Install Material Design Paper Icon Theme on Ubuntu, Arch Linux, and Linux Mint

Paper Icon Theme is one of the popular and modern free Ubuntu desktop themes. This theme is inspired and based on Google’s material design. But some aspect is adjusted for the best suite of the desktop environment. Paper icon theme demands at least GTK 3.16 for better integration. This theme comes with clean code and updates regularly via daily PPA. Paper icon theme supports all Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Peppermint, Deepin, and other Ubuntu-based systems.

Terminal Command Installation

Install Paper Icon Theme in Ubuntu :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:snwh/pulp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install paper-icon-theme paper-gtk-theme

Install From Source (GIT) :

Paper icon theme :

git clone https://github.com/snwh/paper-icon-theme.git
cd paper-icon-theme
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

Paper desktop theme :

git clone https://github.com/snwh/paper-gtk-theme.git
cd paper-gtk-theme
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

For More information, follow How To Use Themes and Icons on Various Linux Desktop.

The paper icon theme is designed following Google’s material design. The icon is flat, which will remind you about the Android OS.

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