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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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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Bookmark icons in Nautilus
I know that when you are making a bookmark in nautilus the icon of the bookmark is the same as the folders icon but the problem is when i restart my pc the bookmark icon remains default until clicking ...
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different icons on different workspaces
When I install an icon on one workspace it is installed on all four workspaces. Is it possible to install different icons on different workspaces? I am using Ubuntu 12.04.
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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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Notification Icon Area Not Showing All Icons
The first wierd thing i should note is that when i start up the computer, it says connecting to wifi in a notification box on the login screen. Which is normal for me but ever since this glitch ...
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How do I get high resolution icons in Unity for my application without a .desktop file?
I am trying to fix a problem I found with a Java application. It has a too low res icon. After reading the source of it I modified it to have a bigger icon. SWT uses the gtk_window_set_icon() function ...
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Battery icon constantly empty when discharging Vaio VGN-FZ210CE
I have a Sony Vaio VGN-210CE laptop, and its battery does not report the drain rate properly. In 11.10 and earlier, the battery icon would update with the percentage, not the estimated time. In 12.04 ...
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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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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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Remove Unity Icon when 'Unlock from Launcher' does not appear
I recently installed the LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 meta package via the Ubuntu Software Center. This does not contain LibreOffice Base, so I installed it separately via the Ubuntu Software Center as well.
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How can I get bigger Ubuntu logo at the top menu in 11.04
I have made my panel bigger and all the icons also get bigger except one, the logo on the left of the main menu that says "Applications Places System". Is there a way to make that logo/icon the same ...
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How to fix wine apps that have a white background in unity tray
Many Wine apps and also some Java apps like Evernote or JDownloader appears in Unity tray with an annoying white background.
Is there a way to solve this issue?
Here is a screenshot about it:
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Unable to set my own icon for launcher item in 12.04
I use the Faenza icon collection in Ubuntu 12.04 Unity with no issues. I decided to change my Gimp launcher icon, so I made my own (gimp-ak.png) and added it, and its appropriately sized derivatives, ...
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Why do my Gnome Shell icons on the bar replicate and how can I stop it?
Why do my Gnome Shell icons on the right hand side of the top bar replicate themselves and what can I do to stop it?
On first start up there is the normal single set of icons but after hibernating ...
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gnome-panel icons spacing
I'm using Gnome Classic with no effects because Compiz is slow on my notebook. Everything is fine except panel icons - they are too wide. They look OK with Compiz. How can I make them look the same in ...
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Howto Change notification icons in gnome 3 fallback panel?
I like to change the notification icons on the bottom panel,because the panel is nearly the same as the panels backround gradient...
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Remove status option from gray post icon on top bar
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, and set configuration system.
On top bar is a gray post icon, and I can add for her other application: Gmail Notifer, Fbuntu ect. But I have one problem and I can't ...
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Replace text with icon on desktop?
When on my desktop, Id like to have the Ubuntu icon in the title bar instead of the default "Ubuntu Desktop". Is there any way to do this? Im running 12.10, on an AAO
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How can you change Icon size in Dash 12.10
I have some icons bigger than others in the Dash, and I want to be able to re-size them. Is it possible to resize the icon size in the Dash (I know how to do this in the launcher) in 12.10?
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Are USC applications allowed to install .desktop files?
Ubuntu's official site for developers says:
Technical requirements:
In order for your application to be distributed in the Software Centre it must:
Be in one, self-contained directory when ...
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Rearrange icons in unity Ubuntu 12.04
Can someone help me in rearranging the icons in my Ubuntu 12.04 unity launcher. The left click hold and move is not working for me. Is there a better and clean way which would also survive a reboot?
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Ubuntu 12.10 new Launcher Icons don't launch
In the last week I upgrade Skype and installed MATLAB and neither of their launcher icons seem to work. They will flash as if they are trying to load the program but after a few seconds go back to ...
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Why are there multiple copies of the same application in the Unity launcher?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10, and some applications have two launcher icons in the Unity launcher. There is one smaller, pixelated icon, and one regular one. It only happens with some apps though, but not ...
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left-click on launcher icon does not start the application
After upgrading from Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid lynx) to Ubuntu 12.04 (precise pangolin) almost everything works fine, except launcher.
