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Installed theme is not working properly

Asked by Sukhendu Ghosal

I have downloaded a icon theme Colored Plastic from gnome-look.org.

Extracted the theme in /usr/share/icons.

Then I selected the icon using Ubuntu tweak tool. But the icons are not working for me .

But when I open nautilus with root privilege it is working fine for root user.

Now when I checked the theme folder I found that it is restricted for root user only .

How can I make the icons available for any user (me).

I have copied the icon in the /usr/share/icons folder using command "sudo nautilus" .

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

You DON'T run nautilus with sudo. You will BREAK your OS. sudo is only for command line commands like apt-get, cp, mv etc. If you want to run GUI apps as root then use gksudo. Eg:

gksudo nautilus

If you want to add an icon set you can put it in ~/.icons of your user and it should be usable.

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Sukhendu Ghosal (sukhendughosal) said : 		#2

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.