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How do I add an icon to an app that doesn't have one?

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Some apps from the Ubuntu Software Center don't have any icons that Ubuntu Unity desktop even sees, such as ERIC, the Python IDE. The results are ugly:

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I get this ugly question mark icon, and I can't find any way to configure that icon. There is no more ability to create a launcher icon on my desktop, or to really control (from the Unity GUI anyways) what icon appears for an app, and if the default ways that Unity finds icons break down, it appears that the results are stuck on "ugly" permanently.

Ubuntu version: 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)

Update: The answers so far show that something is wrong with my brand new installation, because other people see the icon for eric (eric.png, I guess). Interestingly, many icons in Ubuntu are SVG, and some are PNG. I wonder if that's the problem. Still no ability to change or set the icon for any app, either using the GUI, or via VI-and-terminal-and-editing files.

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answered 1 Year ago lawain · Accepted Answer

The icon for eric is set in /usr/share/applications/eric.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]

Name=Eric python IDE

Name[es]=IDE para python Eric

Comment=Full featured Python IDE

Comment[es]=Completo entorno de programaci贸n para Python

Exec=eric

Terminal=false

Type=Application

Icon=eric

Categories=Development;IDE;

StartupNotify=true

On disk this appears to be:

/usr/share/pixmaps/eric.xpm

On my system eric is showing the proper icon in the dash, no idea why yours isn't doing that, but from looking at the default icon you might want to just set another one:

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