Now the browser window should close and you should see your custom made icon in the upper left corner of the properties window, close the properties window. Navigate to the saved copy of your new icon in the folder you created and select it. Now you can close the file manager windows.įind and Right click a launcher you want to change the icon for, chose "properties" from the drop down list, and click the icon image in the upper left corner of the properties window, which should open a browser window for you. Keep the originals of your custom icons in your working folder, because any you actually use will become the property of Root. Copy icons from your working folder and paste the copies into the new folder you just created, rename them. To prepare your new icon for use, open the containing folder as administrator, open a new window and browse to the user/share/icons directory, or user/share/pixmaps if you prefer, and create a folder with the unique name of your intended Icon theme. I prefer Inkscape and The Gimp, because they can create lines and marks as small as ¼ pixel, and for icon creation you really need that. Either of those image formats can usually include transparent areas no matter which program you used to make them.
Whether you use Inkscape, Gimp, or other image creation software to make your icons is totally a matter of personal choice, just create the image to a standard Icon size, in either svg or png format. I don't like Inkscape's png export, but for svg Icons it works very well. You can use Inkscape to create svg icons, or even use it to convert and resize images created in gimp for later use as icons. Save your Icons as png files with standard icon dimensions if your version of Gimp cant handle the svg format. You can create custom Icons in Gimp, and save them as. You can use Gimp to create the graphic elements for window border, and other themes, but I have no clue what dimensions they should be, what image formats can be used, where that information can be found, or how to put the graphic elements together into a working and usable theme.Ĭan someone please point us to a tutorial for that, if there is one?Īlthough I don't know about the themes, I can tell you my method for creating and using custom Icons.
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