Install Kylin Icon Theme on Ubuntu 16.04. Kylin Icon Theme, inspired by the suru icon theme is a fabulous theme for Ubuntu 16.04 Systems. The Kylin theme is available to download and install on Ubuntu 16.04. (download link below).
Click to Install the Kylin Icon Theme on Ubuntu
NOTE: Installing Kylin icon theme also installs other Kylin-themed system UI tweaks such as Plymouth boot screen and GTK theme.
If you don’t want to install all these additional UI parts, install the Kylin icon theme manually. Download the icons, extract it, and place the ‘ubuntukylin-icon-theme’ folder in to ‘~/.icons’ folder in the home directory. Please note that /.icons folder is hidden. Press Ctrl+h to see all the hidden directories and files.
There are two ways to download and install themes in Ubuntu:
- Install Themes via PPA – Run terminal commands to install themes via PPA using Terminal commands
- Install Themes Manually – Download the custom theme file and install them manually
To use the downloaded Ubuntu theme:
- Extract or move the theme to usr/share//themes directory. For security reasons, Themes folder is restricted to use. Luckily, you can also create a folder in your Home directory (name it .theme) and extract the zip archive (downloaded theme) there.
- Use the theme via Ubuntu Tweak Tool. Open Ubuntu Tweak Tool and go to the Tweaks tab, and select the Theme option. Choose the theme you wish to use from the list.