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I've been a huge fan of LXDE , Lubuntu and OpenBox for several years now.

But there has been one things that has bugged me.

When you open a window that does not have it's own dedicated icon (firefox, abiword etc) it shows this icon (shown below) , it's roughly the same icon that shows up when a Microsoft Windows application/window locks up and "stops responding" and is generally not to my taste.

How can I change this? I don't mind if it simply means over-writing .png files etc.



Link to same image: http://s30.postimg.org/eu8hqppf5/Open_Box_Icon.png


Cheers , Andrew

Welcome to the LXDE forum. Not exactly sure what you want to do but I can give you a starting point.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Theming#Icons

Thanks for that I am pretty familiar with LXDE / Lubuntu , and after hours of research I'm fairly sure there's no simple , user friendly , GUI , answer to the question I'm asking.

If I could track down that specific icon file(s) in question (in it's actual folder) and replace them with the one(s) I want that should do the trick.

I found identical icons in /usr/share/pixmaps/ named openbox.png and openbox.xpm but that did not work.

I believe that the file for icons (for the entire system) is located in /usr/share/icons

Edit:
I found this thread from the Ubuntu Forums which has been marked solved. It may be of use to you.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2037027

Sorry. It didn't take.

Thanks for the reply , in what folder , the only folders shown in mine (hidden files are viewable) are icon theme packs.

Which theme are you using? I believe that would be the one you have to edit. In the example that I gave you in my previous post it was user/share/icons/hicolor/apps/ (whatever size you want to chage).

my suggestion was to try to change /usr/share/pixmaps/openbox.png, but it seems you tried variations of that already?
it says here that you should look in
/usr/share/icons/<current-theme>
/usr/share/app-install/
/usr/share/app-install/icons/
/usr/share/pixmaps

(however i'm not sure what to look for - it could be some sort of "unknown-application" or "default" icon.
my personal experience is that icon themes vary hugely in which icons they offer.)<=not ob-specific

i think openbox (and that would be only the window decorations, and openbox' own menus, which you can't even access on a default lubuntu install) falls back to that default icon only if it cannot find anything matching, and i think there's nothing you can do about it, i.e. its practically hardcoded.

the only thing you can do is to always provide openbox with an icon.
- either by checking each applications .desktop file and
- - either change its icon to one that exists in /usr/share/pixmaps or your current theme
- - or add an icon of that same name to /usr/share/pixmaps
- or use a utility like xseticon, please see here.