How to change the start-here icon (Start Menu Icon) in Ubuntu

* Manually putting them into the directory
* Recreating the folder


You can go into the following directory:

/usr/share/icons/themename/24x24/places/start_here.png

Once you're in there make sure you open your icon and it's scaled for 24x24. One thing you probably should do is backup the old icon, copy it and put it in a folder. So once you've done that, remove the "start-here.png" file from the directory, then rename your new logo "start-here" and put it in the directory. After that, you want to run this command:

sudo gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/Human/

After you've done that, go into Terminal and run this command:

killall gnome-panel

The Gnome panel should disappear for a second and come back with your desired logo.

The simplest way to do it (and I forget which thread I read this in, but kudos to whomever suggested it first) is to create a folder in your home directory for the icon theme you use and then put your custom icon in there.

One of the more simpler ways to do this (and I forget which thread I read this in, but thanks to whoever suggested it) is to create a folder in your home directory for the icon theme you use and then put your custom icon that you want to use in there.

So an example would be, if you're using the Human theme create this directory:

/home/username/.icons/Human/scalable/places/distributor-logo.png

Then you can run this in Terminal:

killall gnome-panel

Then you should have your custom icon where the Ubuntu icon was.