{"id":10244,"date":"2020-06-06T15:13:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T15:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=10244"},"modified":"2020-06-06T15:13:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T15:13:15","slug":"change-start-menu-icon-ubuntu-20-04-lts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/06\/change-start-menu-icon-ubuntu-20-04-lts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Start Menu Icon in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Want to change the ‘Show Applications’ dot grid icon<\/b> in the dock panel of Ubuntu 20.04 Gnome Desktop?<\/p>\n

The start menu dot grid icon relies on the view-app-grid-symbolic.svg<\/code> icon. For default Yaru<\/b> icon theme, it’s located in \/usr\/share\/icons\/Yaru\/scalable\/actions<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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To replace the icon, open terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard, then do following steps one by one.<\/p>\n

1.)<\/b> Make a backup of the original icon file:<\/p>\n

cd \/usr\/share\/icons\/Yaru\/scalable\/actions\/ && sudo cp view-app-grid-symbolic.svg view-app-grid-symbolic.svg.bak<\/pre>\n
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2.) Grab a SVG icon from web<\/b>. In the case, I downloaded this ubuntu logo svg<\/a>. <\/p>\n
NOTE: it must be a .svg<\/code> icon file.<\/p>\n
3.)<\/b> Copy (or move) your .svg<\/code> to replace the start menu icon:<\/p>\n
sudo cp \/path\/to\/your\/svg<\/b> \/usr\/share\/icons\/Yaru\/scalable\/actions\/view-app-grid-symbolic.svg<\/pre>\n
In my case the command is:<\/p>\n
sudo cp ~\/Downloads\/ubuntu-icon.svg \/usr\/share\/icons\/Yaru\/scalable\/actions\/view-app-grid-symbolic.svg<\/pre>\n
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4.)<\/b> Finally apply changes by pressing Alt+F2<\/b>, type r<\/b> in pup-up ‘Run a command’ box, and hit Enter to restart Gnome.<\/p>\n
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To restore changes<\/b>, simply copy back the backup file you did in step 1 by running command:<\/p>\n
cd \/usr\/share\/icons\/Yaru\/scalable\/actions\/ && sudo cp view-app-grid-symbolic.svg.bak view-app-grid-symbolic.svg<\/pre>\n
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