How to change app icon?

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how to change app icon?

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You have to do some command-line fu:

  1. Copy the Desktop definition file of the application you want to change it’s icon to proper per-user path:
mkdir ~/.local/share/applications
cp /sysroot/flatpak/exports/org.gnome.Boxes.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
  1. Now edit this file:
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/org.gnome.Boxes.desktop
  1. And replace the following line with the Icon of your choice.
Icon=org.gnome.Boxes

For the Icon, you can either use a absolute path to point to a file in your home directory (e.g. Icon=/sysroot/home/users/Pictures/myicon.png) or to some generic name from a icon set (e.g. Icon=rhythmbox)

  1. Mark the file as trusted and restart the Shell
gio set ~/.local/share/applications/org.gnome.Boxes.desktop metadata::trusted yes
killall gnome-shell
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