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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Creating .desktop file syntax filename space
I was just learning how to make new launcher icons and I encountered a small annoyance with the spaces in filenames.
[Desktop Entry]
Version=x.y
Name=ProgramName
Comment=This is my comment
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Change Cinnamon Panel Icons
I recently installed Cinnamon and noticed that as I change the GTK, Cinnamon and icon themes, the panel icons remained the same. How can I change them to match my icon themes?
Note that the ...
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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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Two Ubuntu One cloud icons in the top bar [duplicate]
EDIT: I did some digging around and it turns out that the command provided before was incorrect. Here is the command you'll need to get rid of the OLD Ubuntu One icon:
sudo apt-get purge ...
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Why did I get two Ubuntu One cloud icons in the tray after the 13.04 upgrade?
I upgraded to 13.04, but now I have two Ubuntu One cloud icons in my tray. Can someone explain why and help me remove one of them?
See what I mean?
EDIT: The difference isn't so clear as "general ...
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How to restore basic icon sets (inherited by all the others) in Lubuntu 12.10?
I have searched and installed a lot of icon sets, but after a while I was surprised to see how big these packages were and decided to return to the basic set "Lubuntu Box". But I have tried to delete ...
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Show icon in alt-tab menu using .desktop file
After Googling for hours, I didn't find any answer for the following issue and so glad if anyone could help.
I use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with Gnome-shell 3.4.1. Consider the following simple program in ...
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Missing icons in Gnome-Shell overview
There are applications icons missing in my Gnome-Shell 3.8.2 overview, but this wasn't like that on a fresh install with Gnome3-PPA enabled. I do not have or had the Gnome3-Staging-PPA enabled.
I had ...
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Google Chrome Launcher Not Installed on Unity Bar
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 today. I expected the Google Chrome Browser to be part of the install. When I didn't see the icon I went to the Ubuntu software web page and downloaded and installed the ...
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icon assigned in .desktop file is NOT used when application is loaded and dsah icon appears
I am installing the newer application eclipse Juno on ubuntu 12.04 64bit, following this http://www.blogs.digitalworlds.net/softwarenotes/?p=54 .
I have already installed eclipse indigo in the past ...
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How to add drive/partition-icon to the launcher?
My dualboot-system (win7 / ubuntu 12.04) has a ntfs-formatted partition called "/share" for files I use both in win7 and ubuntu (e.g. pictures, music etc.).
I'd like to have a symbol of this drive in ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 stuck on the home screen and not able to display any wallpapers and have problem closing down the appplications
I upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10 then on the same day to 13.04. The up-gradation happened successfully from 12.04 to 12.10 but while from 12.10 to 13.04 everything happened fine until the system got ...
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Icons for Ubuntu Touch
After coming across Can I use the indicator icons from Ubuntu Touch on the desktop version?, I downloaded the icons (sudo apt-get install ubuntu-mobile-icons). I have a question regarding the contents ...
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My desktop icons have gone out of view
I have just two icons on my desktop The Home folder and my Kindle.
Until recently they worked well, However,today, when I turned on my computer, they had vanished. I checked the settings and it said ...
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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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Sound icon not working
I am using Ubuntu 13.04. last time i installed Pulse-audio-4.0 after which a weird problem started with my sound icon.In sound icon there are two hyphens following the speaker like <|--
i clicked ...
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I want to change only folder icons from humanity theme.How do i do it?
I love the new Files, app center and software update icons specially an thus want to remain on humanity icon set.
But i hate the folders!
i want to use the folders from the Faenza icon set. Which ...
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How to, auto add desktop icon for all new likewise-open users 12.04
I want to add a desktop icon to the desktop of every user that logges on.
The system is connected to Active Directory using LikeWise-open, i dont want to manualy add the desktop icons to every user, ...
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Unity launcher uses generic icon for Firefox in Ubuntu 12.04
After upgrading my distribution from 11.04 to 11.10 to 12.04 when starting a Firefox instance (from Alt+F2, not having a fixed launcher element) the icon displayed for it in the launcher and ...
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Unity, icon for applications run from folder
I recently switched to the snapshot versions of Minecraft. In the snapshot versions there is a launcher. From this launcher you choose a version of Minecraft to run. This then launches a .jar file ...
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Computer Desktop icon for 13.04
I know that ubuntu 13.04 doesn't have a "Computer" icon for Desktop anymore,isn't there a way to make a shortcut for it tough? Googled a few days back and I know I saw a tutorial somewhere but I ...
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Is there a specific folder for notification icons?
Is there a folder in /usr/share/icon which contains all the icons for the system tray? I'm not sure what size is used so I can't find it.
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Refresh desktop icons
I have used mount --bind to mirror my Windows desktop folder to Ubuntu. I have set it up to mount on boot but the desktop does not refresh the icons so I have to logout and log back in to make the ...
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How to remove the Ubuntu One icon from the top bar
Ever since I created a Ubuntu One account, the top bar has had the little Ubuntu One cloud icon in it. I prefer not to have very many icons in the top bar, and since Ubuntu One is easy to access, I ...
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Open an Application without an icon showing up in Unity (Ubuntu 12.4)
I'm trying to set it up such that after I open Pidgin, the application opens without showing an icon in the unity launcher.
