How to Modify Ubuntu Unity’s Application Icon

Unity is a desktop environment interface, mainly used in Ubuntu systems. It can well support low-configuration hardware systems. In the Unity system desktop, you can modify the icons of applications. The editor below will introduce Ubuntu Unity to you. How to modify the program icon. Let’s go and see it together!

Suitable for: Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 12.04 and other distributions 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 a file with the .desktop suffix, so we can edit the .desktop file to change the program icon.

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

Generally, .desktop files will be stored in the /usr/share/applications/ directory, while others may be stored in the ~/.local/share/applications/ directory. For specific details, you can use the file manager to Find these files.

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

cd /usr/share/applications

sudo gedit firefox.desktop

After opening, you need to change the Icon= to the address of your own new icon. The icon file format is generally .png with a size of 64×64 or 128×128.

After making changes, click Save and you can view the effect in Dash:

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