How to change gnome main menu icon?

Question

I have tried quite a few things now. Nothing seems to work. The tutorial I found are outdated. And its hard to actually find out how gnome actually loads this icon. I have a special theme. I changed the icon in the theme package. Did not work. Open for any hints.

Answer 1

I achieved that using the tips mentioned in the Archlinux Wiki:

1. Download (filename is starthere.png)

2. Alternatively get the artwork package using "pacman -S archlinux-artwork", this puts all artwork in the /usr/share/archlinux directory, and resize your desired logo to 24x24px.

3. Figure out which icon set you're using (Right-click desktop -> Change Background Image -> Theme -> Customize -> Icon). For example, Crux, *GNOME, High Contrast, High Contrast Inverse, Mist, etc.

4. Now make a backup of your current gnome icon in the correct directory. In the example below, I'm using the GNOME icons but adjust the directory structure accordingly for your icon set:

   # mv /usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/places/start-here.png
        /usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/places/start-here.png-virgin
   

5. Copy starthere.png you just downloaded to the same directory renaming it start-here.png.

   # cp /path/to/starthere.png
        /usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/places/start-here.png
   

6. Restart your gnome-panels and the new Arch logo should be displayed:

   # pkill gnome-panel