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How do I set the default title bar icon for X11 applications? The xterm on my machine is displaying an icon with a red x instead of the normal application-default icon. Changing themes in gnome doesn't help either.

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Do you want to change the icon for xterm alone or for all applications? – Gowtham Mar 27 '12 at 15:57
All applications – Alexander Stolz Mar 27 '12 at 16:09

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You could do this system-wide by changing the Icon value in the corresponding .desktop entry for xterm. These types of entries are usually located in /usr/share/applications. Look for the entry named something like xterm.desktop and set the Icon value to an image file located somewhere in /usr/share/icons i.e. Icon=my_xterm_icon.png. You might want to check if there is already some icons that you want to use there:

$ find /usr/share/icons -iname "*xterm*" -print

Apply this to all entries to have all X11 applications use the same icon.

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At least for the annoying XTerm icon, running the xterm command with an additional option: +ai should remove that icon...

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