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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?

pomsky
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  • https://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 '19 at 10:37
  • Which PPA are you using? – Kulfy Mar 20 '19 at 11:05
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    I have done both, ALT F2 + R and reboot. Not showing. – ARAGATO Mar 20 '19 at 11:20
  • This shows it is installed: https://i.imgur.com/MTyMRSo.png and this shows that no other than the standard icon packs are listed in Gnome Tweaks: https://i.imgur.com/6KM0aoX.png – ARAGATO Mar 20 '19 at 11:26
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    Using the equinox PPA https://i.imgur.com/CTJFa5g.png – ARAGATO Mar 20 '19 at 11:34
  • Please note that you should always [edit] your question and add relevant info. Comments section is not a safe place for that as comments tend to get overlooked (and even deleted) for various reasons. – pomsky Mar 20 '19 at 14:44
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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 '19 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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