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papirus-icon-theme		numix-icon-theme
	Project
97	Mentions	4
6,318	Stars	766
2.0%	Growth	0.3%
9.8	Activity	5.7
4 days ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
Shell	Language
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

papirus-icon-theme

Posts with mentions or reviews of papirus-icon-theme. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-12.

Gnome Nautilus Folder color customization
3 projects | /r/archlinux | 12 Jul 2023

Use Papirus icons. Then you can use papirus folders. Papirus-folders is a bash script that allows changing the color of folders in Papirus icon theme and its forks. There are other icon themes which allow folder colour switches. Also there is no need for an extension, says the vanilla Gnome user 😉
Start menu icon
3 projects | /r/SolusProject | 5 Jul 2023

Other editions of Solus use Papirus icons (https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme/releases), and the Budgie project created its own menu icon recently: https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/blob/main/data/icons/actions/budgie-menu-symbolic.svg
Debian bookworm. Vimix theme with KDE
2 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 4 Jun 2023
Pop!_Shop Papirus Icon Update
3 projects | /r/pop_os | 4 Jun 2023

Direct link to the icon if you want to see it: https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme/blob/master/Papirus/64x64/apps/pop-shop.svg
[gnome] | Ubuntu 22.04 is my first linux distro and this is my second rice, how does this looks?
9 projects | /r/u_Top-Skirt4424 | 22 Jan 2023

GNU nano 6.2 redditcomment.txt + Wallpaper: nordic landscapes by wallpaperflare.com + Theme: Nord, github Nordic-darker-v40 + Shell theme: Nordic-darker-v40 + shell prompt: starship + starship configured with Nordic palette: nordic-starship-toml (github) + Icons: papirus, github + Dock: Nordic-darker-v40 + bashTop: github
Light brown icons
4 projects | /r/gnome | 26 Dec 2022

If you are unsure what to name the files, just check out /usr/share/icons/Adwaita and see what names it uses for the icons you wanna change. Or, if you wanna change more things - like application icons, etc - you can download a more robust icon theme like Papirus just to check the names it uses for what you wanna change.
No icon for Sublime text
1 project | /r/linuxmint | 14 Dec 2022
How to change icon for .py files in gnome/arch?
1 project | /r/gnome | 30 Nov 2022

An easier approach would be installing an icon theme like Papirus that already does it. 😉
How properly change Linux icons? Papirus icons not load every icons in my system.
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 8 Nov 2022

I working with icons, currently Papirus and I have two questions.
Tried customizing Pop as a noob!
2 projects | /r/pop_os | 6 Oct 2022

Icons:[Papirus](https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme)

numix-icon-theme

Posts with mentions or reviews of numix-icon-theme. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-05.

Learning linux with pop-os!
4 projects | /r/pop_os | 5 Oct 2022

Icons: Numix (Square)
Abysmal network performance on XPS 15
24 projects | /r/archlinux | 24 Aug 2022

 ~ λ paru [sudo] password for ken: :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date multilib is up to date error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mirrors.rit.edu : Resolving timed out after 10000 milliseconds error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from mirrors.rit.edu : Could not resolve host: mirrors.rit.edu warning: too many errors from mirrors.rit.edu, skipping for the remainder of this transaction error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from mirrors.rit.edu : Could not resolve host: mirrors.rit.edu error: failed retrieving file 'multilib.db' from mirrors.rit.edu : Could not resolve host: mirrors.rit.edu error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mirrors.rit.edu : Failed to connect to mirrors.rit.edu port 443 after 8720 ms: Connection timed out :: Starting full system upgrade... there is nothing to do :: Looking for AUR upgrades :: Looking for devel upgrades error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/tryone144/picom.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomoxify.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/phillbush/pmenu.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/themix-plugin-base16.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/GreenRaccoon23/archdroid-icon-theme.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/simmel/urxvt-resize-font.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/gnome-colors-icon-theme.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/khanhas/spicetify-cli.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/gusbemacbe/suru-plus.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/BetterDiscord/BetterDiscord.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/elkowar/eww error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/gusbemacbe/suru-plus-aspromauros.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/numixproject/numix-folders.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/numixproject/numix-icon-theme.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/nana-4/materia-theme.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox-gtk-theme.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/mpereira/tty-solitaire error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/will8211/unimatrix.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://gitlab.com/jallbrit/bonsai.sh.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/archdroid-icon-theme.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: git://github.com/schischi/xcwd :: Resolving dependencies... :: Calculating conflicts... :: Calculating inner conflicts... :: packages not in the AUR: electron15 kalarmcal python-magic-ahupp python2-appdirs python2-ordered-set python2-packaging python2-pyparsing python2-six steam-fonts :: marked out of date: dnstop python-gaphor python-swspotify :: orphans: electron14 gkill-bin ruby-hpricot ugene-bin Aur (12) 3dslicer-bin-5.0.3-2 czkawka-gui-bin-5.0.1-1 ignition-transport-8-8.2.0-2 gazebo-11.11.0-2 lazydocker-0.18.1-1 nvim-packer-git-r522.90b323b-1 paru-1.11.1-1 python-mpv-1.0.1-1 tuner-1.5.1-2 ventoy-bin-1.0.79-3 zoom-5.11.9-1 zotero-6.0.13-1
Xfce hidpi icon problem (most icons are blurry)
1 project | /r/xfce | 17 Jan 2022

For system icons (folder, filetype, toolbar, menu, panel icons) you will need an icon theme that used SVG icons and supports HiDPI. Icon themes that support HiDPI will have@2x folders inside of them. Numix is a good example of this.
Linux mint xfce
2 projects | /r/linuxmint | 25 Jul 2021

Icon pack is numix circle. get it from here : https://github.com/numixproject/numix-icon-theme

What are some alternatives?

When comparing papirus-icon-theme and numix-icon-theme you can also consider the following projects:

powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme

gtk - 🧛🏻‍♂️ Dark theme for GTK

Nordic - :snowflake: Dark Gtk3.20+ theme created using the awesome Nord color pallete.

adwaita-plus - GNOME++, a third-party icons theme, based on new GNOME 3.32's Adwaita

papirus-folders - a script that lets you change the colors of folders in Papirus icon theme

flat-remix - Flat Remix is an icon theme inspired by material design. It is mostly flat using a colorful palette with some shadows, highlights, and gradients for some depth.

oomox-gtk-theme - Oomox-gtk-theme is a fork of Numix-gtk-theme with slightly different visual design choices and more customization capabilities. It can be used in Themix/Oomox app.

gruvbox - Retro groove color scheme for Vim

material-design-icons - Material Design icons by Google (Material Symbols)

Matcha-gtk-theme - Matcha is a flat Design theme for GTK 3, GTK 2 and Gnome-Shell

themix-plugin-base16 - Plugin for import/export to Themix/Oomox and a static mirror of Base16 project themes (https://github.com/chriskempson/base16)