Questions tagged [icons]
This is for any question about the images that represent applications. These images show up in Slingshot and Plank. Questions can be about duplicates, icon packs, low quality icons and more.
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One of my apps has a second, fuzzy icon in Plank. How can I workaround this?
I have a Google Chrome icon in Plank. After an update to Google Chrome, a second fuzzy icon appears every time the browser is opened:
How can I fix this?
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How can I change the Skype icon in the wingpanel to match the default style?
It'd be nicer if the Skype icon was smaller and white. Here's how it looks right now:
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Is there a way to install custom folder icons?
I have several folders in my home folder that are just plain blue icons, which I feel are a little out of place.
Is there an icon theme or tweak I can use to improve the look of my home folder a ...
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Certain application icons does not show up in dock when opened
When I open qBittorrent or calibre they show for a moment in the dock and then go away. I am using qBittorrent v3.3.1 which is in the official repository and calibre v2.70 which I downloaded from ...
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Dropbox icon missing in Loki
I got a red circle with a crossed red line instead of Dropbox icon.
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How can I fix this strange icon in wingpanel?
The top left icon.
No idea what can it be. I havent installed anything new, just when i started my computer it was there. Any ideas?
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How can I change the icon of an application in the elementary OS
I am using elementary OS freya.
How can I change icon of a specific application in elementary OS.
Is it possible ?
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How can I replace a single App Icon
How can I replace a single Icon (In my case Inkscape and terminator) without interfering with my current Icon theme.
Since I use the elementary+ Icon theme it has an orange Inkscape Icon and I don't ...
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List installed icon sets and themes
How can I see a list with the names of the different icon sets and themes I've installed in elementary OS?
I can see them listed if I use elementary-tweaks, but that app is not maintained anymore and ...
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How to combine the icons of different icon sets into a new one? [duplicate]
I would like combine two icon sets into one new icon set. Meaning I want the wingpanel icons (sound,battery,wifi,etc) and the application toolbar icons (geary,scratch,etc) from the default elementary ...
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How can I change the icon for a specific file type?
I have Guitar Pro installed on my system (no easy task, but that's another matter for another time), and have a ton of .gpx, .gp5, and .gp4 files that I use with the application.
The file icons ...
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Change specified app's icon
How can I change the icon for an specified app? I have installed Dota 2 but it shows Steam icon instead of Dota 2 icon, the right Doat 2 icons is shown when the game is running but not in plank. How ...
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Two Icons showing in Dock for Minecraft using Custom .desktop file
I've created a Minecraft desktop entry, which works fine, but when I launch Minecraft it creates a new icon in my dock. I know that this isn't really an issue but I switched to elementary OS because ...
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Is there any way to lock the dock?
You can drag the icons on the dock and put them in and out, but is there any way of locking them so you can't do this?
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How to solve broken Google Chrome icon?
Hi, can anyone guide me on how to solve this broken google chrome icon please?
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How to fix Netbeans 8.1 double icons on plank [duplicate]
I downloaded and installed Neatbeans 8.1 from the official site. Even if I tick Keep in Dock for the Netbeans icon, a new icon is generated every time I click on it. This new icon doesn't have the ...
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Add icon to show desktop
I need the icon to minimize windows and show desktop. I can't find a decent guide. Can you help me?
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Large icons, windows, fonts, etc
I have a computer connected to an LCD TV with a Radeon 6770HD
During installation everything was fine, but when I boot everything is very large.
Installing the drivers from the AMD website didn't ...
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Notifications are being identified as the wrong application [closed]
This has happened with a few applications but for example, I have have Slack installed but when I get a notification, it shows up as being from RubyMine.
I'm curious why these aren't being properly ...
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Missing icons in Applications and System Settings in Loki
I have a problem with missing icons - I first noticed they disappeared after one of the recent upgrades to Loki.
I have Calendar, Camera, KsystemLog, Screenshot, Videos, Photos and Mail icons missing ...
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Google Chrome no longer has an icon [closed]
I've always been able to fix any issues I've had with Google Chrome's icon by setting a StartupWMClass as described here, however as of today the icon broke completely, and StartupWMClass didn't solve ...
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Why is there a low-res icon on the dock when Spotify is running?
I installed Spotify client using the method from their official site. When I run it, however, a low-res icon pop out on the dock and is used to maximise/minimise the app instead of the original hi-res ...
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Elementary OS 7 (Horus) compatibility with Ubuntu / Unity indicators on Pantheon's Wingpanel (top right menubar)?
How can we display the "old" (and frequently still needed / required) system tray / indicator icons for apps like TeamViewer and so forth?
Without this, TeamViewer complains about it not ...
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How to change Desktop icon font color?
I have desktop enabled but the font color is black. How can I change the icon font color to white?
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Geary: mail - Broken Theme and icons
After I have installed Geary mail client from the Flathub repository, the icons are bad rendered, with vertical separators bethween. Any solution ? The version is 3.38 I think.
