Different Icons For Same Application.

[potent shore]

You can see the icon of the firefox (the bluish) is the one I want, where as when I open it up, there is a different one

[weary siren]

if you changed the icon yourself, you will always get the one your current theme has. Like if you have one theme that has diffrent. AND the custom icon you set it up yourself. Then when you open, the system one will always show up.

[potent shore]

So, what can I do?

[weary siren]

well, if you want the bluish icons, try to find an icon pack that has simillar colors to your custom setup icon

[potent shore]

Can't find one

What if I create one on my own?

[weary siren]

then you create one on your own. but this will take some work.

[potent shore]

Can you create one for me?

[weary siren]

i can't, sorry. but i think other could, for some money.

[potent shore]

no problem

[ember eagle]

this is related to desktop entries. Show the relevant desktop entries

they should be in /usr/share/applications or ~/.local/share/applications

[thin epoch]

Edit the desktop entry with a text editor:

Replace this with a hard path to the icon you want.

Icon=firefox-esr

Icon=/path/to/icon/that/I/want.png

.desktop files are typically found in /usr/share/applications/.

[potent shore]

done already

[thin epoch]

Then please mark this as resolved.

[potent shore]

But doesn't work

[ember eagle]

show your desktop entry

[thin epoch]

Did you relog?

On some DE, it takes a while to update. A relog will force that.

[potent shore]

what is relog?

[ember eagle]

log out, log in

[dawn ember]

If you want to reset the icon you can delete the .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications

You can set a different icon using the cinammon menu editor

Open the menu > right click desired application > properties > click the image and change the icon to a suitable one

[potent shore]

I am ysing XFCE

[dawn ember]

Ohh I didn't see that sorry

But try checking this directory for any entries

[frail plaza]

i did one thing with vivaldi and changed the icon to netscape navigator and how i did that was find all the vivaldi icons (not from themes bc themes dont change whats shown in taskbar) and replaced like everything with netscape icon w all the dimentions and everything its super tedious and then theres the svgs and i dont think i even bothered with that i just figured out what was already being used so i can ignore everything that is there and not needed for me to change ig

there should be a simpler way but i couldnt find anything for me personally

[ember eagle]

@frail plaza There is a simpler way to change icons for an application, and that is to change the icon in the desktop entry of that application, which you can find in /usr/share/applications

[frail plaza]

yes i am not talking about that i mean it to use the custom icon EVERYWHERE including in the taskbar

[potent shore]

I did them in /usr/share/applications but they didn't work

[frail plaza]

if im guessing correctly at what you want then this is what you have to do