papirus-icon-theme

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Papirus is a free and open source SVG icon theme for Linux, based on Paper Icon Set with a lot of new icons and a few extras, like Hardcode-Tray support, KDE colorscheme support, Folder Color support, and others.

Android version available here.

Papirus icon theme is available in five variants:

• Papirus
• Papirus Dark
• Papirus Light
• ePapirus (for elementary OS and Pantheon Desktop only)
• ePapirus Dark (for elementary OS and Pantheon Desktop only)

Contents

• Installation
  • Ubuntu and derivatives
  • Debian and derivatives
  • Papirus Installer
  • Snap
  • Third-party packages
• Hardcoded icons
  • Hardcoded application icons
  • Hardcoded tray icons
  • Steam runtime icons
• KDE colorscheme
• Folder's color
• Extras
• Recommendations
• Manual fixes
• Icon request
• Contributing
• Donate
• License

Installation

Ubuntu and derivatives

You can install Papirus from our official PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:papirus/papirus
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install papirus-icon-theme  # Papirus, Papirus-Dark, and Papirus-Light
sudo apt-get install epapirus-icon-theme # ePapirus, and ePapirus-Dark for elementaryOS only

or download .deb packages from here.

[!NOTE] Now the daily builds of the papirus-icon-themes package are placed in ppa:papirus/papirus-dev.

Debian and derivatives

Debian users also can install Papirus from our PPA, but the commands will differ:

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/papirus/papirus/ubuntu jammy main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/papirus-ppa.list"
sudo wget -qO /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/papirus-ppa.asc 'https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9461999446FAF0DF770BFC9AE58A9D36647CAE7F'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install papirus-icon-theme

Papirus Installer

Use the script to install the latest version directly from this repo (independently of your distro).

You may use environment variables to control WHERE, WHAT, and FROM you install:

• DESTDIR - the destination directory for installing icon themes (Defaults DESTDIR=/usr/share/icons)
• EXTRA_THEMES - additional icon themes that you want to install alongside Papirus icon theme (Defaults EXTRA_THEMES="ePapirus ePapirus-Dark Papirus-Dark Papirus-Light")
• TAG - a branch or tag if you want to install a specific version of the icon theme (Defaults TAG=master)

[!IMPORTANT] Use the exact same command to update icon themes.

ROOT directory (recommended)

wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-install | sh

HOME directory for GTK

wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-install | env DESTDIR="$HOME/.icons" sh

HOME directory for KDE

wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-install | env DESTDIR="$HOME/.local/share/icons" sh

*BSD systems

wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-install | env DESTDIR="/usr/local/share/icons" sh

Uninstall

Use this interactive script to completely remove Papirus icon theme on your system.

wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-uninstall | sh

Snap

<a href="https://snapcraft.io/icon-theme-papirus"> <img alt="Get it from the Snap Store" src="https://snapcraft.io/static/images/badges/en/snap-store-black.svg" /> </a>

Third-party packages

Packages listed in this section are third-party packages. If you have a problem or a question, please contact the package maintainer.

Please note that some packages in the list may be outdated, open Repology to find out package versions.

Distro	Maintainer	Package
Alpine Linux	David Demelier	sudo apk add papirus-icon-theme <sup>[link]</sup>
ALT Linux	Andrey Cherepanov	apt-get install papirus-icon-theme <sup>[link]</sup>
Arch Linux	Felix Yan	sudo pacman -S papirus-icon-theme <sup>community</sup>
Arch Linux	Mark Wagie	papirus-icon-theme-git <sup>AUR</sup>
Debian 9+	Yangfl	sudo apt install papirus-icon-theme
Debian	only_vip	papirus-icon-theme <sup>MPR</sup>
Fedora 27+	Robert-André Mauchin	sudo dnf install papirus-icon-theme
FreeBSD	Hiroki Tagato	papirus-icon-theme <sup>freshports</sup>
Gentoo	Marco Scardovi	sudo emerge -a papirus-icon-theme
NixOS	Nixpkgs Contributors	nix-env -iA nixos.papirus-icon-theme
OpenBSD	David Demelier	doas pkg_add papirus-icon-theme
openSUSE	Matthias Eliasson	papirus-icon-theme <sup>official</sup>
ROSA Linux	Vladimir Penchikov	sudo urpmi papirus-icon-theme
Solus	Joshua Strobl	sudo eopkg it papirus-icon-theme
Ubuntu 18.04+	Yangfl	sudo apt install papirus-icon-theme
Void Linux	Giuseppe Fierro	sudo xbps-install -S papirus-icon-theme

[!NOTE] If you are a maintainer and want to be in the list, please create an issue or make a pull request.

