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I installed Adapta theme on my Ubuntu MATE 16.04 desktop and I want to apply the paper icon theme here-> https://snwh.org/paper and incorporate it in along side my Adapta theme. I already installed the icon and cursor theme already but I don't have the unity tweak tool and can't use it for MATE. I need a icon theming tool to apply the paper icon theme for Ubuntu MATE 16.04. Does anyone have any recommendations ?

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  • Possible duplicate of How to apply the adapta theme on ubuntu mate
    – user692175
    Dec 3, 2017 at 23:13
  • that just talks about the background theme. doesn't say about the icons. i already got the theme applied but now i want to apply a custom icon theme
    – Perrytheveganancap
    Dec 3, 2017 at 23:30
  • itsfoss.com/ubuntu-mate-customization and please try using this website for questions that are hard to find and answer for, not for things Google can tell you in less than a second.
    – user692175
    Dec 3, 2017 at 23:39
  • alright i found the solution. step 1 is go to control center. step 2 is go to appearance. Step 3 while in application preferences, click or tap the button customize and there will be 5 tabs at the top. click icons and you icon themes that are pre or you installed will be in there and just click one to apply the theme
    – Perrytheveganancap
    Dec 4, 2017 at 2:41
  • @VeganTechnology Please do not answer your own question in a comment, if you found a solution post an actual answer including the necessary steps you did in detail so others can benefit from it too.
    – Videonauth
    Dec 4, 2017 at 8:35

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I found the solution to get the paper icon theme on Ubuntu MATE 16.04

  1. Install paper theme by copying and pasting in the commands from the developers website here

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:snwh/pulp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install paper-icon-theme
sudo apt-get install paper-cursor-theme
sudo apt-get install paper-gtk-theme

  2. Go to System in the menu bar and click on Control Center

  3. Click on Appearance under the Look and Feel section
  4. After that click on a button called Customize then you will be in a window called Customize Theme
  5. There will be 5 tabs at the top. Controls, Colors, Window Border, Icons, and Pointer. Click on Icons
  6. Now scroll down till you see the paper theme called Paper and Paper-Mono-Dark.
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It is great that you use Ubuntu MATE, but it is strange why you are trying to use unity-tweak-tool here.

You can customize MATE DE with the following tools:

  • for selecting and customizing theme use mate-appearance-properties - it is accessed from System|Preferences|Look and Feel|Appearance (or System|Control Center, then Appearance from here).
  • for customizing LightDM login screen use lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings-pkexec - it is accessed from System|Administration|LightDM GTK+ Greeter settings (or System|Control Center, then LightDM GTK+ Greeter settings from here).
  • for desktop icons, interface panel placement (such as selecting Mutiny layout) and window settings use mate-tweak - it is accessed from System|Preferences|Look and Feel|MATE Tweak (or System|Control Center, then MATE Tweak from here).
  • for default applications use mate-default-applications-properties - it is accessed from System|Preferences|Personal|Preferred Applications (or System|Control Center, then Preferred Applications from here).
  • for user startup applications use mate-session-properties - it is accessed from System|Preferences|Personal|Startup Applications (or System|Control Center, then Startup Applications from here).
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