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When I change the icons of my folders, where does Ubuntu store these icon settings? I would like to know because I set the wrong picture to be the icon of folder, so I replaced it with another picture which was as the same filename as the wrong one, but the icon didn't change. How can I change the icon?

David
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JulianLai
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    Good question and while it's not an exact duplicate, you may find this answer helpful. It's gvfs storing the metadata, not Nautilus itself. Because of the renaming, it's probably Nautilus caching a copy of the old icon causing your issue. Try restarting Nautilus to see if that refreshes the icon. – Tom Brossman Mar 28 '16 at 13:53
  • @TomBrossman Could you make it as an answer? – JulianLai Mar 30 '16 at 03:40
  • It's probably best if you copy whatever worked from my comment (or the linked answers) and post an answer to your own question, which is encouraged here. I don't know what worked for you so I would just be guessing. – Tom Brossman Mar 30 '16 at 18:24

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The iconpacks are stored in /usr/share/icons/ . Many icon packs are stored in this folder. To change the icon for a particular app or folder replace the file with the same name in the icon pack you are using. By default , ubuntu uses unity-mono-dark iconthemes stored at location /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-dark. To change the icon theme, I use unity tweak tool.

Kevin Selva Prasanna
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