Remove Fedora icon from menu

[hnarwan]

Hi All,

This is a largely pointless question but for some reason the 'f' Fedora icon in the top left annoys me a little and i was wondering if there was a way to get rid of it.

I'm on Fedora 12, just downloaded it and getting to grips. With RedHat you have the option under system'>menu to remove icon's, that gets rid of the redhat icon.

I dont see that same option for Fedora and i'm trying to remove it so all i see in the top left is the text: Applications Places System.

any ideas?

thanks
Hardeep

[reed9]

Sounds like you are using GNOME?

Ian's Thoughts: How To: Change The GNOME Menu Bar Icon

You may also need to delete the file /usr/share/icons/gnome/icon-theme.cache

[hnarwan]

Thanks for that. Yes i do have the gnome toolbar, i've literally just installed Fedora 12 from the DVD and made no changes as of yet.

I'm having some trouble following the advice from that link (sorry i'm new to Linux so still finding my feet).

So am I to understand it that the icon next to Applications Places System is in /usr/share/icons/Fedora

Assuming of course i want to edit the Fedora theme which is what i'm running right now?

Do i need to delete icon-theme.cache to remove the gnome footprint icon in that menu bar? I'm unable to do so to see if it works as i get a permission denied error.

Can anyone help me out? In RedHat it was easy but I cant figure a way of doing it in Fedora - i just want to get rid of that icon without replacing it.

thanks
Hardeep

[reed9]

I'm unaware of a way to remove the icon there altogether, but I haven't used GNOME for quite a while.

Icon themes reside in either /usr/share/<icon theme name>/ or ~/.icons/<icon theme name>

There are folders for icons of varying sizes. Usually the panel bar icon is in ../24x24/places and named start-here.png. Changing that will change the icon.

The permission denied error is because your user doesn't have write access to the /usr directory (or anything but their /home directory.) Remove as root.

[hnarwan]

Hi Reed,

I deleted /usr/share/icons/Fedora/24x24/places/start-here.png (which was the 'f' icon) i want to get rid of but even after rebooting it's still there. To make sure i went and deleted the same file from all the folders but i still cant get rid of it!

Any ideas?

[reed9]

If a theme is missing an icon, the system will try to degrade gracefully to a default icon set. I think it's gnome-icon-theme. This prevents having little red X's for icons everywhere. Which by the way, is probably what will happen if you do manage to delete all of the 'F'edora icons. As I said, I don't know of a way to remove that icon altogether in GNOME.

[hnarwan]

I've also tried killall gnome-panel after removing every instance of start-here.png in my current theme /usr/share/icons/Fedora/<number.number>/places but no joy.

I know i'm new to this but if there is a way to remove this icon (which surely there must be) it cant be as hard as i'm making it look right now!

[hnarwan]

Sorry, just noticed your reply. I'm thinking i may just stop with it, the gnome icon isnt that bad so perhaps i'll just stick with that before i break something. Still would have been nice to remove it, Redhat lets you do that from a menu.

[hnarwan]

Last question. Reed I assume you're not running gnome? Are you using KDE instead? I'm loading that now to see if i prefer it. Any others worth a try on Fedora?

[reed9]

I usually use a standalone window manager, pekwm.

Screenshot in this thread.

But KDE4 is coming along nicely, and is definitely more customizable than GNOME. I just tend to prefer lightweight simple programs.