Help with changing icons please

[wivelden]

I have totally done away with Windows 11 due to all the crap that Microsoft is putting into it. I do like the look but wanted to try a linux distro and so I installed AnduinOS as I really like how it looks like Windows 11. Im very new to linux but wanting to learn. My question is how do I change the Home folder icon on the desktop and also the recycling bin icon.

[Anduin2017]

You may need gnome tweaks.

sudo apt install gnome-tweaks

You may find more icon packs here:

https://www.gnome-look.org/browse?cat=132&ord=latest

Wish you good luck!

[samwhelp]

@wivelden

There are many concepts to discuss about the issues you mentioned.

I have some ideas that I can write down to guide you in understanding these concepts.

I don't have time to write it down right now.

However, I'll first provide the following link for your reference, to give you a starting point for learning and exploring.

I've also included a tutorial I wrote in another discussion thread that's related to this topic.

Link

• Gtk Theming Guide / Creating Icon Theme (GitHub)
• Arch Wiki / icons
• Icon Theme Specification
• Icon Naming Specification
• Desktop Entry Specification

Start exploring

Regarding what you mentioned:

My question is how do I change the Home folder icon on the desktop and also the recycling bin icon.

You can start exploring from the following two places.

• view page Icon Naming Specification, and search user-home or user-trash
• Check folder /usr/share/icons

Check folder /usr/share/icons

• /usr/share/icons/Fluent/index.theme
• /usr/share/icons/Fluent/scalable/places/user-home.svg
• /usr/share/icons/Fluent/scalable/places/user-trash.svg
• /usr/share/icons/Fluent-dark/index.theme
• /usr/share/icons/Fluent-dark/scalable/places/user-home.svg
• /usr/share/icons/Fluent-dark/scalable/places/user-trash.svg

Icon Theme for Concept Learning: canta-icon-theme

Extra Link

• Arch Wiki / Cursor themes
• Arch Wiki / GTK
• Arch Wiki / Desktop entries

Explore Command Example

run

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme

show

'Fluent-dark'

run

cat /usr/share/icons/Fluent-dark/index.theme

run

file /usr/share/icons/Fluent-dark/scalable/places/user-home.svg

show

/usr/share/icons/Fluent-dark/scalable/places/user-home.svg: symbolic link to default-user-home.svg

run

file /usr/share/icons/Fluent-dark/scalable/places/default-user-home.svg

show

/usr/share/icons/Fluent-dark/scalable/places/default-user-home.svg: SVG Scalable Vector Graphics image, ASCII text, with very long lines (873)

run

file /usr/share/icons/Fluent-dark/scalable

show

/usr/share/icons/Fluent-dark/scalable: symbolic link to ../.Fluent-base/scalable

run

ls /usr/share/icons/.Fluent-base

show

16  22  24  256  32  scalable  symbolic

run

ls -al /usr/share/icons

show

total 13
drwxr-xr-x 38 root root 1125 Jan  3 10:54 .
drwxr-xr-x  1 root root  100 Jan  3 10:54 ..
drwxr-xr-x  9 root root  158 Jan  3 10:54 .Fluent-base
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root  119 Jan  3 10:54 .Fluent-dark-base
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root   69 Jan  3 10:54 .Fluent-light-base
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  162 Jan  3 10:49 Adwaita
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  311 Jan  3 10:54 Fluent
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root   49 Jan  3 10:54 Fluent-cursors
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  311 Jan  3 10:54 Fluent-dark
...

run

nautilus /usr/share/icons/

run

nautilus /usr/share/icons/Fluent-dark/scalable/places

run

ls -al /usr/share/icons/Fluent-dark/

show

total 1150
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root     311 Jan  3 10:54 .
drwxr-xr-x 38 root root    1125 Jan  3 10:54 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     103 Jan  3 10:54 16
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       2 Jan  3 10:54 16@2x -> 16
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       2 Jan  3 10:54 16@3x -> 16
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     122 Jan  3 10:54 22
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       2 Jan  3 10:54 22@2x -> 22
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       2 Jan  3 10:54 22@3x -> 22
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root      90 Jan  3 10:54 24
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       2 Jan  3 10:54 24@2x -> 24
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       2 Jan  3 10:54 24@3x -> 24
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      19 Jan  3 10:54 256 -> ../.Fluent-base/256
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      19 Jan  3 10:54 256@2x -> ../.Fluent-base/256
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      19 Jan  3 10:54 256@3x -> ../.Fluent-base/256
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root      77 Jan  3 10:54 32
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       2 Jan  3 10:54 32@2x -> 32
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       2 Jan  3 10:54 32@3x -> 32
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1168492 Jan  3 10:54 icon-theme.cache
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    8719 Jan  3 10:54 index.theme
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      24 Jan  3 10:54 scalable -> ../.Fluent-base/scalable
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      24 Jan  3 10:54 scalable@2x -> ../.Fluent-base/scalable
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      24 Jan  3 10:54 scalable@3x -> ../.Fluent-base/scalable
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      29 Jan  3 10:54 symbolic -> ../.Fluent-dark-base/symbolic

run

ls /usr/share/icons/Fluent-dark/scalable/places/user-trash*

show

/usr/share/icons/Fluent-dark/scalable/places/user-trash-dark.svg
/usr/share/icons/Fluent-dark/scalable/places/user-trash-full-dark.svg
/usr/share/icons/Fluent-dark/scalable/places/user-trash-full.svg
/usr/share/icons/Fluent-dark/scalable/places/user-trash.svg

The above is for reference only; the rest is up to you to conduct your own experiments and explorations.