Icon for custom menu not displaying

[mattghg]

Hi,

I decided to create a new menu under applications in the menu editor, so I did.

Having done that, I located the .directory file that I had created and added a line to it that I thought would provide an icon for the new menu:

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Icon=[absolute path to .png file]

However, although the new menu now appears, its icon does not, as you can see from this image (the new menu is called "Linguistics"):

menu.png

The strange thing is that when I go back to the menu editor, the icon *does* appear next to the menu, as you can see from this image:

edit-menu.png

Logging out and logging back in, restarting the machine etc. doesn't change any of this.

Any thoughts?

[ALF13]

It is easier than you think.

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If you change the location of the image (or name) that you just put as an icon in menu - you will see no image. So it has to be somewhere that you won't delete or change it. (Just an advice)

[mattghg]

When I do that the image that I wanted appears:

next-menu.png

Like I said above, the menu editor sees it. But that doesn't change the fact that the image doesn't appear when I click on the start menu, as I said in my previous post:

menu.png

[kyphi]

If you want a particular icon for this sub-menu, you will have to add it as superuser to the collection of icons for the theme you are using.

If you are using the "Mint-X" icon theme for example, the path would read "/usr/share/icons/Mint-X/categories/size/name_of_desired_icon", where "size" refers to 16,22,24,32,48 or 96.