Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Gnome. How do I add application icons on the top panel?  This is what I had on Precise:    And this is what I have on Trusty:    I tried icon dragging and the right click, but they only launch the application.  EDIT: note that this question is about Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, the thing that worked in previous releases (such as Precise) does not work anymore.
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Because of Unity's inability to use any Gnome panel applets, I changed back to the classic gnome panel.   However, even in the classic interface, I'm finding I can't right-click the Gnome panel to change anything.  How do you add applets to the Gnome panel in the classic interface?
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trying to create a launcher with a .png image file and main menu keeps on removing it. is .png not supported or do I need to edit the image first?
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Some people (me) would prefer the straight GNOME experience as opposed to the Unity style desktop offered in Ubuntu 17.10.  How can I get the standard GNOME desktop and interface?
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I have a launcher on my desktop and want to add another one manually with the same icon.   When I go to the preferences of the existing launcher and click the icon, it doesn't take me to the folder where the icon is stored but just to my home folder.  How can I find out where the used icon of the launcher is located in my system?
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I've downloaded some nice themes, icon packages, and pointers from sites like gnome-look.  Now, what do I do to use this theme? Do I have to save it in /usr/share/themes?
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I just installed the Gnome Tweak Tool in order to change my icon theme to Faenza, but it seems to have installed some other program named Caribou, which I think is an onscreen keyboard program, with it. This is absolutely useless for me, and frankly, I hate the fact that it was installed silently and without my permission. When I go to uninstall it, it says that it's part of gnome-shell and requires the un-installation of that as well. What do I do?
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I have an Ubuntu 12.10 installation and wanted to try out Fluxbox as a lightweight window manager. When I open Thunar it displays no icons for folders. I've made sure I have a .gtkrc-2.0 in my home directory.  Do you have any ideas what to try out?
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Being a newbee with Ubuntu, I still struggle quite a lot with setting up desktop icons to my apps.  I am currently trying to setup a desktop icon to Arduino IDE and I don't know enough to properly set it up.  Here's the current setup.  I have installed Arduino-1.6.7 in a folder by that name in my home folder.  At present, the only way I can run it is to go to the terminal, CD to the  Arduino-1.6.7 folder and then run it with $ ./arduino.  This works but obviously, I would rather run it with a simple icon.    I have tried to use  method, but when I browse to /usr/share/applications, there is no icon for Arduino.  Thank you for being part of the village that raises this idiot.
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A couple of days ago I was attempting to add an application to the unity launcher from the unity dash and instead of adding the app it created an "empty icon"(blank space) in the launcher there is no way to remove it right clicking produces nothing, hovering over the "icon" does not produce a tool tip, and clicking it does not open an application.  The only thing I can do with it is move it around in the stack of apps in the launcher.    Anyone know how to fix this?
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I have been running Ubuntu 18.04 for a couple of weeks. I upgraded from 16.04 and all went smoothly.   I am not sure what I changed, but this morning I noticed that the "Settings" Icon that launches gnome-control-center is missing from "Show Applications" and the applications menu as well. When I searched from "Show Applications" for gnome-control-center or just settings, nothing showed up.   So, I figured I must have accidentally removed it and figured a reinstall of the package would resolve the issue. I have searched and found several postings where this worked. I tried:  sudo apt install gnome-control-center   And then rebooted - which reinstalled the gnome-control-center and I could then launch it from the command line. However, there was still no Settings Icon in any of the menus.   I also tried many other suggestions including:  sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-control-center sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop --reinstall sudo apt-get install unity-control-center   However, none of these has been successful in restoring the icon into "Show Applications" or any applications menu.   Anyone have any suggestions on something I haven't tried? Would be much appreciated.  Or, is there a way to just manually recreate the icon?   Output of locate gnome-control-center.desktop:  /usr/share/applications/gnome-control-center.desktop  /home/dccrens/.local/share/applications/gnome-control-center.desktop /home/dccrens/.gnome/apps/gnome-control-center.desktop   I am running Ubuntu 18.04 desktop on kernel 4.15.0-45-generic.
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When making a custom launcher, it is nice to have a matching icon for it from the default usr ubuntu directories. The problem that is: Ubuntu seems to store icons in about 50 or more folders. Browsing all of them in nautilus takes ages.  So my question is: Is there some kind of icon browser that shows an overview of all icons in /usr/share/icons/*?
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Some Launcher icons disappear. I locked them but they have disappeared again after boot.  I have Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS which I have installed today and updated.
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I have disabled the global menu and want to put the classic Application/Places/System menu in its place. How would I go about doing that in Ubuntu 12.04LTS?  (Note: I do want to try keeping unity as well as the dock launcher around for now to see if I can get used to that)
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Ubuntu 18.04.1, GNOME 3.28.2, Tweaks -> Extension: Dash to panel  After some updates 05 Jan 2019 - 08 Jan 2019 I began to see sometimes:  Unstable:   (But this is NOT permanent! For example i made screenshot from normal behavior. + Same troubles on login screen which reduces the extensions effect!)  Stable:    Simple temporary fix - is select language with mouse cursor or twice with keyboard hotkeys.
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I upgraded from 11.10 to 12.04 and now my launcher is missing. I opened terminal using CTRL+ALT+T and the menu shows but the GUI (bar) window decorations above that is missing.  Things like CTRL+TAB and image previewer don't work. I've tried whats mentioned  but no luck.  Another Screenshot of my GUI looks :
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I have manually (from command line) installed a software on my Ubuntu 18.04. How do I add it to the "show applications" grid?
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This a specification of my previous question () where I wondered how to create a .desktop file in order to create an icon on the launcher for a Wine application.  I don't understand what do we have to do with the following code:   [Desktop Entry] Name=FooBar Comment=Foo &amp; Bar Exec=sh -c "cd /home/USER/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/FOOBAR_FOLDER; wine foobar.exe" Icon=wine Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Wine; StartupNotify=true       Replace USER and FOOBAR_FOLDER with appropriate values. So you'll be   able to locate your application in the Launcher by typing "FooBar".   This is the top answer given to a question similar to my previous one, which you can see here: , but I don't understand how shall I handle the code I just provided. I tried to copy and paste on the terminal, but it wouldn't work.  In other words, I need that same answer but more comprehensively explained and easier to understand since I don't get what to do with the code provided! Please note, I have few skills with computers. Thank you very much! :)