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How to Install Windows 10 Themes and Icons on Ubuntu

To Install Windows 10 Themes and Icons

Windows 10 themes and icons is used to make your desktop view little more personal in Ubuntu system. The unity tweak tool helps to change the windows 10 themes and icons. Installation of Windows 10 themes and icons on Ubuntu is discussed in this article.

Installation of Windows 10 themes

First add the required repository to install windows 10 theme by using below command. 

root@linuxhelp:~# add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/themes
 themes uploaded on http://www.NoobsLab.com PPA
For exact theme version and support visit on site and see themes page
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~noobslab/+archive/ubuntu/themes
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpw_czl9oc/secring.gpg'  created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpw_czl9oc/pubring.gpg'  created
gpg: requesting key F59EAE4D from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpw_czl9oc/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key F59EAE4D: public key " Launchpad PPA for NoobsLab"  imported
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

Now update the newly added repositories.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com wily-security InRelease
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net wily InRelease   
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily InRelease                        
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net wily InRelease [15.5 kB]                                      
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com wily-security/main Sources                      
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-updates InRelease                        
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports InRelease                                                               
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com wily-security/restricted Sources       
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net wily/main amd64 Packages                                                        
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com wily-security/universe Sources         
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily/main Sources                                  
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net wily/main i386 Packages                                
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com wily-security/multiverse Sources                     
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily/restricted Sources
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Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/restricted i386 Packages                                                                                                             
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/universe i386 Packages                                                                                                               
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/multiverse i386 Packages                                                                                                             
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/main Translation-en                                                                                                                  
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/multiverse Translation-en                                                                                                            
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/restricted Translation-en                                                                                                            
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/universe Translation-en                                                                                                              
Fetched 30.5 kB in 13s (2,213 B/s)                                                                                                                                                   
Reading package lists... Done

Run the below command to install windows 10 theme.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install windos-10-themes
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gtk2-engines-pixbuf libgail-common libgail18 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gtk2-engines-pixbuf windos-10-themes
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libgail-common libgail18 libgtk2.0
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Setting up libgtk2.0-0:amd64 (2.24.28-1ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up libgtk2.0-bin (2.24.28-1ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up libgail18:amd64 (2.24.28-1ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up libgail-common:amd64 (2.24.28-1ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up gtk2-engines-pixbuf:amd64 (2.24.28-1ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up windos-10-themes (0.9.6~wily~NoobsLab.com) ...

keep visit on www.NoobsLab.com

Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu4) ...

Installation of Windows 10 Icons

First move to icons directory and then download the windows 10 icon package.

root@linuxhelp:~# cd /usr/share/icons/
root@linuxhelp:/usr/share/icons# ls
Adwaita  DMZ-Black  gnome      hicolor       Humanity       locolor     redglass  suru           ubuntu-mono-dark   unity-icon-theme            whiteglass
default  DMZ-White  handhelds  HighContrast  Humanity-Dark  LoginIcons  Shadow-2  ubuntu-mobile  ubuntu-mono-light  unity-webapps-applications
root@linuxhelp:/usr/share/icons# wget https://github.com/Elbullazul/Windows-10/releases/download/v0.9.6/Windows.10.Icons.v0.4.1.zip
--2016-08-10 02:12:41--  https://github.com/Elbullazul/Windows-10/releases/download/v0.9.6/Windows.10.Icons.v0.4.1.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.253.112
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.253.112|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://github-cloud.s3.amazonaws.com/releases/47153820/52a20e32-fcaa-11e5-846f-da8ce37cf63b.zip?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256& X-Amz-Credential=AKIAISTNZFOVBIJMK3TQ%2F20160809%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request& X-Amz-Date=20160809T204242Z& X-Amz-Expires=300& X-Amz-Signature=ff0acf8826da06922f6f5430b627ead9670c4ad077a8d0331d3d0dd6f42edad7& X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host& actor_id=0& response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3DWindows.10.Icons.v0.4.1.zip& response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream [following]
--2016-08-10 02:12:42--  https://github-cloud.s3.amazonaws.com/releases/47153820/52a20e32-fcaa-11e5-846f-da8ce37cf63b.zip?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256& X-Amz-Credential=AKIAISTNZFOVBIJMK3TQ%2F20160809%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request& X-Amz-Date=20160809T204242Z& X-Amz-Expires=300& X-Amz-Signature=ff0acf8826da06922f6f5430b627ead9670c4ad077a8d0331d3d0dd6f42edad7& X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host& actor_id=0& response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3DWindows.10.Icons.v0.4.1.zip& response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream
Resolving github-cloud.s3.amazonaws.com (github-cloud.s3.amazonaws.com)... 54.231.8.169
Connecting to github-cloud.s3.amazonaws.com (github-cloud.s3.amazonaws.com)|54.231.8.169|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 20582327 (20M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ Windows.10.Icons.v0.4.1.zip’ 

