I am trying to change the default orange cone icon for the VLC media player on the Unity bar in 11.10. I have tried following similar posts in this forum, but without any luck. I changed the vlc.png icon I found in the /usr/share/icons/hicolor/256×256/apps directory (which i assume is the icon used on the unity bar) by copying a different .png file to it with the same name. It is also a 256×256 pixel .png file. I restarted Ubuntu and the orange cone is still there. I've read tidbits online about having to recompile the program or something, so I don't know if this is more complicated a process than I assumed. I'd also like to be able to do this for other programs, but this one specifically (for now at least). I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions! Thanks!
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I updated my icon cache and the vlc icon is changed in dash, but not when I place it on the unity bar. I've noticed that certain applications have icons stored in different directories and I'm wondering if I'm missing something. I tried out a new icon for google chrome and that one worked, but VLC won't.
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Well I tried placing an icon in 128×128 and that didn't work either. Is it possible the icon is some how hardcoded into the program? I've also now succesfully changed firefox's icon as well…so I don't think I'm doing something wrong
Best Answer
If it isn't an issue with the theme you're using, then have you tried updating the icon cache with
sudo gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/hicolor? (replace "hicolor" by whichever theme you're using. You'll need to put the icon in the appropriate theme folder as well)As a bit of extra information. In
/usr/share/applicationsyou'll find avlc.desktopfile. You could change the following line:With another Icon of your choice (I prefere to set a svg file in the "scalable" directory rather than a rasterized x by y png ). After that you have to do the update command I gave earlier.
If you encounter any issues with the update command try appending the -f -t options.