Want to change the ‘Show Applications’ dot grid icon in the dock panel of Ubuntu 20.04 Gnome Desktop?
The start menu dot grid icon relies on the view-app-grid-symbolic.svg icon. For default Yaru icon theme, it’s located in /usr/share/icons/Yaru/scalable/actions.
To replace the icon, open terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard, then do following steps one by one.
1.) Make a backup of the original icon file:
cd /usr/share/icons/Yaru/scalable/actions/ && sudo cp view-app-grid-symbolic.svg view-app-grid-symbolic.svg.bak
2.) Grab a SVG icon from web. In the case, I downloaded this ubuntu logo svg.
NOTE: it must be a .svg icon file.
3.) Copy (or move) your .svg to replace the start menu icon:
sudo cp /path/to/your/svg /usr/share/icons/Yaru/scalable/actions/view-app-grid-symbolic.svg
In my case the command is:
sudo cp ~/Downloads/ubuntu-icon.svg /usr/share/icons/Yaru/scalable/actions/view-app-grid-symbolic.svg
4.) Finally apply changes by pressing Alt+F2, type r in pup-up ‘Run a command’ box, and hit Enter to restart Gnome.
To restore changes, simply copy back the backup file you did in step 1 by running command:
cd /usr/share/icons/Yaru/scalable/actions/ && sudo cp view-app-grid-symbolic.svg.bak view-app-grid-symbolic.svg
It’s a nice and fun thing to do. Thank you very much.
Thanks, I need to change maximize and icon. I want to restore icons available in Advaita theme.
this didn’t work for me… could it be because I installed a custom theme (with Gnome Tweaks)? Although the theme I’m using contains a view-app-grid-symbolic.svg, but it doesnt show up. I tried changing the file in Adwaita to the one I wanted, too, but nothing is changing. I have Ubuntu 20.04 on HP Pavilion laptop. I already tried other things like logging out and back in, rebooting, etc
In this tutorial Yaru theme is has been edited. It won’t work in any other theme.