Installation

KDE

1. To install Arcticons on a KDE based distro, you first need to download the latest arcticons-version.tar.gz from the releases page on GitHub.

2. Then go to your System settings > Global theme > Icons there's an install from file button. Press it and navigate to the package you downloaded.

3. This should install two versions, the dark & light version. Choose the version that you want and enjoy the clean icons.

GNOME

In GNOME Shell, you can either use the Terminal and type the command gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme <arcticons-light/arcticons-dark> or use the GNOME Tweaks GUI to change the icon theme to Arcticons Light or Dark. (To change the icons for Qt/KDE applications in GNOME as well, you need to open qt5ct and/or qt6ct and select the icon theme there)

Manual installation

You can install the icon theme by copying the arcticons-light and/or arcticons-dark folder into ~/.local/share/icons for a user-wide installation or into /usr/share/icons for a system-wide installation.