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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Shortcut Icons on the desktop do not work
My desktop computer has two drives each with two partitions apart from swap, boot. /dev/sda1 has Windows XP,programs and some data; sda2 and sdb1 have only data: sdb2 (40GB) has Kubuntu 12.04.01.
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identify human icons
This http://www.abclinuxu.cz/images/screenshots/1/5/172851-gnome-humanity-remix-caprice-7583565132942280442.png is screenshot of icons I have been using for years. I have recently updated to ubuntu ...
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How do I change Bleachbit's icon?
Bleachbit is a really useful application and I use it daily. However, its icon is not the best, so I would like to change it. I really don't want to download a new icon theme, I'm happy with the ...
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How to remove Unity Icon gloss
I recently installed the Nitrux–UMD icon theme, and I'm wondering how to turn off the Unity gloss that's being applied over the unity bar icons.
This is how it looks—
This is how it should look—
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How can I change the icons of window button?
How can I change the icons of window button? Is it possible?
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Empathy protocol icons
I'm surprised that Empathy can't display the protocol icons.
Even in the latest Ubuntu 12.10. I'd like to know why if someone can tell me.
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Sound Icon not appearing
I'm using 11.04 LTS. Everything is going fine. But the other day I booted up and went to use Youtube. I went to adjust the volume but the icon has gone, and the only way to adjust it is to either:
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No Desktop Icons Using Compiz Wallpaper [duplicate]
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS using the Gnome Classic desktop. Under CompizConfig I'm running the Desktop Cube and Wallpaper settings to have a cube with 4 different wallpapers. When using ...
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Icons for templates
I have some templates in my ~/Templates folder, but there is no icons in context menu for any of them except the default "Empty Document".
menus_have_icons is enabled
How to get/set them?
Ubuntu ...
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Wrong/corrupted icon in dash
I am facing a problem with the dash not showing proper/actual icons for certain applications such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Daily Mail. Instead of getting the standard icons for these applications, ...
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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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How can I programmatically change a file's icon?
If I select an icon in Nautilus and select Properties, I can click on the icon presented there. This gives me a file-chooser dialog to select a new icon image.
I would like to do this via a script of ...
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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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xmind portable icon appeared as question mark
I use xmind portable, the application is running well on my ubuntu 12.04 64bit. However, is there a way to change the "question mark icon" at launcher whenever i run xmind portable to anything else?
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Where are the .desktop icon files stored?
What system folder on Ubuntu 12.10 are the main menu .desktop icons stored at???
I am having trouble locating....
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change firefox icons
I am using ubuntu os 12.10 with faenza ambiance icon theme.
But with this theme , changed also firefox's icon theme . Is it possible to replace the icons with the default one ?
Here is a screenshot ...
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Lubuntu 12.10: Icon Display Problems
First off, I would like to let you know that I am new to Linux. I finally decided to give it a try and my first project was installing Lubuntu on an old PC and using it for a media server for my PS3.
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Ubuntu 12.04LTS - Dash home application question mark icon
I have installed PhpStorm application in my Ubuntu 12.04 but in the Dash Home (and in Dash Bar also) appears a Question Mark icon.
I have tried to re-config the shorcut, but it not works (just the ...
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Computer, Home icons disappear from desktop after reboot
I previously enabled the display of the Computer, Home, Trash, and Network Servers icons on the desktop on Ubuntu 12.04, probably using MyUnity. Today, I installed a custom icon set and after ...
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Unity Icon for a bash ran program
So I downloaded the .tar.gz for eclipse, extracted and set it up.
I created a .desktop file so I could dock it in unity.
I then want to be able to have a bash script open the program from the ...
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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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Can an app in `/opt/extras` install themeable icons in `/usr/share`?
My application Variety Wallpaper Changer runs from /opt/extras and uses an indicator icon. I would like to make this indicator icon theme-specific. As far as I understand the standard way is to ...
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How to resize a folder name area in Ubuntu 12.04?
I am having folders on my desktop. The folders names exceed the folders icons. So that makes me difficult to read the folder names whenever I align all folders in a same line. What I want is to ...
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Change icons of a specific extension [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I change the icon for a particular file type?
I currently use an extension .sml. By default it looks like a video file. I want to change all the icons of the .sml ...
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two Libre icons bug in Unity [closed]
I have a problem with 12.04. LibreOffice icons in Unity behaves strange when I'm opening Office files via Nautilus. I have two of them.
First both Word and Excel documents is shown with gray Libre ...
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How do I remove the workspace switcher from the Unity dock in 12.10? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Remove the Workspace Switcher launcher from Unity launcher?
This was the go-to way to do this prior to 12.10, but in 12.10 you don't have the ...
