{"id":8547,"date":"2019-01-20T17:16:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T17:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=8547"},"modified":"2019-01-20T17:16:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T17:16:41","slug":"change-show-applications-grid-icon-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/01\/change-show-applications-grid-icon-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change the ‘Show Applications’ Grid Icon in Ubuntu 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For those boring with the default ‘Show Applications<\/b>‘ button in Ubuntu 18.04 left panel, here’s how to replace it with your desired icon without installing a new icon theme.<\/p>\n

In Ubuntu 18.04 Gnome Shell, the ‘Show Applications’ button in the bottom-left corner relies on view-app-grid-symbolic.svg<\/code> icon file located in \/usr\/share\/icons\/Adwaita\/scalable\/actions\/<\/code>.<\/p>\n

By replacing the icon file, you’ll get a brand new ‘Show Applications’ icon in the dock.<\/p>\n

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1.<\/b> Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut, or from applcation menu.<\/p>\n

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2.<\/b> Paste the following command and hit run to backup the original icon file:<\/p>\n

sudo cp -p \/usr\/share\/icons\/Adwaita\/scalable\/actions\/view-app-grid-symbolic.svg \/usr\/share\/icons\/Adwaita\/scalable\/actions\/view-app-grid-symbolic.svg.bak<\/pre>\n
Type user password (no asterisks feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n
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3.<\/b> Prepare your desired .svg<\/code> icon file. In my case, it’s gnome-launcher.svg<\/code> located in my ‘Downloads’ folder.<\/p>\n
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4.<\/b> Copy your .svg<\/code> to the original file location:<\/p>\n
sudo cp \/path\/to\/your\/svg<\/b> \/usr\/share\/icons\/Adwaita\/scalable\/actions\/view-app-grid-symbolic.svg<\/pre>\n
In my case, the command is:<\/p>\n
sudo cp ~\/Downloads\/gnome-launcher.svg \/usr\/share\/icons\/Adwaita\/scalable\/actions\/view-app-grid-symbolic.svg<\/pre>\n
5.<\/b> Finally, run command to refresh the icon cache:<\/p>\n
cd \/usr\/share\/icons && sudo gtk-update-icon-cache Adwaita<\/pre>\n
Or simply log out and login back to apply the change.<\/p>\n
How to Restore:<\/h4>\n
As you’ve made a backup in step 2, simply copy the file back via command:<\/p>\n
sudo cp -p \/usr\/share\/icons\/Adwaita\/scalable\/actions\/view-app-grid-symbolic.svg.bak \/usr\/share\/icons\/Adwaita\/scalable\/actions\/view-app-grid-symbolic.svg<\/pre>\n
And refresh icon cache or log out and back in.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For those boring with the default ‘Show Applications‘ button in Ubuntu 18.04 left panel, here’s how to replace it with your desired icon without installing a new icon theme. In Ubuntu 18.04 Gnome Shell, the ‘Show Applications’ button in the bottom-left corner relies on view-app-grid-symbolic.svg icon file located in \/usr\/share\/icons\/Adwaita\/scalable\/actions\/. By replacing the icon file, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1631,1632],"class_list":["post-8547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-change-show-applications-icon","tag-change-the-grid-icon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}