Windows.10.Icons.v0.4.1.zip                   100%[=================================================================================================> ]  19.63M   634KB/s   in 31s    

2016-08-10 02:13:14 (656 KB/s) - ‘ Windows.10.Icons.v0.4.1.zip’  saved [20582327/20582327]

Next extract the downloaded package with following command.

root@linuxhelp:/usr/share/icons# unzip Windows.10.Icons.v0.4.1.zip
Archive:  Windows.10.Icons.v0.4.1.zip
   creating: Windows 10 Icons/
   creating: Windows 10 Icons/128x128/
   creating: Windows 10 Icons/128x128/apps/
  inflating: Windows 10 Icons/128x128/apps/claws-mail.svg  
  inflating: Windows 10 Icons/128x128/apps/internet-mail.svg  
 extracting: Windows 10 Icons/128x128/apps/libreoffice-base.png  
 extracting: Windows 10 Icons/128x128/apps/libreoffice-calc.png  
 extracting: Windows 10 Icons/128x128/apps/libreoffice-draw.png  
 extracting: Windows 10 Icons/128x128/apps/libreoffice-impress.png  
 extracting: Windows 10 Icons/128x128/apps/libreoffice-main.png
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  Windows 10 Icons/48x48/status/stock_weather-night-clear.png ->  weather-clear-night.png
  Windows 10 Icons/48x48/status/stock_weather-night-few-clouds.png ->  weather-few-clouds-night.png
  Windows 10 Icons/48x48/status/stock_weather-showers.png ->  weather-showers.png
  Windows 10 Icons/48x48/status/stock_weather-snow.png ->  weather-snow.png
  Windows 10 Icons/48x48/status/stock_weather-storm.png ->  weather-storm.png
  Windows 10 Icons/48x48/status/stock_weather-sunny.png ->  weather-clear.png
  Windows 10 Icons/48x48/status/sunny.png ->  weather-clear.png
  Windows 10 Icons/48x48/status/trashcan_full.png ->  user-trash-full.png
  Windows 10 Icons/48x48/status/xfce-trash_full.png ->  user-trash-full.png
  Windows 10 Icons/8x8/emblems/emblem-noread.png ->  emblem-unreadable.png
  Windows 10 Icons/8x8/emblems/emblem-nowrite.png ->  emblem-readonly.png

Now you can remove the zip file by using the below command.

root@linuxhelp:/usr/share/icons# rm -rf Windows.10.Icons.v0.4.1.zip

After the successful installation, open the unity tweak tool to view windows 10 themes and icons.

Here click theme icon.

Next select windows 10 theme to change the theme.

Next select windows 10 icons option to change the icons.

Now you can see the themes and icons of window 10 in your Ubuntu machine as given below.

Tag : Windows 10 themes
Comment
bustersolomon
Aug 04 2022
Sorry for asking this, but do you know how to install Windows on Mac? I have never used computers like this so I simply don't know anythinga about it.
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