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 do I get and install more themes, icons, and pointers?
I've downloaded some nice themes, icon packages, and pointers from sites like gnome-look. Now what do I do? Where else can I get these kinds of things?
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Where can I get themes and eye-candy for my desktop?
Apart from those themes in the repository and Gnome-look.org, are there other places to get themes for my Ubuntu Desktop?
Also, are there any 3rd party repositories of themes and other eye-candy?
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Is it possible to change the order of icons in the indicator applet?
Is it possible to change the order of icons shown in the indicator applet? With Tomboy indicator, Weather indicator, Clipboard-manager indicator, Ubuntu One and Dropbox indicators and a Battery Status ...
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Change Icon of Wine Application in Unity Launcher
I frequently run a windows program with wine. When I open this program it shows up in the unity launcher as wine instead of the actual opened program.
I have made a desktop launcher with the right ...
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How can I remove the Skype panel icon in Ubuntu 12.04 (and earlier)?
As I use the Docky Skype indicator, and the green Skype icon doesn't look good next to all the grey ones -- it would be nice to remove the icon from the system tray.
Is this possible? How can I do ...
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How do I remove an icon from the top panel in GNOME Fallback mode?
When I right click the Filezilla icon, the only options are "launch" and "properties". How do I remove it from the top panel?
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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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Why are there two icons in the Unity launcher for Nautilus?
Okay, so I installed Ubuntu 11.10.
The thing is, when I click the home folder icon in the launcher (Win + 1), the home folder opens and a new icon appears in the launcher.
I want the windows to be ...
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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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Apply icons to bash scripts
I created a script for XChat according to this answer, and I was wondering if there is anyway to apply XChat icon to it.
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Where are icons stored?
I want to change an icon of a specific theme. Where do themes save their icons?
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How do I change the icon for a particular file type?
I'm trying to change the icon for application/x-hwp files. I've added the icons to the proper places, and checked it with assoGiate (after reading this thread). It shows that my desired icon is ...
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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 change which icon an applet uses?
I just installed the clipboard manager Diodon.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:diodon-team/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install diodon
By default, it uses a dark gtk-paste icon when I use ...
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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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How can I assign custom icons to folders?
How do I assign custom icons to folders, as well as the default folders Desktop, Downloads, Music, etc.? I know that one way is to assign the properties of folders, but I want to assign icons in the ...
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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 do I shrink the Unity launcher icons to make them smaller? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I resize the Unity launcher?
I would like to make the icons in the launcher smaller, so that more of them can be displayed in that precious vertical space.
How ...
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Unity sidebar gone black [closed]
Recently, I've upgraded to 11.04 beta 2. All looking fine, until, after installing some usual distribution updates, unity's sidebar doesn't show any application icons, only a black panel. Hovering and ...
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How can I change the icon of an application in the Unity launcher?
I'm trying to change the icon of a specific application (Pidgin) in my Ubuntu 11.10 Unity launcher. I have tried searching in the options and in the Compiz settings but could locate no option for ...
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How to create a desktop shortcut in Unity?
Is there an easy way to create a desktop shortcut for an application in Unity? The ability to right click or drag and drop icons to the desktop in Unity does not seem to be there.
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How to set an icon for Eclipse?
I want to set icon for Launcher. it has file named icon.xpm, but its being ignored by the icon set wizard. I tried to change it to .ico file, but it is still getting ignore.
any ideas?
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How do I merge two icon sets?
I want to merge the standard Ubuntu Mono icon set and the Faenza icon set. I would like to keep the standard Ubuntu icons in the panel (including icons for the likes of Dropbox, file transfers etc.) ...
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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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No Banshee notification area icon in Gnome 3 classic session
After installing Ubuntu 12.04, I have a problem with Banshee: it doesn't have a tray icon. I know about the tray-icon-plugin, but it's not working:
I'm using Gnome 3 in classic mode. In gnome-shell ...
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Why do some open applications appear as “question marks” in the Unity launcher?
