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I have installed several icon sets, e.g. faenza via the equinox PPA.
However, they do not appear in GNOME Tweaks > Appearance > Icons.

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I have done both ALT-F2 + R and reboot, still not showing.

I cannot activate/use them. There is not really much that can be done wrong when installing them via PPA. So what am I missing?

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  • i.stack.imgur.com/PGK9j.gif I have just installed sudo apt install faenza-icon-theme with out PPA and it is working like this..
    – PRATAP
    Mar 20, 2019 at 10:37
  • Which PPA are you using?
    – Kulfy
    Mar 20, 2019 at 11:05
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    I have done both, ALT F2 + R and reboot. Not showing.
    – ARAGATO
    Mar 20, 2019 at 11:20
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    Using the equinox PPA i.imgur.com/CTJFa5g.png
    – ARAGATO
    Mar 20, 2019 at 11:34
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    Do you get some errors when you do sudo apt update? This PPA was last updated for Trusty (14.04). There is no release for Cosmic (18.10). Also, what is the output of apt list --installed | grep faenza; ls -l /usr/share/icons/Faenza ?
    – Kulfy
    Mar 20, 2019 at 14:45

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It was a problem related to permissions.

This output shows the folders exist but as you can see they are not accessible by users other than root.

drwx------ 11 root root 4096 Mar 20 17:07 Faenza/
drwx------  4 root root 4096 Mar 20 17:07 Faenza-Ambiance/
drwx------  9 root root 4096 Mar 20 17:07 Faenza-Dark/
drwx------  5 root root 4096 Mar 20 17:07 Faenza-Darker/
drwx------  5 root root 4096 Mar 20 17:07 Faenza-Darkest/
drwx------  4 root root 4096 Mar 20 17:07 Faenza-Radiance/

Change the rights of the folders by executing the command sudo chmod 755 -R /usr/share/icons/Faenza and restart GNOME shell using Alt+F2 and then type r and press Enter. faenza now shows in icon themes.

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