HelloMy question and I hope it's a simple one, has to with changing the icon of a particular file.Depending in the Icon theme one chooses most of the system icons will change.All the Folder, OpenOffice, Txt, GZ, BZ2, and TAR (to name a few) Icons will change.Now lets say you want to just change or r ...
Hello. Is it possible to change the default position of the icons on the Gnome desktop? Specifically, I'd like to have my icons line up on the right-hand side of my screen by default. I know I can just drag them there, but then if I choose "Clean up by name" then they head back over to the ...
The default icons Ubuntu creates is just too big for my taste, is there a way to make the default icons smaller without resort to resize them one by one?MacPC ...
I've installed OpenOffice 3, and I want to use a different icon than the ones provided. Where are they located?For example, when I change the icons in the menu editor, Gnome-Do is still looking for the stock OOo3 images. ...
HiMy experience using Breezy just keeps getting better - but the default icon set for nautilus folder icons is pretty boring.Is there an easy way to change nautilus icons with ones from gnome-looks.org?If I have missed an available customisation guide for this task please forgive me and point me in ...
I've installed VLC, which I want to use as my default movie player. But whenever I insert a DVD into my computer, totem starts to play the movie. How do I go about changing this? I have got some flash video files on my hard drive, and I was able to right-click on them and change default player in Pr ...
For some reason I lost my default icon sizes in Nautilus. This only appears to affect any graphic files like .jpg, .png, etc. that I keep in my "Pictures" folder. I also have this issue with video files that I keep in my "Video" folder.Currently I am running Ubuntu Natty and usin ...
Im running Ubuntu and i installed kubuntu-desktop. When i installed it it asked me which one i wanted as the default (KDE or Gnome). I chose KDE and it also takes over the login screen and when my computer starts i get the kubuntu loading screen. How can i change it back to Ubuntu/Gnome? ...
I run a copy of conky that puts mp3 lyrics on my desktop. The place where the lyric appear is on the left side of my screen. Unfortunately, this is also the default location for desktop icons (i.e., if I download something to desktop, or I add a launcher to the desktop by right-clicking something). ...
After I installed java and restarted the computer, there has been a blank disc icon there every since. (This is on Hardy Heron.) Is there a way to get rid of this icon without changing the apps>nautilus>desktop>volumes_visible value to false? (It wasn't here before, I don't know why it is n ...
How do I Add Filesystem Icon to desktop. ...
I recently added a new shortcut to that bar thing up top and made it execute "xkill" so that I can click up there then click on a window to kill it. But, I'm having a bit of trouble changing the icon. I found one that I would like to change it to online, so I saved it to my computer, but i ...
I really hate the default icon that gnome (nautilus?) uses when it doesn't know what kind of file it is. Its the gnome logo. The G-foot. As if every file has something to do with gnome, unless otherwise specified. I'm sure there's no way to change this without editing some obscure config file in my ...
I was just wondering if there's a way to set a default icon in gnome for a particular file extension. For example, Azureus comes with an icon for use with *.torrent files.. is there a way to assign this to the extension? ...
Problem:I have a 4GB Transcend USB drive. Ubuntu is able to mount and detect this USB drive. Whenever I insert the USB drive, it shows the USB icon on my desktop. Last night, for some unknown reason, when I inserted the USB drive, it's no longer showing the default USB icon. It's showing a different ...
I know how to install icons but i do not want to do it that way because almost all of the icons pack out there are incomplete leaving some of my programs with no icons if i install it.Now i want to use ubuntu icon but i just want to change the icons of the folders only. Can anybody direct me to the ...
I am using a Gnome desktop with a custom mouse icon theme (a left-hand DMZ white), but inside applications using qt libraries like kaffeine, the mouse icons revert to the default right-hand variant. I have qt-config installed, but there seems to be no option to choose a mouse icon theme. Where do I ...
Today I installed Xubuntu desktop on my normal Ubuntu, to see what it's like, and to have the option to run a more minimal desktop when I want.My only problem is that my login screen loads with the Xubuntu theme. This wouldn't be a problem except it makes it take significantly longer to boot into Ub ...
Currently the desktop volume control is controling the wrong slider in the Gnome sound mixer panel. Adjusting the default desktop sound using the hot keys (mine is controlled via remote) changes the mono master volume. However, the PCM volume control actually controls the system volume, so the deskt ...
I would like to change the icon for a custom application launcher on my top panel. I have downloaded a svg and png version of the icon I would like to use. If I right-click, properties, left-click icon, browse to desktop the icons do not show up as something I can select. If I sudo mv the svg icon d ...
Okay so I created a custom launcher for 2 wine programs on my desktop and dragged them to my launcher to add them. They were both using the default cup of wine icon.The first one kept this icon, the second one changed to the default custom launcher icon for gnome. I have since changed them to the ga ...
I have had this issue with several installs of ubuntu followed by installing edubuntu. I have computers that I have installed in this fashion, but the adults in the house want the regular ubuntu theme for new users added to the system, not the more child-centric edubuntu theme. They would prefer not ...
I can't seem to figure out how to change the logout/shutdown icon on the panel. I am using the icon set Faenza Elementary, but I don't like the logout/shutdown icon, because to me it doesn't match the rest of the icons on the panel. I want to use the logout/shutdown icon that's in the standard Faenz ...
Hello, when I set images as desktop backgrounds, Firefox or Nautilus saves them in my home folder. Does anyone know how to change this to ~/pictures/backgrounds? ...
I've got ubuntu-desktop-kubuntu-desktop and xubuntu-desktop installed on my machine. I like experimenting! :)My default session is Xfce, but I have a number of Gnome and KDE-based apps thrown in as well. The default file manager is Thunar. But I want to change it to Nautilus so a number of options ( ...
I have switched to Ubuntu 8.04 just recently and added a launcher on the Desktop.It links a folder on my Windows partition.How can I change its icon ? ...
Hai,I want to put the My Computer icon in my desktop.....I m using ubuntu hardy....I tried with create launcher...But i dont know the command....Please give me the command for my computer in create launcher...Every time when i click an windows drive..automatically its shortcut icon appears in deskto ...
I have latest Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with Gnome.Whenever I insert a blank CD/DVD and icon on the desktop appears saying Blank CD/DVD.Is there any way to disable this?Please help ...
FIXED. My mistake. Not Ubuntu related. FIXEDHi, hope somebody can help with a minor but rather annoying problem:There is a speaker icon on my desktop and I can't remove it. It has not been there before. I noticed it after I played around with XBMC 10 and a Youtube plugin. It shows all the time no ma ...