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Changing the alternative icon

Gustavo Reis edited this page Apr 18, 2019 · 2 revisions

Firefox

  1. Go to /usr/share/applications/;
  2. Go to the .desktop file of Firefox app;
  3. Open the file with your favourite text editor;
  4. Find Icon= and replace it with one of three alternatives: Icon=firefox or Icon=firefox-mozilla or Icon=firefox-traditional. Save it.

Alternative icon

  1. Open the terminal and run cd ~/Suru++/apps/scalable/;

  2. To download and save inside this folder, run the script:

    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gusbemacbe/suru-plus/master/tools/alternative-icon.sh
    
  3. Make it executable and trusted:

    chmod a+x alternative-icon.sh
    
  4. Run the script:

    ./alternative-icon.sh
    

    You will be asked, for example:

    ~/alt-icon.sh
    => Old symlink
    user.svg
    => New symlink
    user-alt1.svg

    If you do not like one alternate and want to try another, run like:

    => Old symlink
    user-alt1.svg
    => New symlink
    user-alt2.svg

File manager icon

  1. Go to the folder /usr/share/applications, for example, if you want to change the default icon of Nautilus, your favourite file manager, find nautilus.desktop;
  2. Run as sudo and change Icon= to any of these:
  • Icon=file-manager
  • Icon=caja
  • Icon=nautilus
  • Icon=nemo
  • Icon=spacefm-find
  • Icon=thunar

Remember that if you install a new update of your system, these desktop files will revert to the original icon name. Move them to ~./local/share/applications. Note that after the upgrade of your system, it will add automatically the desktop files in the /usr/share/applications, so you need to remove them again.

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