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.
Android version available here.
Papirus icon theme is available in five variants:
- Papirus
- Papirus Dark
- Papirus Light
- ePapirus (for elementary OS and Pantheon Desktop only)
- ePapirus Dark (for elementary OS and Pantheon Desktop only)
Contents
- Installation
- Hardcoded icons
- KDE colorscheme
- Folder's color
- Extras
- Recommendations
- Manual fixes
- Icon request
- Contributing
- Donate
- License
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 # Papirus, Papirus-Dark, and Papirus-Light
sudo apt-get install epapirus-icon-theme # ePapirus, and ePapirus-Dark for elementaryOS only
or download .deb packages from here.
Note
Now the daily builds of the papirus-icon-themes package are placed in ppa:papirus/papirus-dev
.
Debian and derivatives
Debian users also can install Papirus from our PPA, but the commands will differ:
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/papirus/papirus/ubuntu jammy main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/papirus-ppa.list"
sudo wget -qO /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/papirus-ppa.asc 'https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9461999446FAF0DF770BFC9AE58A9D36647CAE7F'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install papirus-icon-theme
Papirus Installer
Use the script to install the latest version directly from this repo (independently of your distro).
You may use environment variables to control WHERE, WHAT, and FROM you install:
DESTDIR
- the destination directory for installing icon themes (DefaultsDESTDIR=/usr/share/icons
)EXTRA_THEMES
- additional icon themes that you want to install alongside Papirus icon theme (DefaultsEXTRA_THEMES="ePapirus ePapirus-Dark Papirus-Dark Papirus-Light"
)TAG
- a branch or tag if you want to install a specific version of the icon theme (DefaultsTAG=master
)
Important
Use the exact same command to update icon themes.
ROOT directory (recommended)
wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-install | sh
HOME directory for GTK
wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-install | DESTDIR="$HOME/.icons" sh
HOME directory for KDE
wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-install | DESTDIR="$HOME/.local/share/icons" sh
*BSD systems
wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-install | env DESTDIR="/usr/local/share/icons" sh
Uninstall
Use this interactive script to completely remove Papirus icon theme on your system.
wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-uninstall | sh
Snap
Third-party packages
Packages listed in this section are third-party packages. If you have a problem or a question, please contact the package maintainer.
Please note that some packages in the list may be outdated, open Repology to find out package versions.
Distro | Maintainer | Package |
---|---|---|
Alpine Linux | David Demelier | sudo apk add papirus-icon-theme [link] |
ALT Linux | Andrey Cherepanov | apt-get install papirus-icon-theme [link] |
Arch Linux | Felix Yan | sudo pacman -S papirus-icon-theme community |
Arch Linux | Mark Wagie | papirus-icon-theme-git AUR |
Debian 9+ | Yangfl | sudo apt install papirus-icon-theme |
Debian | only_vip | papirus-icon-theme MPR |
Fedora 27+ | Robert-André Mauchin | sudo dnf install papirus-icon-theme |
FreeBSD | Hiroki Tagato | papirus-icon-theme freshports |
Gentoo | Marco Scardovi | sudo emerge -a papirus-icon-theme |
NixOS | Nixpkgs Contributors | nix-env -iA nixos.papirus-icon-theme |
OpenBSD | David Demelier | doas pkg_add papirus-icon-theme |
openSUSE | Matthias Eliasson | papirus-icon-theme official |
ROSA Linux | Vladimir Penchikov | sudo urpmi papirus-icon-theme |
Solus | Joshua Strobl | sudo eopkg it papirus-icon-theme |
Ubuntu 18.04+ | Yangfl | sudo apt install papirus-icon-theme |
Void Linux | Giuseppe Fierro | sudo xbps-install -S 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 hardcode-fixer. Papirus supports most of the applications in the list. If hardcode-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.
Important
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 22px (see for more info)
- Pantheon 24px
- Cinnamon 16px
- LXQt 16px
Note
Some Electron-based applications have blurred tray icon on KDE (see bug report). To solve this issue pass the following environment variable to the app: XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity wire-desktop
Steam runtime icons
To fix icons of running Steam games, you can use Steam Icons Fixer script, that will connect all icons available from our icon theme with your installed games.
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:
For KDE, colors of individual folders can be changed using dolphin-folder-color.
Also, you can use our papirus-folders script to apply the color of folders system-wide.
Extras
- Papirus themes for FileZilla
- Papirus theme for SMPlayer
- Papirus themes for Claws Mail
- Papirus themes for Thunderbird
- Papirus theme for aMule
Recommendations
- Recommended use Papirus icons alongside one of the following GTK themes:
- For KDE, our recommendation is:
Manual fixes
For Pop!_OS users
For Pop!_OS users who want to use the Pop!_Shop icon (instead of the default Elementary Appcentre icon):
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications/
cp /usr/share/applications/io.elementary.appcenter.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
desktop-file-edit --set-icon=pop-shop ~/.local/share/applications/io.elementary.appcenter.desktop
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
To deal with blurred panel icons, increase the panel size up to 30px in Systems Settings
→ Panel
(see screenshot).
For GNOME Shell users
For GNOME users we recommend install the following extensions:
- (K)StatusNotifierItem/AppIndicator Support ¹ — This extension integrates AppIndicators.
- Dash to Dock ¹
- No Symbolic Icons
- Status Area Horizontal Spacing
¹ On Ubuntu 18.04+ it is pre-installed.
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)
to24
- Uncheck
Show frame
For elementary/Pantheon users
With light wallpaper, we recommend disable use-transparency
option on wingpanel:
gsettings set org.pantheon.desktop.wingpanel use-transparency false
For better representation we recommend use only light eGTK Theme:
echo "export GTK_THEME=elementary" >> ~/.profile
Restart System.
For LXQt users
Here are a few recommendations for LXQt users.
PCManFM-Qt File Manager
Go to Edit
→ Preferences
. Click on Display
section. On Icons
category change size to 16x16
for Size of side pane icons
.
Monochrome Panel Plugins
Configure Panel
and set 16px
for Icon size
.
Icon request
- Application name
- Icon name (see desktop-file option Icon on
/usr/share/applications
) - Original icon image
- Use tray? Tray icon name. Hardcoded?
- Small description and/or a link to the official webpage
Warning
We do NOT support Windows/Wine/Proton/Crossover or other NOT native Linux-apps & games. This also applies to discontinued projects!!
Contributing
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.
Donate
If you would like to support development by making one-time donation or by becoming a supporter, please visit our page on Buy Me a Coffee and Liberapay.
License
Papirus icon theme is free and open source project distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3. See the LICENSE
file for details.
Every logo in this icon theme is owned by the respective trademark holder. We have not received approval to create these logos from any of the trademark owners, and the existence of an icon in this repository is in no way supported by the trademark owner.
Where possible, we stayed true to the branding and official guidelines.
If you are a trademark holder or application owner for one of these applications and disapprove of the icons we've created for your application, please submit an issue to this repository.