How to overwrite an icon for Nautilus with ~/.icons?

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First, FYI This problem will improve an awesome feature in Folder Color application.

I'm trying to change the default folder icon with user privileges. I read that the ~/.icons folder has preference over /usr/share/icons folder.

Then I created a custom icon into:

~/.icons/Humanity/places/48/folder.svg

and I copied the index:

cp /usr/share/icons/Humanity/index.theme ~/.icons/Humanity/index.theme

and finally I reloaded the cache:

gtk-update-icon-cache ~/.icons/hicolor

But Nautilus is getting the icon from /usr/share/icons/Humanity/places/48/folder.svg, How do I know that? Because if I overwrite that icon and update the icon cache in /usr/share/icons/Humanity, the icon in Nautilus changes.

How could I set the global folder icon in Nautilus changing the icon in ~/.icons? Thanks in advance!

http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html

Note you could just copy the entire 'Humanity' to your local icons directory, rename & modify it and use it instead :) . Also if you want different colours you could use the Humanity Colors Icon Theme — Wilf, Feb 22 '15 at 21:59

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 10 '17 at 07:47

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Uhm, changing the directory name 48 to 48x48 is working. I don't know why that difference :O

edited Jun 10 '17 at 07:47

Zanna

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answered Feb 22 '15 at 17:43

Costales

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Maybe because 48x48 denotes no. of pixels while 48 does not – lakshyaag Feb 22 '15 at 17:56
Uhm, with Numix I need 48, with Humanity I need 48x48 :P – Costales Feb 23 '15 at 19:43

How to overwrite an icon for Nautilus with ~/.icons?

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