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How to find what icon file nautilus is choosing to display?
In my case, I copied the icon (a .png file; but a .svg file will be better) into the directory /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/scalable/mimetypes/, where Adwaita is my current icon scheme, and ran:
$ sudo ...
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Favorites bar: orange dot for running Firefox missing
Not really an answer, but there's a bug 1972545 here and a collection of other bugs on a similar effect.
One suggestion is that it may be that these are snaps: the snap has updated behind the scenes ...
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How do I remove icons from desktop?
To make sure your desktop shows files stored in the ~/Desktop folder again, you will need to correct your ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file. Make sure XDG_DESKTOP_DIR points to your ~/Desktop folder, so ...
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How to display network manager icon on the Xfce panel?
Thanks for the tip with network-manager-gnome. Strangely, the xfce4-netload plugin no longer displayed anything, so WLAN could no longer be used.
As described, the applet installed. Reboot. Works.
MX ...
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I would like to center the icons while keeping the panel background extended?
A way to achieve this with dash-to-panel v56, on gnome 43.6:
go to the dash-to-panel extension settings
on the "Position" tab, scroll down to the position and visibility table
make sure ...
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23.10 Folder "Properties" icons look like colorful static after installing oibaf/graphics-drivers
The issues I had were with the drivers from the oibaf PPA. Here's how I fixed it:
Revert to stable drivers
Using the command suggested by the PPA maintainer sudo ppa-purge ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers ...
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Command line behind a partition mounting icon and how to modify default mount options?
Where can I find an actual command line text, which is executed during
this operation?
What you want should look like this:
udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdxy
Can I modify/adjust this line for my needs?
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Weird icon in system status area
In this case, it turns out the culprit was...me, a few days ago. I was trying to get screen sharing to work and one answer somewhere suggested turning on unsafe mode. It's not clear that's what the ...
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Icons disappearing/reappearing, causing input lag
I seem to have fixed this on my own. I had a faulty USB extension cord plugged in to my PC which was also plugged into a game controller. I've had problems with this USB cord in the past, which I ...
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How to replace app icon in top bar of ubuntu 22.04
The app menu icon has a style_class app-menu-icon.
And the default/majority of themes have below styling for it.
#panel .panel-button .app-menu-icon {
-st-icon-style: symbolic; }
This way the icon ...
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What is the meaning for a system icon color?
The microphone is normally white.
The fact that it is orange means that an application is actively using the microphone. Typically things like having Zoom or Skype running would give you an orange ...
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Dual Libreoffice Writer Icons
The reason why you have two icons for LibreOffice is that one is installed through the traditional APT system, the other through SNAP.
From the version you report, it is the SNAP install (version 7.5....
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How can I add social icons in LibreOffice document?
It is possible to insert icons as special characters by installing the relevant font. e.g. Font Awesome:
sudo apt install fonts-font-awesome
Be aware this has portability issues since it will require ...
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How can I add social icons in LibreOffice document?
The only real way to get icons like this into your document is to find and obtain the icons online somewhere, resize them, and embed them, such as in PNG or such formats.
There's no icon set that ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 firefox desktop icon
I had the same problem with snap version of Firefox in Lubuntu. Removing and reinstalling firefox didn't fix the desktop icon for some reason, even after rebooting. I couldn't find the firefox.desktop ...
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Where does KDE Plasma store the user-specified arrangement of desktop icons?
It's the file
~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc
Inside [Containments][NUMBER][General]
In positions= with the grid order of each icon, 0, 0 being top left.
Credit goes to skjerns.
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How can I set a custom icon for firefox running through firejail? (not only for the launcher but also for the running app itself)
In Ubuntu 22.04 running Wayland, you have to change the .desktop file as above. Use --name instead of --class= in the Exec line.
Version=1.1
Type=Application
Name=Firefox Arbeit
Comment=Web Browser ...
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Icon of Gnome Pomodoro does not show up. How do I fix it?
This is what worked in the end:
sudo apt install gnome-shell-pomodoro
Tweaks → Extenstions → Pomodoro → activate.
Answer moved here from OP's comment.
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Icons missing/changed when switching back to the default desktop environment from KDE Plasma on Ubuntu 20.10
You can install and run gnome-tweaks. It permits to change back icons themes under appearance menu.
sudo apt install gnome-tweaks
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Kolourpaint missing all icons on Ubuntu 20.10
install qt5ct:
sudo apt install qt5ct
Open it:
qt5ct
Navigate to Icon Theme, select any icon pack and click "Apply":
Reopen kolourpaint, the icons should appear now:
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Kolourpaint missing all icons on Ubuntu 20.10
Not sure for Ubuntu with GNOME Desktop, but similar problem can be fixed with Kolourpaint in Kubuntu 22.04 by installing every icon theme available (just to be on a safe side) and by running it with ...
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