Also can you state what icon theme you are using. To find this out go to the menu select prefrences and customize look and feel. If it says lubuntu which is the default icon theme for lubuntu then lxde icon theme is not the the right package.
If it says nuovext2.0 then lxde-icon-theme will be the correct pacakge. I just installed lxde-icon-theme which is an updated version of nuovext2.0 and it does look like python files. In the window that shows your icon theme if you change it does this problem go away. For me in utopic and the default lubuntu icon theme it changes to a python logo. ** Changed in: lxde-icon-theme (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to shared-mime-info in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1216788 Title: Files previously shown with a gear icon (like #!/usr/bin/python) are now shown as text files Status in “lxde-icon-theme” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “shared-mime-info” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I'm using Ubuntu 13.10 dev with shared-mime-info 1.1-0ubuntu4. For a few days after upgrading the system I have noticed that python-files aren't shown as executable files anymore. I have already opened a bug report on upstream for this: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68494 But I'm not sure if this is really a bug in shared-mime-info because after downgrading shared-mime-info, PCManFM and libfm to the versions from Ubuntu 13.04 (libfm-data, libfm-gtk-bin, libfm-gtk-data, libfm-gtk3, libfm3, pcmanfm, shared-mime-info) and rebooting the system the problem still exists. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxde-icon-theme/+bug/1216788/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp