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.

Papirus icon theme is available in six variants:

• Papirus (for Arc Darker)
• Papirus Dark (for Arc Dark)
• Papirus Light (for light theme and panel)
• Papirus Adapta (for Adapta)
• Papirus Adapta Nokto (for Adapta Nokto)
• ePapirus (for elementary OS and Pantheon Desktop)

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

or download .deb packages from here.

Debian and derivatives

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

sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/papirus-ppa.list << EOF
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/papirus/papirus/ubuntu xenial main
EOF

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com E58A9D36647CAE7F
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install papirus-icon-theme

Papirus Installer

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

NOTE: Use the same script to update icon themes.

ROOT directory (recommended)

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme/master/install-papirus-root.sh | sh

HOME directory for GTK

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme/master/install-papirus-home-gtk.sh | sh

HOME directory for KDE

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme/master/install-papirus-home-kde.sh | sh

NOTE: Qt4 apps require libqt4-svg to work correctly.

Remove

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme/master/remove-papirus.sh | sh

Unofficial packages

Packages in this section are not part of the official repositories. If you have a problem or a question, please contact the package maintainer.

Distro	Maintainer	Package
Arch Linux	Edgard Castro	papirus-icon-theme-git AUR
Arch Linux	Josip Ponjavic	papirus-icon-theme-git OBS [link]
Fedora	Dirk Davidis	papirus-icon-theme copr
Manjaro	Nikola Yanev	papirus-icon-theme
openSUSE	Konstantin Voinov	papirus-icon-theme OBS [link]
Solus	Joshua Strobl	sudo eopkg install 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 harcode-fixer. Papirus supports most of the applications in the list. If harcode-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.

NOTE: 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 24px (see for more info)
• Pantheon 24px

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:

NOTE: Currently, there is no easy way to change the global color of folders. You may edit the themes by yourself if you wish.

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

Caveats for using dolphin-folder-color

• The flags of the kdialog command used by the scripts varies by version. Some newer versions lack the --caption and --geometry flags. You may need to edit the script files manually so that they can be successfully run.
• Papirus icon theme does not have the same color set as the default Breeze theme, so one or two of the colors may not work.

Extras

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

Recommendations

• For GTK, better use icons alongside GTK theme Arc Themes or Adapta Themes
• For KDE, better use alongside Arc KDE or Adapta KDE

Manual fixes

For Cinnamon users

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

Also, increase panel size with Allow Cinnamon to scale panel text and icons according to the panel height option because Papirus contains only 22px and 24px panel's icons.

For GNOME 3 users

For Gnome users who want use Papirus icon theme with arc-theme, we recommend change icons color for panel:

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

Also, we recommend using AppIndicator/KStatusNotifierItem Support extension for appindicator-apps, because patched version of sni-qt for hardcode-tray doesn't work without that on gnome-shell.

To fix tiny icons size of the extension use the following command (details rgcjonas/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator#68):

sed -i.orig '/indicator, icon_size/a icon_size += 8;' ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/appindicatorsupport@rgcjonas.gmail.com/appIndicator.js

For Unity users

For Unity users, we recommend installing patched Notify-OSD and changing the icon size to 33px.

~/.notify-osd file:

slot-allocation = dynamic
bubble-expire-timeout = 10sec
bubble-vertical-gap = 10px
bubble-horizontal-gap = 10px
bubble-corner-radius = 24px
bubble-icon-size = 33px
bubble-gauge-size = 6px
bubble-width = 240px
bubble-background-color = 2f343f
bubble-background-opacity = 95%
text-margin-size = 10px
text-title-size = 100%
text-title-weight = bold
text-title-color = adb7bf
text-title-opacity = 100%
text-body-size = 90%
text-body-weight = normal
text-body-color = eaeaea
text-body-opacity = 100%
text-shadow-opacity = 50%
location = 1
bubble-prevent-fade = 1
bubble-close-on-click = 1
bubble-as-desktop-bg = 0

Also, you can change Unity launcher icon and unity-tweak-tool icons. Look into the extra folder in the icon theme.

For Xfce users

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

Icon request

• Application name
• Icon name (see desktop-file option Icon on /usr/share/applications)
• Original icon image

Contribute

We welcome user contributions. If you don't know where to start, we've compiled a list of things we would like to see in your pull request:

• new icons for missing applications
• symbolic links to an existing icon
• resolving open issues
• spelling, grammar, phrasing
• improvements to our scripts

Inside tools/work you will find a step-by-step guide, an environment, and tools that will help you:

• create a new icon from template
• make a symlink to an existing icon
• edit an existing icon
• convert your icon to all variants of the theme

We are waiting for your pull requests and would love to see this icon theme become as complete as possible.

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License

GNU LGPL v3.0