Installation

AUR

For Arch-based distributions, Arcticons is available via the arcticons-icon-theme and arcticons-icon-theme-git packages on the AUR.

KDE

1. In System Settings, under Appearance & Style, go to Global Theme > Icons, then click the Get New… button.

2. In the pop-up, search for Arcticons and install. Close the pop-up.

3. Select the installed icon pack and click Apply. Enjoy!

GNOME

1. Follow manual installation (below).

2. Ensure that Gnome Tweaks is installed. Under Appearance, in the Icons dropdown, select Arcticons. Enjoy!

3. To change the icons for Qt applications in GNOME as well, you need qt5ct/qt6ct.

Manual installation

1. Download the pack either from openDesktop (and extract arcticons-$VERSION.tar.gz) or the arcticons-light and/or arcticons-dark folder(s) from Codeberg.

2. Move into ~/.local/share/icons for a user-wide installation or into /usr/share/icons for a system-wide installation.