Cinnamon 2.2.3 Icon Themes

thedoc85 · 2014-05-03 19:27:34

I've been trying to get a nice icon set to work with the latest version of cinnamon to no avail. The packs are either Faenza (http://tiheum.deviantart.com/art/Faenza-Icons-173323228) or Faience (http://tiheum.deviantart.com/art/Faienc … -255099649) and I have had no sucess with either.

I've tried extracting and installing both packs to the ~/.icons as well as the /usr/share/icons location and have seen them appear in cinnamon settings, but they just don't show up once I've selected one. I've tried other packs as well to see if I can get any others to work but so far the only one working is the default gnome icon set included with cinnamon.

Anyone have a solution?

ondoho · 2014-05-03 19:41:41

might be an issue with permissions on extracted files.

also you should take a look on how the files have been extracted, if the directory structure is right.

anyhow, both icon themes are in the repos (community) - why don't you install them from there?

thedoc85 · 2014-05-03 20:03:14

I've been looking through the structure of all the icon packs and none of them match the gnome one. the only ones that do match are the xfce packs, are they the ones I should be looking for? Also I'm not sure what sort of permission I need to assign an icon pack. Thanks for the help!

ondoho · 2014-05-04 07:30:05

ondoho wrote:

both icon themes are in the repos (community) - why don't you install them from there?

clfarron4 · 2014-05-04 08:46:48

ondoho wrote:

ondoho wrote:
both icon themes are in the repos (community) - why don't you install them from there?

To elaborate, they're packaged here all ready: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm … con-theme/ and https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm … con-theme/

So you just install them with sudo pacman -S <packagename>.

thedoc85 · 2014-05-04 17:54:33

I'm beginning to think Faenza is not compatible with cinnamon, I got Faience working but the icon packs are still not working. I've installed both via the repos and I'm applying the icon packs via System Settings> Themes > Other Settings but selecting anything other than gnome does nothing on the system. Does anyone know what sort of icon packs are compatible with cinnamon 2.0?

clfarron4 · 2014-05-04 20:45:31

Faenza is compatible with Cinnamon. I just installed it and loaded it.

Marshal Kilgore · 2014-05-04 20:48:40

I'm using Cinnamon with Faience/Faenza and assure you that they're "compatible," too. Please try

sudo chmod -R go+rX /usr/share/icons/{Faenza,Faience}

so we can rule out the permissions issue ondoho suggested.

Last edited by Marshal Kilgore (2014-05-04 20:51:04)

thedoc85 · 2014-05-04 22:59:11

Marshal Kilgore wrote:

I'm using Cinnamon with Faience/Faenza and assure you that they're "compatible," too. Please try
sudo chmod -R go+rX /usr/share/icons/{Faenza,Faience}
so we can rule out the permissions issue ondoho suggested.

Looks like its not a permission issue. Ran the code you provided but still haven't been able to change icon sets. I can't change them at all if that helps, its been stuck on the gnome icon set since I installed cinnamon. Thanks everyone for the suggestions and help so far.

ondoho · 2014-05-05 18:59:10

you did of course remove any previous attempts of manually installing the themes before you installed them with pacman?

if this were my problem, i'd open my file manager to /usr/share/icons and have a really good look at its contents, and try to deduce why gnome is working and not the others.

i just noticed that you haven't elaborated how exactly faenza and faience are "not working".
also having the same theme in 2 locations ($HOME and /usr/share) might or might not screw things up.

you do log out/in after each attempt? it's not always necessary but helps to eliminate a lot of potential error.

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