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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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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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How to change ubuntu app menu icon color

How can I change the color of ubuntu show application icon for active, hover and normal sate.
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Guake tray icon is missing in 20.10

I have Ubuntu 20.10 that I installed just couple of days ago. I haven't do any special modding so far. I've kept everything stock - kernel, Gnome. However, I installed Guake terminal, that works as ...
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USB device icon does not show up

I have a desktop machine that was recently upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04. After the upgrade, nothing happens when I plug in a USB drive. No icons show up in the dock, and no icons show up in the ...
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System Tray Icons Stretching on Mouse Hovering

I'm on Ubuntu 20.04.1 with Gnome 3.36.3. I don't know why, almost every time I hover with my mouse over the system tray icons, they will resize automatically to fit the tray. I believe this must be a ...
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Wrong icon of Skype in the system tray

I have installed Skype with snap (and tried with a deb package). When I minimize it to the system tray the skype icon is not showing but instead a settings-like wheel. I don't know what's causing ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 gnome desktop: all icons, font for all application is very small

In my newly installed ubuntu 18.04 I have all the icons and fonts for all applications are extremely small. For example, below is a screenshot from my pinta application, tools section I can hardly see ...
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Trash Bin icons missing. How to get them back?

In Ubuntu 18.04, when my Trash Folder is empty, Nautilus shows this: The default Trash bin icon seems to have disappeared. Not only that, but the Trash bin icon in the shortcut menu on the left of ...
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How do you move icons on Plasma desktop with keyboard?

Running Kubuntu 20.04. Is there a way to move desktop icons using only the keyboard??? I have quite a few widgets on my desktop (Plasmataker included :) and when i add a new icon on the desktop, ...
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GIMP 2.10.20 snap install has no icons in the menus

I have just recently installed Ubuntu 20.04, and soon after installed the GIMP 2.10.20 snap package. I noticed that almost all of the dropdown menus and context menus had no icons next to them, unlike ...
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how can I adjust gnome shell top bar icon alignment on ubuntu 20.04

I've just install Ubuntu 20.04. I added many gnome-shell extensions, but the top bar's icon alignment is weired. Some icons overlap other icons. How can I adjust icons' alignment??
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How can I get snap icons to use my icon theme and not change back after updates?

Snap .desktop files are stored in /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications. The icons used there have a hard coded path. I can change the path to just the application name so that it uses my gnome icon ...
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Is it possible to have separate icons for Openbox active and inactive windows?

Pretty sure this is not the place to ask such a question, but I did not find any Openbox forums. Anyways, I am wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to have separate icons for the Openbox ...
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Are the LibreOffice SVG icon sets available in Ubuntu?

Arch Linux has several sets of SVG icons included with their libreoffice packages. These icons look nice on medium-high DPI screens: On Ubuntu, there is no "Colibre (SVG)" option in the icon style ...
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File icons with clocks

How do I fix my icons? I tried installing adwaita full icons theme with the below command. sudo apt install adwaita-icon-theme-full But it didn't fix it. When I change to adwaita they just look ...
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Icon name to use in a desktop file when different icon themes, use different names for the same application

The Question I want to know if there is a way to provide multiple icon choices in desktop files. For example, in the desktop file I have for android studio, this is the icon line: Icon=/opt/android-...
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Absurdly small icons in Xubuntu

As you can see, I can't figure out a way to enlarge only these three icons. Besides, my login interface is also absurdly small. My Xubuntu version is 18.04, and the resolution is 3840*1994 I ...
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How to add icons to the filesymbols?

I am facing the issue of not having any icons associated with my file-types. Like for a directory containing a LaTeX document, only the pdf and the synctex.gz have icons, but I'd like to also see ...
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Weird cancel icon keeps popping up?

This icon continually pops up when I'm using my computer no matter what I'm doing. I'm on a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 and it's really bothering me as it wasn't an issue when I was running ...
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Top-Panel Icons Become Empty

The system is Ubuntu MATE version 18.04.2 using the "Familiar" panel layout. I have installed a number of launchers in the Top Panel bar, but am having a problem with a couple of them. Both of those ...
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Sync icon in every file or folder after uninstall overgrive

I need to know how to find the script or directive which add a "sync" icon in every file and folder I synced with overgrive. After I uninstalled overgrive, the icons remain. I want to delete that ...
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Determine if icon is being used

I saw this icon hb-icon.svg in /usr/share/app-install/icons/ And it is 3.4 Mb !! Why is an icon so big? Can I tell if it is being used so if it isn't, I can delete that monster?
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Icon Theme not found while opening Ktorrent

$ ktorrent Icon theme "ubuntu-mono-dark" not found. Icon theme "Mint-X" not found. Icon theme "elementary" not found. Icon theme "gnome" not found. I am getting this error when I am trying to open ...
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Cannot open folders from icons on desktop

I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 and noticed sometime that I cannot open any folders from the icons on my desktop anymore. The following error is given in /var/log/syslog when trying: $ cat /var/log/syslog | tail ...
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Some tray Icons look weird

I just installed Ubuntu for the first time, and noticed that some icons in tray (appindicator or whatever its called here) are ugly, some are nice: Any way to fix this? p.s. using hi-dpi screen, ...
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Adding custom icons to activity bar?

