how to change the favorites icon in tray and nemo ?
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how to change the favorites icon in tray and nemo ?
how to replace the five-pointed star icon ?
Re: how to change the favorites icon in tray and nemo ?
Changing specific icons in Linux is very difficult and it may not work.
I do not recommend it. It's way too much work, it will take a huge amount of time.
So always backup the original icon if something goes wrong.
First find where your icon theme is.
Let's say it's
Now you have to locate the icon you want.
Each icon has multiple versions with different sizes, and you have to replace them all.
This is a big guessing game.
The one on the System Tray is an applet.
There is information about it in
In
So you start looking in the Mint-Y folder for any file named
There isn't any!
Where to go from there...
I think they are named differently...
For the icon in Nemo, it should be a "Places" icon.
So I believe the icon is
But this is actually a LINK to another icon in the same folder:
So you would replace that.
Every time you replace something, press Ctrl+Alt+Esc to restart Cinnamon to see if it worked.
And write down everything you did, every file name / path, backup everything.
I do not recommend it. It's way too much work, it will take a huge amount of time.
So always backup the original icon if something goes wrong.
First find where your icon theme is.
Let's say it's
/usr/share/icons/Mint-Y
Now you have to locate the icon you want.
Each icon has multiple versions with different sizes, and you have to replace them all.
This is a big guessing game.
The one on the System Tray is an applet.
There is information about it in
/usr/share/cinnamon/applets/favorites@cinnamon.org
In
metadata.json
it says: "icon": "xapp-favorites-app"
So you start looking in the Mint-Y folder for any file named
xapp-favorites-app
.There isn't any!
Where to go from there...
I think they are named differently...
For the icon in Nemo, it should be a "Places" icon.
So I believe the icon is
/usr/share/icons/Mint-Y/places/symbolic/xapp-user-favorites-symbolic.svg
But this is actually a LINK to another icon in the same folder:
user-bookmarks-symbolic.svg
So you would replace that.
Every time you replace something, press Ctrl+Alt+Esc to restart Cinnamon to see if it worked.
And write down everything you did, every file name / path, backup everything.
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Re: how to change the favorites icon in tray and nemo ?
thank you very much !! it works after I changed xapp-user-favorites-symbolic.svg
Re: how to change the favorites icon in tray and nemo ?
This is the way to change the icon style, but sometimes you may also want to change individual icons. This is not a problem.
Right-click >Properties in the menu for the relevant program and then click on the icon in the small window. You can then select a different one.
Right-click >Properties in the menu for the relevant program and then click on the icon in the small window. You can then select a different one.
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