How to change the ugly chrome/chromuim tray icon

I'm writing a script to fix hardcoded indicator icons, and i'm having a problem fixing the google chrome/chromium indicator icon.

There's two icons that are shown in the tray; i managed to fix the bell one by modifying the chrome_100_percent.pak, but i couldn't change the Chrome/Chromium logo one. There's three icons in the same chrome_100_percent.pak file, changing them does not change the indicator icon, neither changing the icons in /opt/google/chrome.

Thanks!

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4 Answers

I fixed this in my script; Thank you all!

On my Ubuntu install, I see a bunch of icons here

/usr/share/icons/hicolor/XXxXX/apps/google-chrome.png

Where XXxXX are as follows

128x128

16x16

192x192

22x22

24x24

256x256

32x32

36x36

48x48

512x512

64x64

72x72

I would say the ones you need to modify are probably one these sizes

16x16

22x22

24x24

Close Chrome/Chromium Try modifying/replacing one of them, and then run the following

sudo gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/hicolor

I also see a large icon-theme.cache cache in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/, that may need to be refreshed if the above did not refresh it.

I checked my other computer that has Mint 17.2 install, and I see the same files in the same locations.

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Check the output of the command below to list all installed images by the packages google-chrome-stable, google-chrome-unstable, google-chrome-beta

dpkg -l | awk '/google-chrome-/ {print $2}' | xargs -i'{}' dpkg -L {} | grep -P 'png|jpg'

Example output

/opt/google/chrome-beta/product_logo_32.png
/opt/google/chrome-beta/product_logo_22.png
/opt/google/chrome-beta/product_logo_128.png
/opt/google/chrome-beta/product_logo_48.png
/opt/google/chrome-beta/product_logo_64.png
/opt/google/chrome-beta/product_logo_16.png
/opt/google/chrome-beta/product_logo_256.png
/opt/google/chrome-beta/product_logo_24.png

These icons are used in the tray. You can check it, if you trust me, with the next command. The command removes all the icons.

dpkg -l | \ awk '/google-chrome-/ {print $2}' | \ xargs -i'{}' dpkg -L {} | grep -P 'png|jpg' | \ sudo xargs rm

After that kill all chrome processes and restart Chrome again. It appears no icon.

Now install Chrome again via

sudo apt-get install --reinstall google-chrome-…

and customize your icons. :)

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I believe from when I used 14.04, and this may apply, that you can either go the the properties menu (easy way) and replace the image with an image file you have, or you can do it with the terminal (the intermediate way).

Please look at the text above me by 2 comments for the correct code (if it's correct, why do I need to restate it), or you can use the properties menu method, select and image, and save your changes. However, when you get updates, the image in the store will remain the same (unlike the other where it changes it in the app store, you should still have the image showing up the same on your desktop and task-bar when you're looking at it.

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