Bored with the same old look of Ubuntu? Why not try one of the best Ubuntu themes listed here? Icon themes are the best and perhaps the easiest way to change the looks of your Ubuntu desktop. It literally transforms the entire look of your desktop. If you don’t know where to begin, don’t worry. In this article, I’ll show you the best icon sets for Ubuntu and how to use them. I have written this article keeping Ubuntu in mind but almost all the icon themes should be available for other Linux distributions and desktop environments as well.

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How to install new icon theme in Ubuntu Before we see our list of best icon themes for Ubuntu, let’s first see how to change the icons in Ubuntu. I have already written in detail about. The steps are same here. There are basically two ways you can install icon themes in Ubuntu: • Downloading the theme manually and extracting them in ~/.icons (if you don’t have this directory, create it) • Installing the themes via a PPA (run some commands, we’ll see it later) Once you have installed the icons, you can and to change the icons.

Ubuntu 18.04 users can refer to this video to see how to change icons and themes: Best icon themes for Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04 and other Linux distributions Okay! Enough talks. Let’s see the list of best icon themes for Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04. The countdown begins!! Oranchelo icon theme Flat and fresh. Is a colorful theme with support for a number of icons. It has some variants as well that provide different color accents to the Nautilus folder icons.

In Ubuntu based distributions, you can use the official PPA to install this theme: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oranchelo/oranchelo-icon-theme sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oranchelo-icon-theme 17. Vibrancy Colors icon theme is a modern and clean icon theme. It is composed of beautifully rounded icons with flat touch. There are a number of variants of this icon theme that give you more option in customizing the looks of your system.

You can install Vibrancy Colors icon theme using its official PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ravefinity-project/ppa sudo apt update sudo apt install vibrancy-colors 16. Masalla icon theme Masalla icon theme is flat themes with vivid colors. Take a look at this beautiful icon theme.

You can download the.deb file for: 15. Obsidian icon theme Obsidian is based on once hugely popular icon theme. But it’s been years since Faenza has not been updated. And thus comes Obsidian in the picture to continue the legacy of Faenza icon theme. It also has an accompanying GTK theme. You can easily install Obsidian icon theme using this PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/icons sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install obsidian-1-icons 14.