [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Problem with gnome3-shell (top taskbar) I have new Ubuntu 11.10 and I installed gnome-shell instead Unity. I want to add some icons to desktop, but when I enable file manager ...
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How to modify an icon in the Unity Launcher?

When I start Eclipse and add it to the Unity Launcher, I get a ? symbol as shown in the screen shot instead of the Eclipse icon. The same happens for some other applications also and I am not able to ...
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No app icons in menus

I have enabled icons in menus, and most of them show up well (folder icons, file icons, save icons, etc.). But whenever an app tries to use an icon specific to itself, such as GIMP, it replaces that ...
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Is there a way to change the icon of a running application on the Gnome panel?

I would like to change the icon of running applications like Opera. When running both Opera Next and Opera, the two versions both appear at the top panel, but both are in red. I want to change the ...
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Uninstalled aplications still show launcher icons under installed aplications?

The question is in the title, I always remove applications that I do not use after installing or upgrading, this includes games etc (wish it was possible to install Ubuntu with no applications then ...
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How can I add file/folder icons?

How can I create new icons for files or folders? I can add them to the icon theme, so that I can access them by saying iconname in a launcher or notification, but I don't know how to make them show up ...
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How can I fix corrupted icons on task bar?

Just installed Kubuntu and corrupted application icons appear randomly on my task bar. Does it happen to anyone else? Here's how it looks like:
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How to set the icon for a file extension, in a portable way, without sudo

I am creating an app that wants to install an icon for an application-specific extension (.crystalopen), in a way that works not just on Ubuntu/GNOME but also is portable to other desktop environments ...
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Why is the icon so large in the menu bar in 23.04?

The icon size in the menu bar becomes unreasonably large after I upgraded from 22.10 to 23.04. Also, the alignment of the arrow seems to be off as well... Can refer to the screenshot below. Anyone ...
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App icons are not shown in top bar after upgrade Ubuntu to 22.04

There are several apps such as slack, safeeyes, skype and etc. that when running in background, you can see the icon on the top bar. But after updatig my Ubuntu from 20.04 to 22.04 it is not shown any ...
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Wayland/Ubuntu 22.04 mouse cursor icon not responding on some apps

I am on ubuntu 22.04 with "Mesa Intel® Graphics (ADL GT2)" graphics. Clicking and everything else works, only cursor icon is not appropriate for its position on screen. Some apps show proper ...
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Can't launch Google Chrome after upgrade to 22.04

I've just upgraded from 20.04 to 22.04. Chrome was working fine on 20.04 After first reboot, Chrome was missing from activities. I realised I had used a third party repository so I uninstalled google-...
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Associate custom icons to specific extensions on Xubuntu/Xfce

First, sorry about my English btw and also sorry if a similar question has been asked before. Context: I've installed lutris to manage some windows games easily, in this case "osu!". There ...
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Same WM_CLASS, separate launcher icons

I am running Ubuntu 20.04. I have several emacs windows open. Some of them are grouped together in the launcher but one of them shows as a separate icon. Running "xprop WM_CLASS" for each of ...
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Number of unread messages in system tray kmail icon

In previous versions of KDE, the system tray icon of KMail showed the number of unread messages on the mail icon. For instance, in Kubuntu 14.04 I had the following: In recent versions of KDE the ...
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How to make icon show in xfce panel for python script?

This appears to be the same question as How to add launcher icon for python script? but the solution given there doesn't seem to work for me. I have an executable tkinter script for which I have made ...
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How to fix gone dock icons after update to Ubuntu 20.04

After I updated to Ubuntu 20.04 all icons are gone from the dock. The icons come back a few moments after I open any application, but they never show up right after I log in. I tried to reset to ...
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Empty top bar icons are added every time I suspend my system in Ubuntu 21.10 with GNOME Desktop Environment

I recently updated to Ubuntu 21.10. However, I noticed something strange: Since the update, the top-bar icons move further and further to the left. When I restart Ubuntu, the icons are again right ...
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How to remove the battery icon from the topbar and stop estimating battery life?

I have moved to ubuntu(21.04) from Windows recently. So I know very little about linux. I have an old laptop and its battery is dead. I run the laptop directly from the charger. At the topbar it keeps ...
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Why I can't change position of this application icon in the launcher? I can't move from last icon position

I have installed STS (Spring Tool Suite) IDE on Ubuntu 20.04 and I am finding the following problem with the icon in the launcher. The problem is that executing this application, it correctly start ...
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Icons are stretched after upgrade to 20.04

I upgraded to 20.04 earlier. One problem I couldn't find information about is that when large icons are used (Application and search), the icons are stretched - they appear too tall and overlap with ...
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How to solve the weird cancel popup icon in ubuntu 20.04?

I am using ubuntu 20.04 and a big weird cancel icon pops up continuosly and letters can't be type at that time..It seriously giving me headache.How to solve it? Edit:I figured out that when I enter ...
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Icons in the overview search/show applications view appear vertically stretched, out of their containers

In ubuntu 20.04, the icons seem to be vertically stretched out of their containers. Screenshot I've tried disabling all gnome extensions, but this still happens. I've also tried wayland and X11. Is ...
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Can't drag icons from second display

I'm currently using a laptop with Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, GNOME Version 3.36.8. I have a monitor connected to my laptop. I can freely drag and move icons across my desktop on the main laptop display, but ...
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Nemo file manager - Context menu - Actions

I have Ubuntu 20.4. I have installed Nemo file manager to manage the desktop icons. I have added a custom action. What I am trying to achieve is: Enable icons for the Nemo Context menu (Icons are ...
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