Icons – How to Change Skype Tray Icon

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Skype version 4.2 comes with a low res 48×48 statusbar/tray icon. How can I change the icon to a higher resolution icon?

Best Answer

I made a .deb package with a hack that compels sni-qt:i386 to use images located in /usr/share/pixmaps/skype/ directory for systemtray skype status icons, based on webguruz.ru page.

To install

wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/x91gec5q0uz3hnx/sni-qt_0.2.6-0ubuntu1_i386-modified.deb?dl=0 -O sni-qt_0.2.6-0ubuntu1_i386-modified.deb

sudo dpkg -i sni-qt_0.2.6-0ubuntu1_i386-modified.deb

Then you need to install new icons, for that follow the steps bellow:

wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/wimn53noljv0vbi/skype_systemtray_custom_icons.zip?dl=0 -O skype_systemtray_custom_icons.zip

unzip skype_systemtray_custom_icons.zip

sudo mkdir /usr/share/pixmaps/skype

sudo cp skype/* /usr/share/pixmaps/skype

sudo chmod +r /usr/share/pixmaps/skype/*

The icon set I provide here is based on Faenza-Dark Theme, for change the icons, just replace the images in /usr/share/pixmaps/skype directory.

To remove

sudo dpkg -r sni-qt_0.2.6-0ubuntu1_i386-modified.deb
sudo rm -r /usr/share/pixmaps/skype
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