For most icons, left-click on the icon in the launcher does not ...
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Does the use of custom themes and icon sets increases the use of system resources in Ubuntu/Lubuntu?
It is clear that visual effects take their load on system resources (and while choosing Lubuntu/LXDE to stay light, the use of effects like compositing and so on doesn't make sense).
But what about ...
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apps not using their installed icons depending on directory
On Precise, apps use their icons in menus if the "app.desktop" file is in
/usr/share/applications and the icon is in /usr/share/icons.
If the app.desktop file is in /usr/share/kde4/apps/ and the ...
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Creating Icon Themes Gnome 3
I want to keep all the icons included in the gnome 3 icon theme "Ubuntu mono-dark" except the icons which appear when I alter the brightness or sound using fn keys. I haven't found any tutorial about ...
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How to enlarge icons in browse menu?
How can i enlarge icon in browse menu? When i want to upload some pictures to sites, and when a window opens for finding and selection images, icons are to small, i need to enlarge them so i can see ...
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How to increase icon size of xfce4-panel window buttons (panel-tasklist-menu)
After searching for a solution for a few days, I believe that this could be a bug. After increasing the height of the xfce-panel I noticed, that the icons of the window buttons remained small. Because ...
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Change the icon for one specific file (from the command line)
In Ubuntu, is it possible to change the icon for a specific file from the command line? I want to create a shortcut with a custom icon, so I'll need a way to change a specific file's icon. (Instead of ...
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Size of icons on Ubuntu 12.04 with GNOME 3
I have never had any difficulties changing size of icons. Now the main trouble is that change of -shell-grid-item-size does not take effect. I was sure that -shell-grid-item-size defined the size of ...
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How to let ubuntu know I have installed a third party application?
I installed Eclipse in Ubuntu, but not from Ubuntu Software Center.
I just downloaded the package from eclipse.org and extracted it to /opt/ and created a symbolic link in /usr/bin and a .desktop ...
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Unable to show correctly symbolic icons with appindicator
I'm creating an app under Ubuntu 12.04 and using libappindicator and Vala. I want to use a symbolic icon, to ensure that the colors are adapted to the background in the status bar. Unfortunately, I'm ...
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Is there a way to have translucent desktop icon label backgrounds in Unity?
This is my first post here, and I'm still new to Unity. I did a quick search and took a brief look at the suggested questions while posting this, and I can't seem to find an answer.
I've been using ...
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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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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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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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How to view apk icons in Nautilus?
I want to view .apk (android apps) on Nautilus. There's already a solution for Windows e.g. apkshellext but it's not supported for Linux or Ubuntu. So, how can I view apk icon in thumbnail on Ubuntu?
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How do I restore icons in my dock that have mysteriously changed to question marks?
So I downloaded/installed Beneath a Steel Sky and Freedroid RPG from the Ubuntu Software Center. Upon restarting the computer, the icons for them have changed to question marks and I don't know why. ...
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Can we make custom folder icons show up in the dash?
Currently when you customize a folder's icon via its Properties from within nautilus, it looks great in nautilus - but when you try and jump to that folder via the Dash, it always displays that plain ...
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Expo View by Launcher Icon Click
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 32bit, and something changed recently (maybe after installing official MyUnity). I am no longer able to bring up the "expo mode" for the windows of a given application when ...
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some icons missing in dash, folder after update of 11.10
After updating ubuntu 11.10 I find that some of the icons on the dash Unity bar have gone transparent and also some icons are missing in the home folder and elsewhere. Also the shutdown/restart icon ...
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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 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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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 kicking my OCD in the balls.
When I add a new icon to the "side panel" it appears with the other icons are on the ...
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How do I get the unity “file” shortcut to go to existing windows instead of opening new ones
The unity "files" icon when initially clicked will open to the home folder, if you navigate to another mounted device and click the files icon it will open another window to the home folder instead of ...
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Set XFCE Running Task Icons
I am running Ubuntu 12.10 with XFCE (not Xubuntu) and I can't figure out how to set the icons that are used in the task bar / task switcher. In the application menu, GVim has an icon, but in my task ...
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Is there any way to do not combine icons on taskbar in Uniti?
I would like to make this windows to display with two icons without merging it. I was searching for compiz settings and google and nothing was found.
