The Faenza icon theme for Gnome provides monochromatic icons for panels, toolbars and buttons and colourful squared icons for devices, applications, folder, files and Gnome menu items. Four themes are included to fit with light or dark themes/panels.
To add the PPA and install the Faenza icons open a terminal window (press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy+paste the following lines:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install faenza-icon-theme
When installed you can close the terminal window and to change the icons press the SuperKey and type: advanced settings. Then click on Theme and change the Icon theme to Faenza.
If you don’t have the gnome tweak tool (advanced settings) installed, open a terminal window and copy+paste the following line:
sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool
There’s a missing step (step 2) :
1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install faenza-icon-theme
You are right step 2 is missing, thanks for the notice and i added the code to the article.
This doesn’t work under Gnome-Shell in Ubuntu 12.04. I’ve tried switching to the icon theme and even restart Gnome-Shell and also logged on and off. Nothing changes.
Sorry for the late reply. I never tested this on Gnome because i only use Ubuntu.
I tried the first two codes and it worked but the third code did not work. It gave me the following feedback in the terminal ” E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock – open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it? ”
Please help me with a code to install the faenza icons.
Thanks
The error report: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock – open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) One of the reason could be that the files are not available for for download because the packages are updated. The error report: E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it? Can be caused by having another process open such as update manager, synaptic package manager and/or the Ubuntu Software Center. The solution is to keep on trying to add the ppa and install the icons. Sometimes it helps to wait untill the next day and most of the times… Read more »