2008-03-21

A TrueCrypt Icon for Ubuntu.

by Anoop Engineer 20 comments




TrueCypt installer for Ubuntu sucks. What good is an installer which doesn't add a shortcut to the Gnome/KDE menus?
Well, we have covered the TrueCrypt experience in Ubuntu earlier. In the end we asked our readers to manually add a shortcut to "/usr/bin/truecrypt". To our horror we found that there is no png files installed, to set as an icon for the shortcut. And what good is a shortcut without an icon? :)
So I broke open the Windows TrueCrypt binary, extracted the icon and converted it into png.
Here it is.


Happy Encrypting.

Comments 20 comments
Anonymous said...

Thanks!

Anonymous said...

Thanks ! Very useful.

Anonymous said...

that was nearly what I was searching for ... thanks

at work my WinXP desktop shows me not a blue icon but a brown/orange one

got the icon changed?
or are there 2 possible icons?
If it's possible, please publish the brown/orange icon as well.
Thanks.

Clemente said...

Many thanks from me, too!

Anonymous said...

I don't recommend to use Truecrypt for linux. It is buggy and i had problems with it in SuSe 10 and Ununtu Gytsy. It hangs when copying large files to/from encrypted partition.

Better use dm-crypt

Anonymous said...

Truecrypt is not buggy on Linux, it's a Linux-kernel buy, you need to use Linux-kernel 2.6.24 or newer.
I got a warning-message from Truecrypt on Ubuntu Gutsy about this, but now i've used it with Ubuntu Hardy, and it works fine (i've tested FAT and Ext3-partitions inside Truecrypt).

Anonymous said...

Thank you!

Anonymous said...

Thanks!!!

Michał said...

can you upload with .svg entension?

Anonymous said...

You are hero!!!
Danke schön

toby said...

thanks, i really wish truecrypt would get added to ubuntu repository to do away with this silliness, perhaps it's a license issue? anyhoo, this is just what i was looking for, thanks for sharing...

Salutis said...

Thanks.

Anonymous said...

thanks

Slim Shady said...

Thanks a lot Lancelot!

Anonymous said...

Thank you very much, I was planning to get a Windows installation and get the icon from there :)

someone from Mexico.

Snapcount said...
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Anonymous said...

A lot of people who use Truecrypt would not want to advertise the fact that it is there by putting an icon on the desktop?

Anonymous said...

And Truecrypt can be run in Traveller Mode from an external device (like USB stick) removing all traces of it's presence from a host machine.

Hiding data needs defence in depth, otherwise you are just playing at it.

LoadBalancer said...

Thanks a lot!!

Anonymous said...

Thanks, but svg will be better

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