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
  • Ubuntu and derivatives
  • Debian and derivatives
  • Papirus Installer
  • Snap
  • Third-party packages
• Hardcoded icons
  • Hardcoded application icons
  • Hardcoded tray icons
  • Steam runtime 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 (Defaults DESTDIR=/usr/share/icons)
• EXTRA_THEMES - additional icon themes that you want to install alongside Papirus icon theme (Defaults EXTRA_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 (Defaults TAG=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 | env DESTDIR="$HOME/.icons" sh

HOME directory for KDE

wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-install | env 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.

[!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:
  • Arc theme
  • Materia theme
• For KDE, our recommendation is:
  • Arc KDE
  • Materia KDE

Manual fixes

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.

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.