How to Change the Latest Apple Mac Icon Theme on XFCE Desktop

Try the Apple Mac Big Sur icon theme on the latest XFCE desktop

mrfdn – If you’re bored with the default look of your XFCE desktop, you might be able to do some customization. One of them by changing the icon theme.

You can use any icon of the GTK type.

And the good news is that we can make the XFCE desktop look similar to the Apple Mac operating system, complete with the theme icon.

Don’t miss out on how to install Global Menu on the XFCE desktop to make your linux look very much like Apple’s Mac OS system.

If you are confused about how to change the XFCE icon theme, please follow the following easy steps.

1. Find your favorite theme you want to install

Usually people use apple themes like Mojave, Catalina, or the latest, Big Sur.

You can find the icon on the Pling site

2. Next, download the icon file with the extension .tar.gz

3. Right-click the downloaded file and select extract here.

4. Copy or cut the extracted folder.

5. Open the icon folder saved in the /home/yourusername/.local/share/icons/

If it’s not visible, try activating show hidden files in the view menu or pressing CTRL+H.

6. Right click and paste.

7. Next open Settings >> Appearance >> Icons

8. You will find the icon that was installed earlier. Click to activate it and see the changes made to your system.

Certain types of icon themes have an exclamation mark behind them.

That means the icon does not have a cache file that will be stored on the system. So that when the computer restarts the icon will not function optimally or even not active at all.

To fix this, please open a terminal and type the command
sudo gtk-update-icon-cache /home/yourUsername/.local/share/icons/FolderIconname

For more details, point the cursor to the icon that has an exclamation mark and then follow the instructions it gives.