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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

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  • 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, 2015 at 21:59

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

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    Maybe because 48x48 denotes no. of pixels while 48 does not
    – lakshyaag
    Feb 22, 2015 at 17:56
  • Uhm, with Numix I need 48, with Humanity I need 48x48 :P
    – Costales
    Feb 23, 2015 at 19:43

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