How to Resize or Hide Arrows on Desktop Icons in GNOME 20.04

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I have upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04LTS. So far, everything is running well except my desktop icons sometimes exhibit a massive arrow (this is the case of the *.desktop files:

arrow

Is there a way to resize and or hide these arrows? I did not see any possibility in gnome-tweaks.
To make it clear: in the above icons, Corbeille (created by the system) is what I would like to see. Veramtex and Pycharm both are .desktop files with the corresponding icons. Only there appears a large arrow on both. Could I get rid of those?
Here is the content of Pycharm.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Terminal=true
Name=Pycharm
Icon=/..../pycharm-community-2020.2/bin/pycharm.png
Exec=/..../pycharm-community-2020.2/bin/pycharm.sh
Name[fr_BE]=Pycharm

And this is icon pycharm.png (without the arrow)

enter image description here

Best Answer

  • While the referenced post by Ali I. Demirel suggests removing/renaming icons or creating .desktop files. I expect them to work.

  • Here is an alternative option, resizing the icons or make them fully transparent (extreme ratio 1%/10000%~5%/2000%).

    sudo apt install imagemagick-6.q16
sudo find /usr/share/icons/Yaru/ -name "emblem-symbolic-link.png" \
-exec cp -v {} {}.bak \; \
-exec convert {} -resize 50% \
-background transparent -gravity SouthEast -extent 200% {} \;

    1. sudo:/usr/share/icons/Yaru/ is a system directory

    2. find ... -name "emblem-symbolic-link.png": Search for icons

    3. find ... -exec cp {} {}.bak \;: Make a backup copy

    4. find ... -exec convert {} -resize 50% -background transparent -gravity SouthEast -extent 200% {} \;

      Resize it down to 50% (half), Set default background color, Set default position, Extant image back to original size which is 200% (double).

    Logout/Login again to apply (Or Alt+F2-r to restart Gnome-Shell if you are Not using Wayland)

  • To restore them back to original:

    sudo find /usr/share/icons/Yaru/ -name "emblem-symbolic-link.png.bak" -exec sh -c 'cp -v {} $(dirname {})/$(basename -s.bak {})' \;
## worst case, reinstall icons
sudo apt --reinstall install yaru-theme-icon

    Logout/Login again to apply (Or Alt+F2-r to restart Gnome-Shell if you are Not using Wayland)

  • Results for 50%/200% ratio in below screenshot:

    Image: Results for 50%/200% ratio in below screenshot

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