Best regards.
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Icon for File app no longer showing
No more than two/three days ago, the icon for the File app (file manager) is no longer shown, and the icon with the wheen is shown.
Can I recover the correct icon, someway?
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Lost Pictures Folder Icon
I have involuntary renamed Pictures Folder. I have lost the custom icon on it. Is it possible to recover the Pictures icon once the folder is renamed again to Pictures?
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How to replace just close minimize window icons?
I don't like those gray minimize maximize buttons (icons). How can I replace just them. I do not want to install a new theme just the buttons in standart elementary theme.
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How can I get menus with icons in Loki?
I try to set icons for programs and context menus by dconf under org>gnome>desktop>interface>menus-have-icons but didn't work, help!
Expected results:
(in Freya I think I got this using Ubuntu-Tweak)...
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App Center missing icons on Loki [closed]
I recently installed Elementary OS 0.4, after doing some regular installations and updates, the App Center (0.1.3) icons are missing, they have a gray gear instead. How can I fix this?
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How to fix broken/wrong wingpanel icon
I installed Hipchat on my ElementaryOS system. I am on 0.3 Freya.
In the status bar is this icon:
Can I fix this myself or do I have to write the developer of hipchat?
I would be okay if the icon ...
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Network icon missing in Freya wingpanel
I have tried everything in this thread and I have asked on Reddit but I am unable to get the network icon back. Please help.
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The use of a custom icon
As it is for now there's no easy way to change a folder's icon with a custom one. Exampel I want to change my Steam folder which indicate it's Steam in that directory.
I have tried with gio command ...
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Plank does not emerge icons
My issue is identical to this one, and it did solve my issue when I changed the logo from .png to .ico in .desktop. However, a restart/log-out session would render the solution void. As you can see ...
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Some of the icons are gone Control Panel [closed]
After some updates, some icons of my control panel (including volume) are gone, I've had this problem with Ubuntu, and managed to solve at the time, but as Elementary environment is different, the ...
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My panel icons get more than 3 minutes to load [duplicate]
I'm using Fyeya 0.3.2 (I guess this is the most up to date version)
However recently I'm facing a issue with the panel icons. Including network client. Panel icons get more than 3 minutes to load. I ...
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Display Desktop Icons
So I've tried the normal tricks, and everywhere I've looked I can't find how to enable "desktop icons" in 'JUNO', disabling and re-enabling it in tweaks has done nothing.
Any advice would be ...
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ElementaryOS Juno after Eclipse IDE install impossible to add icon after linked in Application menu and Plank
I can't get the icon for Eclipse to display, although the exec link is present in the Applications menu and Plank, after checking instructions here but it won't display the icon.
I have created an "...
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After update, calculator program is now called unnamed
After a regular software update, the program previously called "Calculator" is now called "Unnamed".
In the applications menu, the icon is still correct, but the program is now called unnamed.
In ...
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How can I set .kdenlive mime format icon on Elementary os?
I am using Kdenlive video editor but all my .kdenlive files are shown in Pantheon files with a blank icon. Googling arround and messing with the hicolor icon theme I have some results only if I change ...
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Unsure of what program is currently not working in top bar [duplicate]
So, I must've installed a program and uninstalled some of it's components, cause I have an icon in the top bar which is not working and I have no clue what it is.
I've tried manually closing ...
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Cogwheel icon on dock when using alt + tab
In the Dock I can see all the icons for the applications I have open.
But there is just a icon with a cogwheel for some applications (Vivaldi, Intellij and Postman in this case) when I cycle through ...
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Icon for .desktop file not showing
I created a .desktop file to launch Chrome in a specific profile. Here is the code:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Chrome School
Comment=Open Chrome in my school account
Exec=google-chrome --...
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Copying status panel icon for diodon
I've installed the clipboard manager diodon, a status panel applet I've used before with Ubuntu that works very well. The only annoyance is that in elementary it doesn't use a monochrome icon, but ...
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Taskbar icons in juno dont work
in juno you can put the icons in the taskbar as in loki ?, example i install slack, discord, telegram... and the application icon does not come out. Any idea how to fix it?
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What do the three dots on the network icon mean?
Trying to diagnose my sudden lack of wifi, but I have no idea what this icon means.
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StatusIcon not showing/working
Good morning dear community, i have a little trouble and i can't found any proper explanation for this issue, actually i'm developing an small application to hear radio streaming using Vala and ...
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Loki - How do I install just Places folder of Icon Theme?
I downloaded the repo Super Flat Remix and I'd like to take just one aspect of it -- the 'places' subfolder, which changes the folder icons in the files app.
Do any of you guys know of any way to do ...
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Can I get a panel icon (similar to a systray icon) for Deadbeef - like Clementine and many other programs have?
Edited after flag and comment to close as duplicate:
This was marked as a duplicate for asking for a system tray icon while it looks elementary OS does not have a system tray. If that is the case, ...
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