Faience Moon Icons for Elementary OS Luna

Kevin FranÃ§ois Bile Ebelle January 11, 2013

Contents

1Installation instructions
1.1Blue:
1.2Cheese:
1.3Download Blue | Download Cheese

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This icon theme is a custom version of the very popular Faience icon set, the difference is that Faience Moon has been created to fit into the Elementary OS Luna desktop (panel, default apps and other icons). It comes in two variants, the ‘Blue’ version which matches the same shades as the default Elementary OS icon set and also a ‘Cheese’ version which is more like the original Faience icon set.

This set is beautifully crafted to give your Elementary OS Luna desktop a unique look. It works extremely well, especially if you are a fan of the Faience or Faenza icon sets, take a look at the screenshot below:

Faience Moon for elementary OS Luna

Installation instructions

Download the icon theme using the links at the bottom of this article. Then, open up a Terminal window (Search for it in the “Apps” menu, or press “Ctrl+Alt+T”), type the following command on it and press Enter key:

gksu pantheon-files

This will then open up the Pantheon File browser with root access. All you need to do then is navigate to /usr/share/icons and extract the icon theme there.

After doing that, you should close the Files window, type the following command in the terminal window (depending on which theme you’ve choosen) and press Enter again:

Blue:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme Faience-Moon-Blue

Cheese:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme Faience-Moon-Cheese

That’s it! In case you want to revert to the default Elementary OS theme, just type the following command in terminal and press Enter:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme elementary

Download Blue | Download Cheese

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By Kevin FranÃ§ois Bile Ebelle

Kevin FranÃ§ois is a student of Medicine in Cameroon. He is a geek, and is passionate about everything related directly or indirectly to Opensource. You can find him on Google+, and on Linux Mint Social Network.

SÃ©bastien Moran

Hi,

thanks for the post but there’s no such folder ‘/usr/share/icon/themes’.

Are you sure this is the correct path ?

Thanks.
- https://refu-archive.kevquirk.com/ Kev Quirk
  
  Apologies, that’s an error in the article. The correct path is /usr/share/icons. I’ll edit the article now. Thanks for taking the time to comment!
  - SÃ©bastien Moran
    
    Thanks Kev, I was using the correct path at the time of my first comment, but it was not working.
    Just found out why. The theme folder (and subfolder/files) did not have the right permissions…
    
    sudo chmod -R 755 Faience-xxx to fix the problem.
    
    Thanks :)
  - Anonymous Coward
    
    “sudo chmod -R 755 Faience-xxx to fix the problem.”
    
    Directories need to be executable as well as readable, but files which are not intended to be run as programs such as all icon files in a an icon directory should not be executable.
    
    When installing icons from a an archive with wrong ownership and permissions fix them properly!
    
    cd /usr/share/icons
    
    chown -R root:root icon_theme
    
    find icon_theme -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ;
    
    find cion_theme -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ;
    
    You could put this in a Bourne shell script and make icon_theme an input parameter, testing of course to see that the icon theme directory exiists, if you need to do this on a regular basis.

Faience Moon Icons for Elementary OS Luna