Hardcoded icons

Some software uses an absolute path instead of the icon name in a .desktop file or in the source code which makes them unthemable.

Hardcoded application icons

To deal with hardcoded application icons we recommend using hardcode-fixer. Papirus supports most of the applications in the list. If hardcode-fixer doesn't support your favorite app yet, please open an issue here or edit your .desktop file manually.

Hardcoded tray icons

To fix hardcoded tray icons Papirus supports Hardcode-Tray script. A list of supported applications is available here.

[!IMPORTANT] To get Papirus to work right with Hardcode-Tray, use the hardcode-tray option --conversion-tool RSVGConvert:

sudo -E hardcode-tray --conversion-tool RSVGConvert --size 22 --theme Papirus

Size recommendations:

• Unity 22px
• KDE 22px
• GNOME 22px (see for more info)
• XFCE 22px (see for more info)
• Pantheon 24px
• Cinnamon 16px
• LXQt 16px

[!NOTE] Some Electron-based applications have blurred tray icon on KDE (see bug report). To solve this issue pass the following environment variable to the app: XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity wire-desktop

Steam runtime icons

To fix icons of running Steam games, you can use Steam Icons Fixer script, that will connect all icons available from our icon theme with your installed games.

KDE colorscheme

Support for monochrome icons for KDE colorscheme is now available:

• Papirus - for dark plasma theme & light color scheme
• Papirus Dark - for dark plasma theme & color scheme
• Papirus Light - for light plasma theme & color scheme

[!NOTE] Non-KDE apps don't support KDE colorscheme on the system tray, but you can replace color manually.

Folder's color

Papirus has Folder Color v0.0.80+ support that allows you to change a color of a folder.

Available colors:

For KDE, colors of individual folders can be changed using dolphin-folder-color.

Also, you can use our papirus-folders script to apply the color of folders system-wide.

Extras

• Papirus themes for FileZilla
• Papirus theme for SMPlayer
• Papirus themes for Claws Mail
• Papirus themes for Thunderbird
• Papirus theme for aMule

Recommendations

• Recommended use Papirus icons alongside one of the following GTK themes:
  • Arc theme
  • Materia theme
• For KDE, our recommendation is:
  • Arc KDE
  • Materia KDE

Manual fixes

<details> <summary>For Pop!_OS users</summary>

For Pop!_OS users who want to use the Pop!_Shop icon (instead of the default Elementary Appcentre icon):

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications/
cp /usr/share/applications/io.elementary.appcenter.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
desktop-file-edit --set-icon=pop-shop ~/.local/share/applications/io.elementary.appcenter.desktop

</details> <details> <summary>For Cinnamon users</summary>

For Cinnamon users who want to use Papirus icon theme with Arc theme we recommend fix color icons on panel:

sudo sed -i.orig 's/white/#d3dae3/g' /usr/share/themes/Arc-Dark/cinnamon/cinnamon.css

To deal with blurred panel icons, increase the panel size up to 30px in Systems Settings → Panel (see screenshot).

</details> <details> <summary>For GNOME Shell users</summary>

For GNOME users we recommend install the following extensions:

• (K)StatusNotifierItem/AppIndicator Support ¹ — This extension integrates AppIndicators.
• Dash to Dock ¹
• No Symbolic Icons
• Status Area Horizontal Spacing

¹ On Ubuntu 18.04+ it is pre-installed.

</details> <details> <summary>For Xfce users</summary>

Here are a few recommendations for Xfce users.

Thunar File Manager

Go to Edit → Preferences.... Click on Side Pane tab. Under Side Pane, look for Icon Size and set to Very Small.

Notification Area

Go to Settings Manager → Panel → Items tab. Select Notification Area item and click on Edit currently selected item button. Under Appearance set the following options:

• Set Maximum icon size (px) to 24
• Uncheck Show frame

</details> <details> <summary>For elementary/Pantheon users</summary>

With light wallpaper, we recommend disable use-transparency option on wingpanel:

gsettings set org.pantheon.desktop.wingpanel use-transparency false

For better representation we recommend use only light eGTK Theme:

echo "export GTK_THEME=elementary" >> ~/.profile

Restart System.

</details> <details> <summary>For LXQt users</summary>

Here are a few recommendations for LXQt users.

PCManFM-Qt File Manager

Go to Edit → Preferences. Click on Display section. On Icons category change size to 16x16 for Size of side pane icons.

Monochrome Panel Plugins

Configure Panel and set 16px for Icon size.

</details>

Icon request

• Application name
• Icon name (see desktop-file option