I want to change the tooltips for some icons in unity launcher. Is there any way we can do that?
Edit Unity Launcher Tooltips – How to Edit Tooltips for Unity Launcher Icons
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I want to change the tooltips for some icons in unity launcher. Is there any way we can do that?
Best Answer
The unity launcher icons are defined by .desktop files - usually from
/usr/share/applications
.The tooltip is the Name= section in this file - for example, the default seahorse.desktop file looks like:
To change the tooltip on a per user basis, copy the desktop file to your local applications folder i.e.
Then edit this file with you favourite editor and change the
Name=
value for exampleIn the image I've changed
Name=
to be:Open Nautilus and browse to the folder
~/.local/share/applications
and drag and dropseahorse.desktop
to the launcher