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How do I change the icon of the close tab button on Gedit in a custom distro with LXDE and icewm as window manager? Do you know where it resides or how I can change it? Now, it looks like this:

karel
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  • this is the image showing which button i mean: http://i.imgur.com/1k8kSGM.jpg –  Jan 07 '14 at 00:31
  • It turns out the files are in the gtk themes folder..specifically the folder "nuoveXT2". For future reference the path is: /usr/share/icons/nuoveXT2 or /usr/share/icons. –  Jan 07 '14 at 01:35
  • If this is a custom distro, you need to ask on http://unix.stackexchange.com – RolandiXor Jan 07 '14 at 02:29
  • No worry, the last comment marked this question as resolved so you can close it. –  Jan 07 '14 at 02:32

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Change your theme, and you change the recurring objects on your screen, such as close buttons. UbuntuThemes provides, free, a vast number of themes, and you can deconstruct them to see which elements come from where for custom themes, and more theme change information is available on this board at at Ubuntu directly.

To summarize the steps:

  • Make a folder ~/.themes folder (ignore if you already have one - check with cd ~ & ls -al from a terminal window.
  • Download your theme of choice; double-click on it in your file
    manager to have the archive manager open.
  • Extract the contents into a folder underneath ~/.themes
  • Get the Ubuntu tweak tool: Open the .deb you downloaded, then
    install using the Software Center.
  • Launch the Ubuntu tweak tool - go to "Tweaks" and pick your theme.
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K7AAY
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  • sorry i forgot to say i'm using my own distro. Running a lxde with icewm as window manager. Everything is fine except i still can't find where that icon resides, even with your suggestions which i already did before :/ –  Jan 07 '14 at 00:59
  • OK. Is it an Ubuntu-based distro, e.g., Lubuntu? Because, if not, you are far more likely to get a useful answer at http://unix.stackexchange.com/ – K7AAY Jan 07 '14 at 01:03
  • Oh well, it's a debian based distro. Thank you i'll look there. –  Jan 07 '14 at 01:06
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Not a solution but this might give you a clue about what to search for:

http://www.micahcarrick.com/gtk-notebook-tabs-with-close-button.html

So it seems to be defined by the gtk theme, and the button image must be somewhere in the specific theme folder.

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