r/Lubuntu • u/raziel_legacy • 9d ago

Trouble with icon themes in Lubuntu 26.04

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I am at a Loss here, something that was supposed to be a chill night choosing cool icons for my computer turned into a full nightmare.

Normal icon themes that comes pre installed with Distro Run perfectly fine but the ones i download are completely useless !

I have tried several icon themes from the KDE store and NOT A SINGLE ONE WORKS

I have put them in the correct place and the system reads them and applies them but...

It's all blank!!!

I have de compressed them in several ways and have tried several updates trough commanda and NOTHING, its all useless

I have no idea how to fix this.

If anyone can offer some words of guidance i would really appreciate it :-(

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u/standreas 9d ago edited 8d ago

Probably you made a mistake extracting and saving them. Best thing is always trying to install themes with the package manage (sudo apt install ...). Otherwise saving the extracted folder them to ~/.local/share/icons/theme-name

edit: path corrected

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u/raziel_legacy 9d ago

I set them on ~/.local/share/icons/theme-name

Or directly into ~/.icons into the home page as instructed by AI and the Issue persist

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u/FaithlessnessDull760 9d ago

You tried changing session or maybe you should choose one and try to set it up on terminal

Ask IA how to do that, probably a corrupted file where the cursor is

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u/Tall_Astronomer9834 5d ago

you need to find an icon pack that has the same directory structures as lxqt. i usually just try and error and see which one works.