This can potentially be annoying as icons change back to defaults if you update the app or simply because it is a pretty tedious process. This process can potentially be automated by using a script to replace the icons. Using the following command fileicon set The Process The easier wayīy using the ‘fileicon’ utility by Michael Klement we can pretty much change icons for any file or folder on macOS. Here’s an example script, written using the fileicon utility 1 Or remove the set icon using fileicon remove įileicon can be installed using brew, make sure you have the command line tools installed. #!/bin/bash icon_path = $1 app_path = "/Applications/ $2. Saving the above as replace.sh and calling. Replace.sh desktop/iconreplacement.icns Spotifyįileicon is capable of assigning any image format macOS is capable of reading to most files and folders, I would recommend using fileicon for most scripting projects. I recommend going with the previously mentioned method unless you know what you’re doing.Īpplications on macOS function like folders, you can right-click on a folder and select ‘show package contents’ to browse the contents of an app. In the contents directory of an application, we should find a file called ‘ist’, inside the mentioned plist file we’re looking for three entries Icon that shows up in dock and Launchpad. Icon that shows up in the dock and Launchpad when dark mode is enabled. Icon that shows up when on a file that can be showed up in the said application. As a caution, often applications can support opening a lot of different kinds of formats, which leads to dealing with a lot of different icons or just convoluted code. The icon files specified in the Contents/Resources directory. It’s relatively easy to write code to replace the icons.Īfter replacing the icons specified by the plist, we’ll need to refresh the icon cache. There are numerous ways to execute this as discussed in a Github Gist by Fabio Fernandesthread with a discussion about their drawbacks. I’ve found the easiest way to achieve this is by simply touching the application, and restarting Finder and Dock. Search for "macintosh classic" (without the quotes) double click on the Macintosh Classic B&W theme and click Apply.Uncheck Menu Image and Desktop, and click Apply.You will be prompted to log out to apply your changes.How do I undo my changes (revert to defaults)? To revert back to the default icons, open LiteIcon, select the Tools drop-down menu, and click Restore All System Icons.(Desktop background-no explanation needed).To restore the default windows theme, simply open Flavours and click the on/off toggle at the top right of the window.Chrome, and potentially some other strange programs, use their own custom window borders, and thus their windows look.funky with the theme.Step 3: Search for LiteIcon in the /Applications folder, then drag its icon to the Trash icon located at the end of the Dock, and drop it there. I've kind of learned to deal with it, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't annoy me. Also, you can right-click/control click LiteIcon icon and then choose Move to Trash option from the sub menu. Step 4: If prompted, enter administrator password and hit OK to allow the change. The classic stripe look you see in the screenshots is achieved in part by placing a white rectangle in the middle of the window.Unfortunately, there's no way to resize this rectangle to fit the window text, so I picked a size of roughly half of the window width to try to work for about 99% of the use cases. Occasionally though, you may have a window with a really long title that simply can't fit in that white box. To accommodate this, I've set the opacity of the title bar stripes to 50% so that you can still read the whole title. There are some inconsistencies between the icons (e.g.īut yes, it will be annoying if/when you come across a long title (hopefully rarely).some circles are drawn slightly different than others). I wasn't as careful as I should've been, but if anyone has any serious interest in using the icons, I'd be more than happy to clean them up for you. Again, I'd be lying if I said this didn't bother me.
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