How do you set the icon associated with a program? I'm not talking about the image used in the menu or on the panel, which is easy to update. I'm thinking about the image that is shown when, for example, you click on the Window Selector dropdown or Alt-Tab between applications.

Many programs have unique icons shown - for example, Firefox uses a blue globe, the same as the default program icon - but others just user a generic "blank paper" icon. I'd like to set up specific images for one or two applications I regularly have open, such as urxvt or gkrellm so that it is easy to distinguish between them.

I've done some searching around but I think I haven't got the right vocabulary to frame the question properly. Any clues?

Wulf

curious about this too

Okay - that's two of us who are curious... any takers for an answer?

Wulf

You would show properties, push the ICON button, or "use custom icon", and change the i 1f40 con. You could copy an icon to /usr/share/pixmaps or you could create your own icon and then copy it to /usr/share/pixmaps.

I think he mean in the 'applications tab'.

write in the console:

nautilus applications:///Internet

or

nautilus applications:///System

or what you want to modify

Sorry - I tried both right clicking icons and choosing properties, etc, and also going through the Nautilus URI. I can change the appearance of icons in the menus with no problem but it's the icons when you use alt-tab (etc) that I'm after.

That's got to be hidden somewhere different. For example, if I change to the default Ubuntu icons (I'm using the Gnome set at the moment), the icon for Thunderbird changes... but not the alt-tab graphic. There must be a gnome setting somewhere or a directory that I need to place an icon of a suitable filetype into for it to be picked up.

Wulf

I'd like to get more information on the icons, too. Does it have something to do with Gnome or with the provided package? I really think it's a horrible idea to replace well-known icons with some blue globe or bad quality envelope.

After upgrading to Ubuntu's FF 1.0.1 package downloading was buggy. I also disliked the blue globe (because other users don't know what that is, but they do know the FF icon) and inserting the package name into User-Agent form. So I decided to "sudo apt-get remove mozilla-firefox". I downloaded the Debian package and installed that. The globe was still there and User Agent was changed from "Ubuntu-xxxpackage" to "Debian-xxxpackage". So once again I removed Firefox.

This time I decided to grab the binary from Mozilla's site. I installed it and, wow, I was finally able to see the cool fox! I also got rid of the User Agent modifications, now it displays this:

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

After all, it's all about privacy and security.

Oh well, that didn't have much to do with this thread. So any idea is it possible to replace the blue globe with the well-known fox icon?

EDIT: OK, the answer for this question can be found from here. That's too bad, guess I'll be sticking with Mozilla's binary.

I am having the same problem with the Emacs icon. When I navigate from "Applications-->Accessories," I see an Emacs icon with a gnu bull. I click on this icon to start emacs, but then when i use Alt-Tab to navigate between windows, there is no bull-- instead, there is a blank icon (perhaps the default icon for applications with unspecified icons). How can I change this?

I have been looking all around for a solution to thi 1f40 s. Many people seem to have the problem, but no one has posted a solution to this.

If there is a solution, I still haven't found it! I think I've just adapted the way I work (making more use of different desktops) that it's not a burning issue for me any more. Anyway, I guess you could always use vim... (joke! - no serious flame intended).

Wulf

Anyone figure out how to do this?