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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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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After minor upgrade desktop text has ugly square corners [closed]
After a minor upgrade my desktop icons ended up looking like this:
Any idea how to get it to look pretty again?
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Icons don't display for some application launchers
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop for some time now. Since the first day only I have been facing the problem with icon images of some application not appearing up. It causes a lot of ...
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How can I get color panel icons in Lubuntu 12.04?
How do I get all color panel icons in Lubuntu 12.04? I have tried changing the "look and feel" and the openbox settings, but there doesn't seem to be any way to get all color panel icons.
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How exactly does Unity handle desktop files? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where are the Unity Launcher .desktop files?
I searched for a .desktop file for supermeatboy since it wasn't in /usr/share/applications/ .
So I used the Terminal:
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Custom folder icon in lubuntu's PCman File Manager
i just want to ask, if anyone knows how to change icons of programs, folder etc. in PCman FileManager, Nautilus or Dolphin can do this, but PCman not. Thanks for reply
PS: i want to change it ...
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Not all the icons have changed after installing a new icon theme in Lubuntu
I have installed an icon theme in Lubuntu. Icons have changed but not every icon. Folder icons are the same but there are many more icons for music folder, video folder etc. Opera has new icon, but ...
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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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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 to change DigiKam icon
I installed digikam. It is great program but I do not like the icon :). Can anybody help me how can it be changed or replaced or whatever for the nicer icon?
Thank you all in advance.
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I screwed up my icons with MyUnity
I wanted MyUnity specifically for the ability to have more than 4 virtual desktops, that is really all that I absolutely needed it for. However, then I got to playing with it wanting to customize my ...
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How to see all icons in dash home?
When clicked on Dash home, it shows only recent icons
I want to see all the installed application Icons when clicked on Dash home....
And can I increase the size of the Dash home window? Because it ...
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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 can I change the Cryptkeeper tray icon?
I have cryptkeeper on 12.04 working but I don't like the icon. I want to change it to a monochrome icon but I cannot find the icon location anywhere?
I looked in the /pixmaps folder and the /icon ...
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Icons missing in applications
I recently deleted some icon themes, as a result the applications do not display the icons properly. The applications are running but some buttons do not display some icons and some icons are ...
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Why does my volume indicator look like this? (a big black square)
I recently installed Oneiric Ocelot on my computer.
The first thing I did was remove Unity and installed gnome-core in its place. I don't know if this occurred before switching, but when I modify the ...
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cannot open ubuntu software center
I deleted some unnecessary icon themes and now my application icons are changed. I cannot open Ubuntu software center also.... the following message is displayed....
success@user-pc:~$ ...
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Strange behaviour of Launcher icon positions
It's a hardly any trouble but I still want to ask in case anyone knows.
I like to keep my Launcher clean with just two or three most common applications pinned. The strange behaviour is that new ...
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Where can I find a scanner icon?
I just installed VueScan and I need the path to a scanner icon that I can add to my .desktop file, so that there isn't a blank square in my Launcher panel. I have been unable to find anything in ...
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Cairo Dock: White outline on selected icons?
I installed Cairo Dock and it's working fine, but I'm seeing a white outline on selected icons. I've searched, but cannot find the file (s) associated with this outline. Any ideas?
Thanks!
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How to change goldendict system tray icon?
I'm trying to change goldendict system tray icon, and can't find one in system files. I managed however to change launcher icon: it's located in /usr/share/pixmaps/Dictionary-icon.png, but system tray ...
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Missing icons after upgrade to latest version 6 Sept 2012
Based on similar complaints, I tried
sudo apt-get --reinstall install gnome-icon-theme-full
And that had no effect and reported that some directories did not exist.
On rebooting to to see if that ...
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How do I change the software center icon in the launcher?
I'm not a big fan of the Software Center icon (apparently I'm not the only one: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/09/software-centre-icon-proposal).
Is there a way change it?
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