I've got a couple of scripts which periodically display a message with notify-send after running their respective commands. This works well, but I was wondering if there is a relatively easy/...
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Hide desktop icons for certain mounted volumes

I have fixed and removable disks/volumes and they all show an icon on the desktop. I only want the removable mounts shown. There is a dconf setting to show/hide icons, but it shows/hides all of them. ...
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Grouping Icons from Multiple Eclipse Installs

I have two different Eclipse installs in my Ubuntu 18.04 with different plugins I create two .desktop files: Install A [Desktop Entry] Name=Eclipse Java Type=Application StartupNotify=true ...
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Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS has missing icons for system apps such as "Software Updater" and "Calculator"

fist time-long time here. This is actually the first issue I've had where I couldn't resolve it through questions that have already been asked on these forums. So, I noticed my issue after upgrading ...
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Unmounted/mounted drives in dock 18.04

So upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04, how do I get my passwd protected drives to show in dock/launcher? It is very frustrating to use nautilus->other locations and then mount+passwd, then you have to close ...
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Nautilus: No custom icons in the bookmark area

It seems since at least 17.04. The bookmark menu doesn't show the icon assigned to a folder but instead just shows a generic folder icon like so: Now both of these folder show up in the actual file ...
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Why does Gimp show a second icon when running it?

Why does Gimp 2.10.4 show a second icon when running it?? One is brown and one is grey next to it. Is this a gui bug or a useful feature for whatever? After moving the grey icon whithin the launcher/...
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Is it possible to change the behaviour/style of the "notification-area"-envelope-icon in GNOME Flashback?

I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04. I'm using GNOME Flashback and I'm not entirely satisfied how the notification-area currently works/looks, specifically with notifications for new ...
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16.04 It is possible to show user icon next to my name?

It is possible to show user icon next to my name like in 12.04 version? Like this: Thanks for answers.
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Notification area icons missing after removing indicator panel [Xubuntu 18.10]

I removed the Indicator Panel in order to restore the dropbox icon per this suggestion, which also needed me to then restore pulseaudio to get its own icon. However the only thing in the Notification ...
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Interactive icon / .desktop

I'm wondering if it's possible to create an interactive .desktop file. An icon to a directory you can put on the desktop that changes when something is stored in the directory. What I want is create ...
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Graphical Bug on recent 16.04 update, missing text/icons etc

Since about a week ago, after going through a routine software upgrade for Ubuntu 16.04, I have this weird graphics issue where certain text or icons will be blacked out. This makes it very hard to ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 : Setting attribute metadata::custom-icon not supported

I tried following the steps in [this] (Is it possible to insert icons on folders with the "gio set" command?) However, when I run the command I get Setting attribute metadata::custom-icon ...
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Spyder no starting in Ubuntu bu GUI

I'm not able to launch Spyder by GUI in Ubuntu through the icon is there. When I click on the icon, spyder icon appears on the launcher and disappears soon. Nothing happens then. I had installed ...
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How to fix incorrect "Show Applications" button icon?

I am on Ubuntu 18.04 with GNOME. I am currently using the Pop theme, but I don't think that matters much. Contrary to the question and answer here, the view-app-grid-symbolic.svg icon is not what is ...
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When resuming from suspend, dekstop icons glitch out. (nvidia problem?)

When resuming after a suspend my desktop icons glitch out like shown here; https://imgur.com/a/GrKjbth This does not happen consistenly however; it happens randomly. specs; (NEOFETCH) ccpeters@...
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Is there a way to set icons on the dock bar just like Unity?

I'm trying to make my Gnome desktop look like my old Unity desktop as much as possible, and I have noticed that I can't put some icons on the dock bar. I've done some research and found some code ...
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mate-power-manager not showing battery tray icon after ubuntu 18.04 upgrade

After upgrading to 18.04, the battery tray icon from mate-power-manager simply disappeared As everyone can imagine, a tray icon showing the battery load level is extremely important on laptops How ...
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SVG files show as black matted outlines

I've tried everything but I still can't get these SVG files to show up as anything but the all-black matted version of themselves. Transparency AROUND the image is fine, internally, just black. ...
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Slack icon missing from top right corner in Ubuntu 16.04

Slack icon is missing and shows this icon in its place. Can someone help me out here?
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Why are all icon themes showing invalid folder icons

A couple days ago, I had ubuntu 17.04, but started experiencing issues with my icons: My file explorer's icons (folders, files, minimize, maximize, close buttons, create new folder button, etc.) and ...
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