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Desktop launcher for terminal apps
I have software to run opensim, it requires the terminal window to start, run and shut down.
I have 3 instances of it running in 3 terminal windows, with mysql for the 3 databases.
Normally to start ...
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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 see if a contact has video/voice capability in Empathy?
I'm using empathy for the first few weeks now on Ubuntu 12.10.
I can't find any symbols indicating a contact has the ability to do a video chat or voice chat...
Though I can see a "Mobile" symbol ...
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Fill empty space in Inkscape?
I am new to Inkscape, and it is a little complex. I have been trying to make vector/SVG version of PNG icons I am working on. I use Path>Trace Bitmap to create vector versions of my PNG. My issue is ...
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What happened to my Unity Application?
Something is wrong when I try to search some applications in the dash. I don't know how to describe it, but you can see it in the attached pictures:
I'm using unity 12.04 LTS, with Faenza icons, ...
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How to replace tray icons for applications in cinnamon
I have my cinnamon bar with tray icons (skype, pidgin, dropbox) next to cinnamon ones. I'd like to replace them with my own icons so that they have similar design to those remaining.
Where should I ...
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Re-order active applications in right navigation bar
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and I want to know is there a way to re-order the item in my navigation bar. In windows 7 it is possible to group elements and re-order their position.
To be more specific. ...
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How to change the icon of an aplicatication at the LxPanel on Lubuntu?
After installing Lubuntu 12.10, I decided to install IDLE 3 (from the official Ubuntu repository), but something unexpected happened, its icon gets bigger then the LxPanel and all the another ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Boots to purple screen
I know this question has been tackled in a couple different threads but I've tried what I could from those and have not resolved the issue. I have just a basic understanding of this system so feel ...
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Can't resize some icons
I upgraded to 12.10 yesterday and I am having a problem. Icons of my files are shown as the icon image's original size.
I tried to resize the icons but it did not work! But the normal size icons ...
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How to change the width of desktop icon title in Gnome?
I want to make the title of the icon (from the screenshot below) narrower. How can this be done?
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Where does unity store app shortcuts and how to get rid of nonfunctional/duplicate shortcuts?
I have lots of duplicate icons (with different sizes), or even icons without title in my dash. I want to get rid of those, but don't know how. I have observed, that when logging in as a different ...
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The eclipse application icon is huge in Unity's dash
I have a problem with the manual installation of Eclipse Juno.
After unpacking the tarball to /opt, adding a symlink from /usr/local/bin and adding the following to a new file ...
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How to tweak the appearance of desktop icons in Lubuntu?
In Ubuntu 11.10 with Nautilus it was possible to tweak the appearance of desktop icons by editing nautilus.css as I had posted in How can I change the text colour on my desktop icons?.
In Xubuntu ...
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How can I modify the knetworkmanager icon in my kde taskbar?
I am using kubuntu 12.04 Precise 64 on my notebook. Almost everything works fine.
I would like to modify the colors of the icon(s) used by knetworkmanager to indicate wifi online.
Right now, I am ...
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Launcher icon differences in pixels between monitors usign same resolution
Today I got to test a Samsung SyncMaster 2043nwx. My normal monitor was a 1080p Soniview TV that supports 1920x1080. I use 1680x1050 (16:10) as my common resolution. My amazed is when I see that the ...
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Crash During Update Deleted ALL panels; can't open terminal; can't see icons [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Recover the package manager after crash during update
So I was upgrading Ubuntu from 11.10 to 12.04 in the terminal after recovering my system from a previous crash, and ...
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Gnome Shell task switcher and Wine applications: only generic icon displayed
When switching applications with the task switcher in Gnome Shell, only the generic "glass of wine" icon is displayed. This is the same for all Wine apps I tried. Icons in the activities menu are ...
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Toshiba L750-22Z. Battery icon missing [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
No battery status icon
I bought a Toshiba L750-22Z running Ubuntu 12.04. Everything it's working fine except I can't see the icon of the battery and I never know how ...
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Does anyone know how to change Firefox icons?
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 ...
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How can I change the icon of a fogger app
I've made several fogger apps (without any code, so basically they're just hyperlinks in the unity launcher). How can I change the icon of these 'apps'? (Do I, for example, need to make a stylesheet?)
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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 to create an Icon theme/set for Ubuntu? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I make a Theme from scratch for Unity?
I am looking to create an Icon theme for Ubuntu Unity. This is a first time effort, so I was looking for answers from ...
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How to group icons based on category on the desktop?
I have a lot icons on the desktop and I want to manage them by grouping icons of related programs. However, I haven't found any utility like fences in Windows.
Have you met any utility like that yet?
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