![]() ![]() Once we’re in the canta icon pack, we need to open up the index.theme file with a text editor (as before, depending on where it is installed, you may or may not need sudo).Ī few lines from the bottom you will see a “Inherits=”. However, I have the Flat Remix pack installed, I’ll make it instead inherit from that.Īs before, we need to go into the icon pack folder. One of my favorite Gnome themes, Canta, comes with its own icon pack that replaces folders but inherits the rest from Numix icon pack, but since I haven’t installed Numix, it defaults to the system default. These often use inheritance to fill the void, however you may not always like the set from which they inherit the remainder, or you may simply prefer if it inherited from a different set. However this is not the only way to patch icon sets, some icon sets are designed to only replace a small amount of icons, such as folders. Now all we need to do is toggle the icons, simply switch to the system default icon set and then switch back and the correct icons will show.Īs you can see, the desired icon is now set for Icecat Ln -s firefox-nightly-icon.svg icecat.svg To fix this we need to either change the app’s icon name or create symbolic links to the current icon name, the latter generally being the better option.įirst we need to find the current icon name, for all common (and probably for the uncommon ones as well) Linux desktop environments the way to do this is: So why is that?Įach program has an icon name, and while many programs keep a consistent icon name across distros, this is not always the case, such as with some of the default Gnome apps in Fedora vs Ubuntu. Lately I’ve been using Fedora 28 and while some icons work liked they’re supposed to, others, which work in Ubuntu, do not. Take for example my all time favorite icon pack, Oranchelo, it is geared mainly towards Ubuntu. However many of the smaller icon packs either only support certain distros or lack icons for lesser known programs. First a little background, if you use one of the more popular icon packs, you’ll likely have no issues. So, now onto something less commonly covered, patching icon sets (no coding or art skills required). ![]() As for obtaining icon packs, a great site is, which among other things hosts a wide variety of free to use icon packs. Now I could go over how to install icons packs, however there are countless sites who already explain the process very well, such as Tips on Ubuntu. For those unfamiliar, it is similar to how icons change across Android versions, even though the apps themselves are often the same. A key area of that customization are app icons. One of the nice advantages of using Linux is the wealth of customization options available. How to rebuild a package using the Arch Linux Build System How to work with. At the moment there are no pre-compiled packages for a Debian so we are going to do this nicely from command line by compiling GNU IceCat 5 from a sources code. This article is republished here for archival purposes, the original can still be found here. This guide describes step-by-step installation of GNU/IceCat web browser on Debian 6.0 Squeeze. Since then the blog has been discontinued. This article was originally written by me for UMass IT Techbytes Blog. ![]()
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