Adding an icon in Ubuntu's Unity for applications which don't provide one
Occasionally, when you're exploring the truly vast range of offerings in the Ubuntu Software Archives via the wonderful Ubuntu Software Centre (or maybe via " apt-cache search "), you might find a graphical application that doesn't have an icon. If this happens, there are 2 things to do: Raise a bug on that application to have an icon added. Add an icon temporarily. Raising a bug is easy, just type: $ ubuntu-bug <thing> Where " <thing> " is either the name of the program you are running, or the package that program lives in. However, you can also quickly add an icon yourself using this simple technique... There are 2 steps: Select your icon Create a "desktop" file Icons are installed in the "/usr/share/icons/" directory by default, so have a browse around to see what you like. If you're still struggling to find an appropriate icon, you could add the package wm-icons which adds over 1500 new ones (!): ...