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As the title says, I want to change the "Show Applications" Icon in Ubuntu dock (on Ubuntu 17.10) with Ubuntu icon like in Unity 10.04.

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"Show Applications" icon is usually the view-app-grid-symbolic.svg file under your icon theme directory. So you can change the "Show Applications" icon by overriding that file.

For example, in case of Adwaita icon theme, the view-app-grid-symbolic.svg file is located at /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/scalable/actions/. To change it with a custom icon of your choice (say my-icon.svg), just copy my-icon.svg to the aforementioned directory and rename it as view-app-grid-symbolic.svg. You may run the following command to do that

sudo cp /path/to/my-icon.svg /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/scalable/actions/view-app-grid-symbolic.svg

Note a couple of things:

  1. Be very careful while making changes inside the root directory. It's always better to take a backup of the file before replacing it. In case anything goes wrong you'll be able to revert the change.
  2. The change you'll make most probably be overwritten once an associated package gets updated. So you'll have to make the change again.

For other icon themes the correct location of the view-app-grid-symbolic.svg file may be /usr/share/icons/ICON_THEME_DIRECTORY/actions/symbolic or /usr/share/icons/ICON_THEME_DIRECTORY/symbolic/actions. Or if the icon theme directory is located inside your home directory, try ~/.icons/ICON_THEME_DIRECTORY/... or ~/.local/share/icons/ICON_THEME_DIRECTORY/... etc.

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  • thanks, but i dont have svg icon, can i rename a png file to svg and use it, or where can i find svg icons?
    – Cloud Sky
    Jan 19, 2018 at 7:41
  • @CloudSky You can rename and use. Also log out and log in again after making the change.
    – pomsky
    Jan 19, 2018 at 7:45
  • @CloudSky Note that symbolic .svg images behave substantially different from .png. While the first one adapts to the current theme color, the second does not. Also note that replacing the file might effect other applications or places where the icon is used.
    – Jacob Vlijm
    Jan 19, 2018 at 12:51

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