How to change the application icon on UbuntuUnity

This article will teach you how to modify the application icon on UbuntuUnity. This tutorial is applicable to Ubuntu14.04, Ubuntu13.10, Ubuntu12.04, and other releases that use Unity as the default desktop environment. In the Unity desktop environment, the program launcher is actually stored on the computer in the form of files with the. desktop suffix, so we can edit the. desktop file to change the program icon. The following uses Firefox as an example to teach you how to change the icon: 1.

This article will teach you how to modify application icons on Ubuntu Unity. This tutorial is applicable to Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 12.04, and other releases that use Unity as the default desktop environment.

In the Unity desktop environment, the program launcher is actually stored on the computer in the form of files with the. desktop suffix, so we can edit the. desktop file to change the program icon.

The following uses Firefox as an example to teach you how to change the icon:

In general,. desktop files are stored in the/usr/share/applications/directory, while others may be stored in ~ /. Local/share/applications/directory. You can use the File Manager to find these files.

After finding it, we need to enter this directory and edit it (use the following command in Terminal ):

Cd/usr/share/applications

Sudo gedit firefox. desktop

After the image is opened, the new image address is changed to the image on the back of the image. The format of the image format is. PNG. The size is 64 × 64 or 128 × 128.

After modification, click Save to view the effect in Dash:

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