Subj : Tastes Like Windows
To   : Ky Moffet
From : Barry Martin
Date : Sat May 23 2020 07:39:00


Hi Ky!

Kurious Kitty work up and started purring aorund...


 >   KM> Unfortunately Oxygen is now deprecated so there went some of the
 >   KM> last colorful, easy-to-ID icons.
 > I presume you tried to copy them over to a new system?  May have to
 > convert the format (VLC can convert many video formats, haven't tried
 > 'single frame' formats).
 KM> I haven't figured out where linux keeps its icons, let alone how
 KM> to manipulate 'em... but I get the impression the main icon file
 KM> is monolithic, and I've heard contains over 6,000 icons. And I
 KM> can tell you from experience, if you use a theme that's
 KM> deprecated, you'll have blank spaces where you expected to see an
 KM> icon. Fortunately the one I ended up using is only missing one
 KM> icon, for a fairly new utility. I can browse files and change
 KM> icons for the desktop or taskbar, but hell if I can figure out
 KM> how to do that for system tray... those seem to use the
 KM> monolithic icon doohickey.

> Well I'll admit to never having tried to change an icon in Linux.  The
> answer is probably buried somewhere in the Google Hits;

That was the wake up!  I'll presume you've seen these but here goes 
anyway; the last one is probably closer to what you need"


  
Icon Storage Locations


The .desktop link files are stored in /usr/share/applications for 
software installed for all users, and $HOME/.local/share/applications 
for things you have installed only for yourself.
The actual icon (image) files are a bit more scattered (since a .desktop
file can specify their absolute path), but /usr/share/pixmaps and 
/usr/share/icons contain a good fraction of them. (icons at 
 $prefix/share/icons/ with required fall-back version in hicolor theme 
  can be loaded without the full path, thus such as Icon=video-display 
  where $prefix can be /usr, /usr/local or ~/.local; See specification 
  at freedesktop.org: Icon Theme Specification )
  
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Run this command ls /usr/share/icons on your system and post the output 
in your question. That is the least information I need before posting 
any answer.

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How do I install icons on Ubuntu?

To install an icon theme, you must instead create a ƒ?o. iconsƒ?? folder
in your main home folder, and then place the theme file in there. In 
other words, Application themes (GTK themes) go in . themes, while icon 
themes go in .Jul 5, 2018
How to Install Desktop Themes on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
://www.howtogeek.com/358049/how-to-install-desktop-themes-on-ubuntu-18.0
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How do I change icons in Ubuntu?
Icon packs in repository
There will be several themes listed. Right-click and mark the ones you 
like for installation. Click "Apply" and wait for them to install. Go to
System->Preferences->Appearance->Customize->Icons and select the one you
like.Mar 21, 2014
Icons - Community Help Wiki - Ubuntu Documentation
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Icons
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