How to change the logo?

[Hate9]

Look, ok, I've looked through the issues, and I get that there's been some controversy over whether or not to use the (objectively hideous) coral logo or the (actually really good) green logo, and I understand that it's not being changed again for the time-being.

That said, I was literally considering switching back to Atom (literally abandoned at this point) just to stop having to look at the coral icon, so in the mean-time, is there anything I can just drop-in to replace the coral icon with the green icon again on my end? Ideally without recompiling from scratch.

I'm on linux, for the record, in case anyone shares file paths or something.

[TheMemeSniper]

i'm not sure what DE you're using, but on KDE Plasma this is possible:

right-click VSCodium and click "Edit Application"

click the icon to open the icon selector

choose a replacement icon

[Hate9]

I can definitely do that, but it won't change any of the branding in the application.

[xfarrow]

Currently it's not possible to change the logo in the app itself. VSCodium developers sadly cannot use VS Code's original logo for copyright reasons. I think the most feasable option is to build VSCodium from ground up yourself to be able to change its logo.

[Hate9]

@xfarrow oh, to be clear, I do not mean the VSCode logo. I do not like that logo. I mean the green logo that this app apparently briefly had before some people complained, and it changed back to the hideous one we currently have.

[daiyam]

• https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/discussions/1429
• https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/discussions/1430

[GitMensch]

Maybe you want to use a "fork" of VSCodium for the sake of its icon, like https://github.com/zokugun/MrCode ?

[Alex313031]

@Hate9 Just interjecting because I use atom and vscodium and geany. I maintain forks of all three, though my geany and vscodium forks are nothing special. HOWEVER, my atom-ng fork is actually a continuation of atom, and I have updated quite a few things including the packages and node modules and electron version.

Site is here > https://thorium.rocks/atom-ng/ and repo (with releases for linux and windows) is here > https://github.com/Alex313031/atom-ng in case you wanted to try it.

[Hate9]

@Alex313031 oooh, I'll have to check that out

[Alex313031]

@Hate9 Also, see my vscodium fork that has the name changed to codium, and the logo changed to the vscode-oss logo > https://github.com/Alex313031/codium

[blizzardengle]

I would like the green logo back as well. I followed the logic in this repo but with the green logo/icons and it did not work on Windows. I even followed the comments from this issue and manually replaced all the files and still no luck. I made sure to clear the Windows icon cache as well.

Does anyone know how to get this working? Preferably on all operating systems, but in my case Windows 11. This zip folder all the icon changes that are needed, you should be able to extract this right into your local installation of VSCodium.

For reference I am using Windows 11 and installed VSCodium with winget which places the installation in AppData\Local\Programs not the traditional Programs directory.

This is the logo I am referring to if your new to the logo issue:

And this is what it would look like when you open VSCodium. This icon would also be used everywhere else the icon currently shows (title bar, icon tray, etc.):

[itkfm]

back in black now?

[BxDev]

Current logo and icon is scary me.

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[danielbayley]

@Hate9 @TheMemeSniper @xfarrow @GitMensch @Alex313031 @blizzardengle @itkfm @BxDev

[!NOTE] Check out my custom-app-icons extension!

I'm on linux

Although, it currently doesn’t support Linux… Maybe you could open an issue/PR with details of file paths/how to change on that platform…

[Hate9]

That's alright, I like the new-new one fine.

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@Hate9 Check out https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=danielbayley.custom-app-icons

I'm on linux

Oh, although it currently doesn’t support Linux… Maybe you could open an issue/PR with details of file paths/how to change on that platform…

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[GitMensch]

Maybe you could open an issue/PR with details of file paths/how to change on that platform…

Not 100% sure but I guess that's mostly (?) the PNG. Also have a look at one of the icon commits in related repos like https://github.com/zokugun/MrCode/commit/75591d69eed78175906a8147e811e9efd66b7ad5#diff-26818155e5ac01f0f6ec812647db3c1a7036b78e60e5d1f70da8ecc3eee4e363

[Vortigern-The-Grey]

Also interested in changing the icon. I'm using the .deb stable repo and I want to change to the no background icon. Do I just replace the .png in /usr/share/codium or do I need to do more?

[Vortigern-The-Grey]

Also interested in changing the icon. I'm using the .deb stable repo and I want to change to the no background icon. Do I just replace the .png in /usr/share/codium or do I need to do more?

nvm, replaced the .png and it all worked.

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