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    HowTo: Change the Gnome Main Menu Icon

    The last tutorial on this was for 6.06 (Dapper).

    As of this writing, the current Ubuntu release is a year later at 7.04 (Feisty).

    Some people will recommend trying to hunt down every instance of distributor-logo.png or distributor-logo.svg and replacing them one by one.

    Others recommend using a custom icon through gconf-editor (some people swear by this method, but it did not work for me).

    The simplest way to do it (and I forget which thread I read this in, but kudos to whomever suggested it first) is to create a folder in your home directory for the icon theme you use and then put your custom icon in there.

    For example, if you're using the Human icon theme, create this directory structure (the new custom logo is in bold):
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    /home/username/.icons/Human/scalable/places/distributor-logo.png
    Then press Alt-F2 and type
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    killall gnome-panel
    Now you should have your custom logo instead of the Ubuntu logo!
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    Re: HowTo: Change the Gnome Main Menu

    You may also need to edit ~/.icons/Themename/index.theme depending on your theme

    I needed to create the folder ~/.icons/Themename/scalable/places/ and then edit ~/.icons/Themename/index.theme to read (notice the last entry "scalable/places")
    Code:
    Directories=scalable/apps,scalable/filesystems,scalable/mimetypes,scalable/devices,scalable/emblems,scalable/places
    and then added the following lines at the end

    Code:
    [scalable/places]
    MinSize=1
    Size=48
    MaxSize=128
    Context=Places
    Type=scalable
    Edit: And thanks aysiu, I remember trying to change that a long time ago. I had never had been able to figure it out!
    Last edited by kevinlyfellow; July 12th, 2007 at 08:51 AM.

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    Re: HowTo: Change the Gnome Main Menu

    I resorted to rickh of the debian forums before, but it couldn't change everything and was a hassle to maintain. Aysiu's method was by far easier and all encompassing.

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    Re: HowTo: Change the Gnome Main Menu

    It's not really my method. I read it somewhere else on the forums--I forget where.

    The advantages of this method, though, are:

    * It doesn't involve messing with system files and having to back up and/or rename them

    * It's user-specific, which means it won't mess with other users' menu icons and will be preserved if you have a separate /home partition

    * It's simple--it doesn't involve a lot of steps or the downloading and installation of a separate application

    * It replaces only one icon instead of many

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    Re: HowTo: Change the Gnome Main Menu

    thanks buddy "aysiu" i tried many tricks even gconf-editor all waste 3 hours wasted using gconf-editor, after reading your idea just in second everything done 100% perfect thanxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://ubuntuforums.org/images/smilies/guitar.gif

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    Re: HowTo: Change the Gnome Main Menu

    Im going to ask a simple question here that I am sure most of you know, but as a nooborz to Ubuntu, I am still finding challenging.

    I don't have any sub folders in my .icons folder. Is this something that can only be done to a themed up Ubuntu or can this be the only change made? I guess since I am still learning, I am not understanding some of what has been said.

    Any help would be awesome Thanks!

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    Re: HowTo: Change the Gnome Main Menu

    You create the subfolders if they don't exist.

    In the example I gave before, I just had the ~/.icons folder.

    So I created a Human folder inside of that.
    Then I created a scalable folder inside the Human folder.
    Then I created a places folder inside the scalable folder.

    None of those folders were there before.

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    Re: HowTo: Change the Gnome Main Menu Icon

    I have tried all methods and nothing is working at all, why is that?

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    Re: HowTo: Change the Gnome Main Menu Icon

    Quote Originally Posted by digeratiX View Post
    I have tried all methods and nothing is working at all, why is that?
    Can you give more details?

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