I created some icons on my launcher using Google Chrome's "Add to desktop" tool. I would like to change the icon however.

Where are the corresponding .desktop files that represent my Google Chrome apps?

From there I imagine I can use the following instructions to change the icon: How to : Change an icon in 16.04

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Here is the easiest and fastest way.

Install Menu Editor:

sudo apt install menulibre

Open Menu Editor, Select App, Click on icon to select a new icon:

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Sorry for the really late delay, I hope you found a solution to this but if not I'm here to help!

I was recently trying to do the same thing and after some digging around I found the .desktop file located under ~/.local/share/applications. It had a name like chrome-randomestringhere-Default.desktop I was able to find which one it was by doing a quick grep in this directory for the name I saved the icon as.

grep -r DesktopIconName ~/.local/share/applications

After this you are correct that you can change the icon logo using the methods described in the link you provided.

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You can change icons from Chrome's Apps by:

1. Right click start menu and click config/setup
2. Go to Menu tab and click Open Menu Editor
3. Go to Chrome Apps, select the App you want to change icon and click property
4. Click in the icon image and there you will be prompted to select icon

My SO is in Portuguese, so I don't know the exact button names.

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