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.
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