I'm having a problem with a couple of programs that have launchers in unity but then create a separate icon after launched. Is is possible for the launcher to track the windows it spawns to organize ...
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How can I change Dropbox's indicator applet icon?
After installing Dropbox I was happy to see that although the installer said it would be version 0.6.7, it actually installed Dropbox 1.1.0.
This version includes the new application indicator. ...
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How to hide all desktop icons in 12.04?
In 11.10 Using Configuration editor, one used to be able to edit a boolean parameter named : Desktop_Show
This allowed to hide/show all desktop icons.
This latter was removed in 12.04.
Someone, ...
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How do I only use the icons for applications in the Faenza icon set?
I downloaded the Faenza icon set and installed the "Dark" variant on my desktop.
However I only want the icons for applications (the ones that go in the Unity Launcher), I want all the other icons to ...
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2answers
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Battery icon changed?
I don't know what happened, but today when I logged in to Ubuntu 12.04, the battery icon looked strange (when unplugged):
When it's plugged, the icon looks as always been, the problem is when it's ...
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Faenza / Ubuntu Mono power icon problems
Im having problems applying a new icon theme in ubuntu 11.10 specifically with the power icon. Ive installed faenza succesfully, and the gnome tweak tool to change the icons, but the power icon doesnt ...
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How can I change another user's “About Me” photo?
Is there a way for a user with administrative privileges to change another user's "About Me" photo?
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How do I remove icons for other drives on the unity bar?
My HDD is split into multiple partitions. They each have an icon on the Unity bar. Is there a way to remove them from the bar?
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Can I change the icon size in dash? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to change icons size inside unity (e.g. on all programs panel)
Has anyone found a way to resize the icons in the dash in Natty or Oneiric?
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Where can I find Icon sets for Unity?
I really dislike the default monochrome icons in Unity's global menu and in Thunderbird, but I haven't been able to find a source for alternative icons. Any tips?
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How do I get the names in my icon theme for use with pythons appindicator module?
How do I get the strings I can insert instead of 'gtk-execute'?
#!/usr/bin/python
import gobject
import gtk
import appindicator
if __name__ == "__main__":
ind = ...
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Chrome icon not appearing in Launcher
I've been using Chromium for some time now, but I decided to switch over to Chrome. More features.
Anyways, I found that when I launch Chrome, its icon doesn't appear in the Launcher.
Do any of you ...
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How to change the icons of multiple files from terminal?
I would like to change the icons of multiple files from terminal.
Not launcher icons, but the default icons for filetypes, based on the file endings.
How to acheive this task?
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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 can I install different icons? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I get and install more themes, icons, and pointers?
I often find myself seeing new icons but I am unable to install them.
How do you install icons on Ubuntu? ...
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0answers
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How do I change fonts & icons in a theme? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I change fonts?
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10. I was slightly annoyed to find no easy way to change the icons and fonts on the appearances window. Apparently, you have ...
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How to change icons size inside unity (e.g. on all programs panel)
How to change icons size inside unity (e.g. on all programs panel).
I can change launcher icons size but I don't know how to do this "inside" Unity.
I made a screenshot with big icons which I'd like ...
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Desktop icons disappear when using wallpaper plugin
When I enable wallpaper compiz plugin all icons disappear from desktop. How can I fix that?
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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 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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2answers
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Not able to see icons on my desktop
I am not able to see icons on my desktop even when I have minimized all my windows. Also I am unable to right-click on my desktop. I have installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my Vaio Laptop. I am using Unity 3D.
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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 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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How to create & pin Unity shortcut to a specific command / shellscript
This is not a duplicate as I've spent a good while trying to find a solution from Ask Ubuntu and Googling, to no avail. It is a specific problem after successfully pinning the shortcut to Unity.
The ...
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How can I change the icon for Jupiter?
I installed Jupiter to try to improve my laptop's performance, and it's doing rather well :D
However, I use the Radiance theme (white windows, white topbar, black indicator applets etc.) and Jupiter ...
