Open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and use the following commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:snwh/pulp Lets see how to install Moka icons set in Mint using PPA. Most of the standard and popular icon themes have their own PPA. The second way to install an icon theme is using a PPA. If you download the icon theme in a zipped folder, you can extract it in ~/.icons directory. There are two ways to install icon themes in Linux Mint (and many other Linux distributions, if not all). An icon theme just changes the look of icons while a theme changes a lot of other things along with the looks of icons. Just a quick note, if you do not know it already, there is a difference between ‘themes’ and ‘icon themes’. We shall see this quick tutorial by installing gorgeous Paper icon theme.
If you think the default Mint themes and icons are not good enough for you, why not change it? In this quick tip for beginners, we shall see how to install icon themes in Linux Mint 18 and more than that how to change the icons in Linux Mint. Brief: This quick tutorial for beginners shows how to install and change icon themes in Linux Mint.
