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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“clean up by name” to the right, like on a mac [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I auto align desktop icons on right side?
Hi,
How do I "clean up by name" so that my icons are sorted from the right instead from the left as it is now.
I have ...
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Sharp preview thumbnails on Desktop
Since one can change the symbol size, e.g. for a preview thumbnail of a photo file on desktop, the preview looks very unsharp and unattractive. Is there a way to modify this? E.g. let the thumbnail ...
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How to fix blury Docky Icons?
I've looked everywhere online, and I cannot find an answer to this... My Docky Icons are blurry. I currently have the Faenza icons enabled on Ubuntu 11.10, and they look great everywhere else on my ...
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In Unity, how do I make desktop shortcuts (a la Windows, OSX)?
So, I'm using Ubuntu for the first time, and I like it in general. I've got this problem with the launcher, though: I can't drag and drop ANYTHING on to the desktop, only make shortcuts and folders ...
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How to remove a mounted volume icon on the desktop?
Each time my 3G Vodafone k4505 Pen get's mounted by the system, I get a icon on my desktop.
I would like to NOT have that icon each time I connect this 3g usb pen.
How can we accomplish this?
Thanks ...
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Turn off thumbnails for desktop icons
How do you turn off the thumbnails for desktop icons?
EDIT following Oli's answer: Is it possible to do this for the desktop icons without affecting the normal behaviour of the nautilus file manager?
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How do I hide a specific volume from the desktop, but keep all others?
I find the icons that show up when I plug a flash drive useful, as much as SD cards and devices. However, the icon to my Windows partition is useless. How can I hide it?
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Folders in Home appear all over desktop
I have just installed Ubuntu 11.04, and I am surprised to see icons cluttering up my whole desktop. All the folders and files under Home are represented. But if I delete the icons, the folder or file ...
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How can I find the location of an icon of a launcher in use?
I have a launcher on my desktop and want to add another one manually with the same icon.
When I go to the preferences of the existing launcher and click the icon, it doesn't take me to the folder ...
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How can I hide the text under the desktop icons?
I want to display the desktop icons without the text. I only have the Home and Trash icons on the desktop. Any sugestions?
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How can I auto align desktop icons on right side?
I keep my docky dock on left side of desktop and it overlaps desktop icons and their names when intellihide mode is on. Is there a way to align desktop icons on right side always, mac style?
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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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Where is the place where actual size of desktop icons is stored?
As one can resize the icons on desktop (not within nautilus) through righ-click menu: "Resize icon..", so where is the size stored for that certain file.
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How to Auto-Arrange Desktop Icons?
How do I enable auto-arrange (not just "auto-align") for desktop icons, like in Windows?
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How can I set desktop icons to auto-align to the right side of the screen?
Now that unity has the bar on the left side of the screen, I find that it ends up obscuring desktop icons since desktop icons auto align top-bottom/left-right. To correct this I need to constantly ...
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How do I hide the drive icons of my other partitions from the desktop?
I have the hard disk icon for each of my partitions on my Gnome desktop.
I want a clean look, how do I hide them?
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How to remove “Desktop” option from Alt-Tab menu? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Removing “Show Desktop” from application switcher
When I press Alt-Tab it display all opened programs and desktop icon. I never use this desktop option and ...
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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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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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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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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 .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 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 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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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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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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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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Dropbox icon in tray is missing
I have Ubuntu 12.04 and today when I start my laptop I saw that the dropbox icon in op bar in the indicator applet is missing and I don't know how can I get it back.
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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 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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Can I make my desktop icons smaller?
I would like to make all my desktop icons slightly smaller.
I know I can do each one manually but that is impractical given I create and destroy about 20 files a day on my desktop.
I need an answer ...
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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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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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How to preserve icons and emblems when copying files
When I copy a file through Nautilus its emblem or icon is preserved, but if I do it with cp or rsync through CLI it isn't. Why, and how to fix it?
By preserved I mean that icons that I have manually ...
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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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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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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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Battery icon with problem with some themes
I'm using the elementary icon theme from their PPA, it's great, but have some problems. In almost all cases I fix it without any problem, but I can't solve this one.
The battery icon is "missing" and ...
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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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Launcher icons invisible, still work in 12.04
Rebooted my PC today to find that my launcher icons are not showing on the launcher bar, even though they are still there. I can hover over the launcher bar and see (via the mouse tool-tip) that they ...
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How can I change the folder icon?
I know how to change an icon this way. Also that doesn't work for folders inside Nautilus, but for application launchers.
What I'm looking for is an equivalent to changing the icon for an ...
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How can I change the icon size on lubuntu's desktop?
I want to change the icons on the lubuntu desktop.
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How do have icons in a listview on Desktop
For Windows user's there is a tweak to make your desktop icons in a list view as you can see here:
http://www.howtogeek.com/?post_type=post&p=959
Icons normally on Desktop:
Icons in a ...
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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?
