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FYI (and for the README?): getting Mint Cinnamon to recognise themes

Open LinuxOnTheDesktop opened this issue 9 months ago • 3 comments

I tried

./install.sh -a -d ~/.themes

The files appeared but Mint's Settings (Settings -> Themes) did not show any new theme, even after (as per here) closing-and-then-re-opening the Themes window.

sudo ./install.sh -a -d /usr/share/themes

produced the same result, i.e., files but no option to use the theme. Not also that this latter command does need sudo.

But using /usr/share/icons works (though it also - I think - needs sudo).

Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon

LinuxOnTheDesktop avatar Feb 18 '25 04:02 LinuxOnTheDesktop

Man, this is a icon theme, why install it in themes folder ?

vinceliuice avatar Feb 21 '25 12:02 vinceliuice

It is not obvious that an icon theme should not go in the themes directory. But I gather that directory called 'themes' is reserved for non-icon themes.

LinuxOnTheDesktop avatar Feb 21 '25 12:02 LinuxOnTheDesktop

It seems to me that the README needs the following two changes.

  1. It should specify that (at least on many Linux distributions?) the standard directory to install to is /usr/share/icons.

  2. Specify that installing to /usr/share/icons needs super-user privileges.

LinuxOnTheDesktop avatar Feb 21 '25 13:02 LinuxOnTheDesktop