How do I change the icon of an application in my dash / favorites area?

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This is a picture of my dash in Gnome:



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The second icon is a shortcuts to an Emacs process. It used to show the Emacs icon but now it just shows the generic icon.



How do I change what icon is associated with a favorite (and ideally make it the same as the application icon showin "Applications"?







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    This is a picture of my dash in Gnome:



    enter image description here



    The second icon is a shortcuts to an Emacs process. It used to show the Emacs icon but now it just shows the generic icon.



    How do I change what icon is associated with a favorite (and ideally make it the same as the application icon showin "Applications"?







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      This is a picture of my dash in Gnome:



      enter image description here



      The second icon is a shortcuts to an Emacs process. It used to show the Emacs icon but now it just shows the generic icon.



      How do I change what icon is associated with a favorite (and ideally make it the same as the application icon showin "Applications"?







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      This is a picture of my dash in Gnome:



      enter image description here



      The second icon is a shortcuts to an Emacs process. It used to show the Emacs icon but now it just shows the generic icon.



      How do I change what icon is associated with a favorite (and ideally make it the same as the application icon showin "Applications"?









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          Is this programm in your favorites?
          First you need to find the .desktopfile.
          Enter gsettings get org.gnome.shell favorite-apps to get all the names of your favorites. Fore exaple these are mine: ['firefox.desktop', 'org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop']



          find ~ /usr/ -name the.name.desktop


          will scan your system for the .desktopfile (replace the.name.desktop with the filename you want to look for in your personal and /user folders.



          Then you can edit the desktopfile (perhaps as root). Change the line (or add the line) Icon=.... There you can put the name of your icon or the whole path to the image you want to use.






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            Is this programm in your favorites?
            First you need to find the .desktopfile.
            Enter gsettings get org.gnome.shell favorite-apps to get all the names of your favorites. Fore exaple these are mine: ['firefox.desktop', 'org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop']



            find ~ /usr/ -name the.name.desktop


            will scan your system for the .desktopfile (replace the.name.desktop with the filename you want to look for in your personal and /user folders.



            Then you can edit the desktopfile (perhaps as root). Change the line (or add the line) Icon=.... There you can put the name of your icon or the whole path to the image you want to use.






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              Is this programm in your favorites?
              First you need to find the .desktopfile.
              Enter gsettings get org.gnome.shell favorite-apps to get all the names of your favorites. Fore exaple these are mine: ['firefox.desktop', 'org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop']



              find ~ /usr/ -name the.name.desktop


              will scan your system for the .desktopfile (replace the.name.desktop with the filename you want to look for in your personal and /user folders.



              Then you can edit the desktopfile (perhaps as root). Change the line (or add the line) Icon=.... There you can put the name of your icon or the whole path to the image you want to use.






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                Is this programm in your favorites?
                First you need to find the .desktopfile.
                Enter gsettings get org.gnome.shell favorite-apps to get all the names of your favorites. Fore exaple these are mine: ['firefox.desktop', 'org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop']



                find ~ /usr/ -name the.name.desktop


                will scan your system for the .desktopfile (replace the.name.desktop with the filename you want to look for in your personal and /user folders.



                Then you can edit the desktopfile (perhaps as root). Change the line (or add the line) Icon=.... There you can put the name of your icon or the whole path to the image you want to use.






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                Is this programm in your favorites?
                First you need to find the .desktopfile.
                Enter gsettings get org.gnome.shell favorite-apps to get all the names of your favorites. Fore exaple these are mine: ['firefox.desktop', 'org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop']



                find ~ /usr/ -name the.name.desktop


                will scan your system for the .desktopfile (replace the.name.desktop with the filename you want to look for in your personal and /user folders.



                Then you can edit the desktopfile (perhaps as root). Change the line (or add the line) Icon=.... There you can put the name of your icon or the whole path to the image you want to use.







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