Because Pidgin already has a way to open the window through the top-bar, I ...
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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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No desktop icons after uninstalling nemo
I tested nemo on Ubuntu 12.04. I mad it as default file manager.When I uninstalled it, desktop icons are disappeared and I can't do a right click on desktop to open menu.
How can I make Nautilus ...
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Why does space between apps and trash grown in Unity panel?
I have just installed Ubuntu 13.04 and love it, but I found a small thing that is making my OCD affect me.
When I add a new icon to the "side panel" it appears with the other icons are on the left ...
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What are the design guidelines for appindicator icons?
I am creating a Unity AppIndicator using Python + PyGObject, but I wish for it's icon to be in standard Ubuntu style. Where can I find appropriate guidelines for using colours (or is it just ...
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Icons left on top menu bar
I have an icon left on the top menu after an application froze and required "xkill" to unfreeze it. That part worked. The problem is the solution left the icons from the killed application on the top ...
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How to lock desktop icons on XFCE
I'm wondering if is there any way to have a functionality like in KDE: I can set icons to be "locked", so they will not change of location. But in XFCE when I start a game in 800*600 resolution and ...
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Change color of Applet context menu font or background
As seen here http://i.imgur.com/9tySBEi.png, theres little contrast between the greys.
I'm using the FlatStudio theme with Faenza Dark icons. I'm assuming it's because the icons are for a dark theme, ...
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changed icons have white squares [duplicate]
when I change icon in ubuntu 13.04 it has white box.
how can I remove it??
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What is special about the hicolor icon theme?
As far as I can recall, whenever I install software using apt-get, I see Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... (sixth line from top) appear in my terminal window when the installtion is just ...
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Custom VirtualBox Launcher in GNOME 3
I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 with GNOME 3. My goal is to create a custom launcher that will launch a specific VirtualBox virtual machine, and I'd like it to have it's own icon.
From a purely functional ...
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Why do some icon themes have so many different sizes?
[12:24 PM] /usr/share/icons/hicolor $ ls
128x128 192x192 24x24 32x32 48x48 64x64 96x96 index.theme
16x16 22x22 256x256 36x36 512x512 72x72 icon-theme.cache scalable
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What is the purpose of /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/mimetypes/?
Adding an Icon section in AddingMimeTypes has this:
Now we need to associate an icon with the MIME type. Get an SVG icon
and name it "text/extension .svg", or whatever your modified MIME type
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Peculiar icon specification in .desktop file
I have installed a Windows program (Evernote) on my Ubuntu 13.04 system using Wine. During installation a desktop shortcut was created containing (among others) this line:
Icon=63EC_Evernote.0
This ...
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Why do my Clementine Icons look like gnome default?
I am talking about the icons inside Clementine, not the indicator icons or unity launcher icons. I mean the ones almost on the bottom of the screen previous track, play, pause, next track.
After i ...
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Duplicate icons in GNOME Shell
A fellow user came across a problem, and it's the exact same one that I'm having. I'm just reposting here to see if there's a faster response (original Ubuntu Forums post):
So I have upgraded to ...
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I want desktop icons with text
I am running 12.04 and everything works really well. Except one thing: the icons on my desktop appear without text. They have correct icons, and when I click on an icon the correct file opens. I can ...
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no upper right icons with Ubuntu 12.10 and lightdm
I have a Ubuntu 12.10 server running in which I have installed lightdm. Now lightdm can boot and I can log in, but when I see the screen, I don't see ANY top right icon. So I cannot logout I cannot do ...
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How to refresh an icon that has been changed so the new one shows up?
I want to customize two icons in the top right indicator of the unity-panel, the one for everpad and the one for deluge.
I found this solution:
How do I merge two icon sets?
...and love it, it's ...
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Computer and home folder icon do not appear in cinnamon unless I boot into gnome classic first. (12.04 LTS)
New guy here :)
So, I have the respective checkboxes ticked for the home icon and the computer icon for them to supposedly appear in the desktop but no matter how many times I log in and out of ...
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White outline when selecting custom icon for folder on desktop?
I have selected a custom icon for a few folders on my desktop, and try as I may, I cannot get rid of the white outline around the said icons.
Is there a way to make the white outlines go away?
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How do I fix the icons after manually installing LibreOffice 4.0?
I removed the previous version of Libreoffice and installed the current Libreoffice 4.0 from http://www.libreoffice.org/download/. But now the icons and global-menubar are inactive: see screenshot.
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Icon themes not detected by KDE
I have been using KDE for a while. I installed a lot of themes on gnome but most of the themes don get detected here in kde ??? Why is that so ?? I like AwOken theme but it does not show up on KDE but ...
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how to get button icons on ubuntu 13.04?
I have enabled the check mark for buttons-have-icons and menus-have-icons in gconf-editor as in this post. These icons were visible in Ubuntu 12.04, but not in 13.04. What can I do to get back those? ...
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Icon theme doesn't affect some Qt-applications [duplicate]
I changed the icon theme in Ubuntu 12.04, but it doesn't affect Qt-applications. They have the default theme.
For KDE applications the icon theme can be changed with the systemsettings package. This, ...
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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 ...
