in ubuntu intrepid ibex 8.10 you must copy your icons to /usr/share/icons
maybe that's why in the very first post made back in 2004 they couldn't use them.
sudo nautilus from a terminal. So you can paste your icons in the folder.
greetings
in ubuntu intrepid ibex 8.10 you must copy your icons to /usr/share/icons
maybe that's why in the very first post made back in 2004 they couldn't use them.
sudo nautilus from a terminal. So you can paste your icons in the folder.
greetings
Last edited by Salvagluque; August 26th, 2009 at 04:49 PM.
It's weird, but, for some STRANGE reason, many of my icon packs only apply some of the icons.
For example, my nuoveXT-aero (or whatever it's called) icon pack only makes the .tar.gz icons vista-folder-like, not the actual folder icons themselves.
Any ideas as to why it's not working?
Let me know if I'm being too technical - or not technical enough!
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Great! I was trying to add my icons to the ~/share/icons folder. Banging my head against the wall I set out to find out why I could not access that folder: coming across this I remembered that you typically dont want to work under root (potential user created problems). Thanks to the OP and ubuntu-geek.
You may want to make sure there are icons for all the items: my $0.02.
Download the Icon theme tarball..
extract to /home/username/.icons
open termilnal
cd to /home/username/.icons
chmod +x Install
./Install
after Goto Syestem > Preferences > apearance > Themes>customize>icons to change to the new Icon theme.
Can you please not label a support question with HOWTO. This gives the impression that it's a howto.
Just my £0.02
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Two cents, two euros.... what's the difference?
Oh, and BTW, I just downloaded the "Linux Broken Vista" icon pack, and everything works fine.
I guess it's because the author put all the "scalable" icons in "extras," so I would have had to re-organize everything.
Not worth my $0.02.
Let me know if I'm being too technical - or not technical enough!
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I've been struggling with this a bit myself, but have finally got it figured out now, thanks to this thread.
I find it a bit silly that the Theme Manager doesn't correctly install the icons. If I choose to install the icons, through the Theme Manager, they do appear in the icons list, but they don't change anything once selected. However, if I install manually (as above), then they work fine (and look great!).
The other thing is that most of the icon sets that ship with Ubuntu 1.0.4 seem not to work. They all just appear as orange folders in the icons tab and don't change anything when selected.
Hi,
sort of the same problem in here...
I am not able to use the newly installed icon packs, at least not wholly.
I've downloaded a few icon packs from package manager and two manually. I am trying to use G-Flat SVG icon pack. It seems to work fine with navigation buttons both in Gnome and in programs such as Firefox. Yet, folder icons somehow fall back to default Gnome icon theme.
I've read a post in a blog which tells adding another folder in icon's directory named /places and editing index.theme respectively has solved the problem. I did it, it didn't worked. I copied the icon theme directory to /usr/share/icons, it was a desperate attempt and as I expected it also didn't work.
This is the index.theme file the icon theme uses:
Any idea will be appreciated.Code:# The Flat icon theme for GNOME # Flat icons that are the work of Danny Allen (danny@dannyallen.co.uk) have been used with permission from the author. # Original Flat icon conversion by Exdaix # Stock gnome icons, emblems, misc applications, and gnome specific enhancements added 12/05 by poptones # Versioning for this GNOME port does not explicitly follow the versioning of the original KDE icon set # as this set has become more completely gnome-centric and so does not include most kde applications. [Icon Theme] Name=G-Flat SVG 0.99 inherits=gnome Directories=scalable/apps,scalable/mimetypes,scalable/emblems,scalable/devices,scalable/stock,scalable/stock/media,scalable/stock/net,24x24/stock,24x24/stock/media,24x24/stock/net,scalable/places Example=gnome-theme-preview.svg [scalable/actions] MinSize=1 Size=48 MaxSize=256 Context=Actions Type=scalable [scalable/apps] MinSize=1 Size=48 MaxSize=256 Context=Applications Type=scalable [scalable/devices] MinSize=1 Size=48 MaxSize=256 Context=Devices Type=scalable [scalable/emblems] Size=72 Context=Emblems Type=Scalable [scalable/places] MinSize=1 Size=48 Maxsize=128 Context=Places Type=Scalable [scalable/mimetypes] MinSize=1 Size=48 MaxSize=128 Context=MimeTypes Type=Scalable [scalable/stock] MinSize=1 Size=48 MaxSize=128 Context=Stock Type=scalable [scalable/stock/net] MinSize=1 Size=48 MaxSize=128 Context=Stock Type=scalable [scalable/stock/media] MinSize=1 Size=48 MaxSize=128 Context=Stock Type=scalable [scalable/stock/navigation] MinSize=1 Size=48 MaxSize=128 Context=Stock Type=scalable [24x24/stock] MinSize=1 Size=128 MaxSize=24 Context=Stock Type=24x24 [24x24/stock/net] MinSize=1 Size=128 MaxSize=24 Context=Stock Type=24x24 [24x24/stock/media] MinSize=1 Size=128 MaxSize=24 Context=Stock Type=24x24 [24x24/stock/navigation] MinSize=1 Size=128 MaxSize=24 Context=Stock Type=24x24
edit: I just figured out, the index.theme is missing scalable/filetypes and the entry about it. I included them in the file on my computer. The existence or omission of it doesn't change the situation -though it may corrupting some other thing.
Last edited by lanetherif; June 3rd, 2010 at 01:43 PM.
Any ideas?
Select the theme and 'Customise', then select the icons tab. Choose the icon theme then save the theme that you have created.
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