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Edit Oct 14th, 2015
Apparently this issue is fixed in Google Chrome v46. If you are still experiencing it, try upgrading Chrome.
To fix this issue, you can follow the steps outlined in this post:
Make a copy of the .desktop file of Google Chrome to your user's local applications folder:
cp /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop ~/.local/share/...
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This solution will work on elementary OS 0.3 (Freya) and 0.4 (Loki), Luna users should follow PNG's answer
To change the skype icon (and many other) you have to install the elementary+ icon theme.
This theme is a community maintained addition to elementary OS's default icon theme. It contains icons for several third party applications that resemble ...
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The correct instructions to run are :
env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE='' dropbox start
it worked for me !
The -i option is only necessary the first time to install the daemon, but if you've installed dropbox with the current user, that's already done.
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This is an issue with Google Chrome that affects multiple OSes and has been confirmed in Google's issue tracker. That said, you can work around it in elementary OS.
Workaround:
1. Copy the app launcher
Open the Files app, click in the top location bar, and type /usr/share/applications/.
Find the Google Chrome launcher and copy it (secondary/right-click > ...
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There is one trick, but is only relevant if you are using a small number of folders in the user's home directory. By default, in the home directory there is Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Public, Templates and Videos. It's a set of default user directories, see the freedesktop.org website for further information.
The idea is that you can replace ...
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To zoom in Files you can use Ctrl + the scroll wheel on your mouse.
— fuumind
If you don't have a mousewheel you can also use Ctrl++ or Ctrl+-.
(unfortunately not with number pad keys)
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Dropbox does not recognize Elementary's desktop interface. Therefore, it does not know which icon set to use.
This script has been designed for Elementary OS and I really can recommend it: https://github.com/zant95/elementary-dropbox
Alternatively, you can try running the following commands to use Unity's icon set.
dropbox stop
...
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How to find out which application indicator is broken
You can end the process of each application you are used to see wing-panel step by step and see when the broken indicator hides.
In my case it was the Dropbox indicator.
How to fix the Dropbox indicator
You can run the following script from Nathan Dyer to fix it:
https://github.com/nathandyer/...
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I also wanted to customize some icons from elementaryPlus theme. Here is a solution which however requires a little bit of command line juggling. Basically I created a custom icon theme which inherits from the original elementaryPlus theme:
# Make sure the target directory exists
mkdir ~/.icons
# Copy original elementaryPlus icon theme
cp -r /usr/share/...
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Here's a one-liner to fix the issue as described in Gabriel's answer:
cp /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop ~/.local/share/applications && sed --in-place --regexp-extended 's/^(\[[A-Za-z ]+\])$/\1\nStartupWMClass=Google-chrome-stable/g' ~/.local/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop
To unpack and explain this command line a bit: first ...
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Guide for Luna:
After installing Skype, add this PPA which provides a patched sni-qt, and install it:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rpeshkov/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sni-qt
Then download and install the skype-wrapper icon pack:
wget https://github.com/rpeshkov/skype-wrapper/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
(cd skype-wrapper-master/ &...
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sudo nano /usr/share/applications/dropbox.desktop
then replace the exec line to
Exec=env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE='' dropbox start
dropbox stop
dropbox start -i
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GUI method to change icon of an application:(Using nautilus and Main menu)
Method 1 : Using alacarte
Install Main menu (AKA alacarte)
sudo apt-get install alacarte
Open Main menu
Click on a program and select properties.
Click on app icon.
Browse for new icon and select open.
Close program properties
close Main menu
Method 2: Using nautilus
First we ...
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To zoom in Files you can use Ctrl + the scroll wheel on your mouse.
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For some reason, Plank is unable to match the Spotify window to the original launcher's .desktop file. It's using a "fallback" icon from the window itself. This seems to be something that happens fairly often on cross-platform, non-native apps like Spotify, Chrome, Minecraft, etc.
I haven't tried it myself, but supposedly you can fix it by modifying Spotify'...
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This is not possible at the moment. I reported this on launchpad at Possibility to change folder icons.
You can add a bounty on this if you want to have this feature as soon as possible.
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Also, you can know which applications are using indicators (other than the elementaryOS defaults) executing on terminal:
dbus-send --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=com.canonical.indicator.application /com/canonical/indicator/application/service com.canonical.indicator.application.service.GetApplications | grep "object path"
See the output to find ...
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Yes, this is possible. You can open the dock's preferences by right-clicking on a free space of the dock. Probably you will need several tries not to open context menu from an icon - but believe me, there are preferences:
For me the easiest way to open the preference window was the rightmost bottom of the dock (for bottom-placed dock). In the 'behaviour' ...
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Create a New Mimetype
We have to teach the system about GuitarPro as something called a "mimetype". To do that, we need to create a mimetype package file that contains info about how to identify GuitarPro files.
Create a new file called "guitarpro.xml" at "/usr/share/mime/packages"
In this file we need to make some rules about how to match files to this ...
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Try StartupWMClass=NetBeans IDE 8.1
Source.
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After upgrading to version 46.0.2490.71 and above you may experience this problem again. This problem occurs because WM_CLASS has been changed on google-chrome.
Based on waldyrious's answer, fix it easiest way:
cp /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop ~/.local/share/applications && sed --in-place --regexp-extended 's/^(\[[A-Za-z ]+\])$/\1\...
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It's not possible unless you branch the source code and program in those changes.
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Run the following command to open the calculator entry in Scratch
sudo -i scratch-text-editor /usr/share/applications/pantheon-calculator.desktop
Change the text after line that starts with Name= (it should currently be unnamed or something , if the line isn't there add it) to Calculator.
Or replace the contents of the file with (from my laptop)
[...
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If you enabled the desktop icons by Nautilus (How to enable desktop icons and right click in Elementary OS Freya?), you can do the following:
cd ~/.config/gtk-3.0
nano gtk.css
add the css: .nautilus-desktop.nautilus-canvas-item {color: #ffffff;text-shadow: 1 1 alpha (@fg_color, 0.8);}
restart session
Change the color as you want.
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In the terminal navigate to /usr/share/applications
sudo scratch-text-editor google-chrome.desktop
scroll about halfway down to just above the [Desktop Action NewWindow] section
look for the Icon entry, it should look like this...
Icon=google-chrome
If not, change it to that.
After following the steps, the icon on the launcher may not update ...
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Just do sudo apt -f install after this. dpkg -i or dpkg --install doesn't install dependencies automatically.
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Have you tried this tip? Keep in mind that desktop folders is not a deal in the elementary. This can be harsh, I know.
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