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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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2answers
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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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2answers
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Replace Docky's Icon by Ubuntu Icon
How can I replace Docky's standard anchor icon in the dock by Ubuntu's? It would look quite nice I think. This is how it looks right now:
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3answers
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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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2answers
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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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215 views
Can I set a default “About Me” photo?
Is there a way to set a default "About Me" photo so that all users created in the future start off with the same user image on the login screen?
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How can I remove the gray boxes around custom folder icons? [closed]
When I set custom folder icons in Ubuntu 13.04, gray boxes appear around them:
How can I make the icons just look normal?
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2answers
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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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4answers
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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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3answers
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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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0answers
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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 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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Why do the GNOME symbolic icons appear darker in a running application?
I'm creating an application that uses symbolic icons from the default theme.
However, there are a few icons that I need that cannot be represented by those from the default theme, so I'm creating my ...
9
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4answers
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Why is the icon for the 'copy dialog' indicator a mouse pointer?
When copying or moving a large file I have noticed the icon for the copy dialog indicator is a mouse pointer.
Is this suppose to be, or is it a bug?
This is really confusing.
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1answer
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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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2answers
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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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1answer
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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.
8
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2answers
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Why is there no clear day weather icon in the ubuntu mono icons set?
All the other weather icons seem to be present, but when the weather is clear or sunny, the icon reverts to an ugly yellow sun instead of the lovely mono icons. Why is this icon missing?
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What happened to my menu Icons?
I have been using Natty for a month now and everything is running smoothly there is only one or two problems I have come across (on my Machine). This problem is as far as I can tell in relation to the ...
8
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1answer
969 views
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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3answers
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Install Faenza icons on libreoffice 3.5 toolbar
According to a WEB UPD8 post from july 2011, it is possible to install Faenza-styled icons on LibreOffice toolbar.
I can't install Faenza the traditional way on LO 3.5 (i.e., changing the toolbar ...
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1answer
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In what directory(s) are the default ubuntu icons located?
I accidentally deleted the Downloads bookmark, and I wanted to recreate it with the same icon, but I can't find it.
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7answers
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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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2answers
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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 do I set the default icon set and wallpaper for new users?
I would like to change the default icon set and wallpaper so when a new user is created they have them automatically.
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6answers
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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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votes
1answer
993 views
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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votes
1answer
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Is there some kind of icon browser?
When making a custom launcher, it is nice to have a matching icon for it from the default usr ubuntu directories. The problem that is: Ubuntu seems to store icons in about 50 or more folders. Browsing ...
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1answer
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How do I make GVim use the icon in my icon theme?
Instead of my pretty Faenza icon, it's using a rather ugly one.
7
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1answer
534 views
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, ...
7
votes
1answer
321 views
Is this a Unity Dash bug or Aptana Studio 3 bug? Icon in Dash being displayed really large.
I have installed Aptana studio 3 and you can see the icon in Unity Dash is being displayed, very large.
Is it a Unity Dash bug or just Aptana Studio 3 bug ?
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1answer
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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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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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3answers
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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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2answers
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Missing Icons in 11.10 upgrade
After upgrading to 11.10 from 11.04 (I think), some of the icons such as the folder icons in Nautalus are replaced with the generic file icon... This makes it hard to navigate.
Is there any easy way ...
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1answer
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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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votes
4answers
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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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2answers
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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.
6
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2answers
556 views
Show Icon instead of text for the gnome menus?
Is it possible to use icons instead of text for the menus in the top pannel (shown above)?
If so, How can we do that?
I've tryed gconf-editor setting the Key:
/desktop/interface/toolbar_style
with ...
6
votes
3answers
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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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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 ...
