I have gone through the procedure stated in the xfce wiki, regarding changing the icon themes in the DE, but i fail to spot and work with the directories listed in that.
The procedure i am following is
Icons
Extract the theme in ~/.icons
System wide installation in ${sysprefix}/local/share/icons
Optional: run gtk-update-icon-cache -f -t ~/.icons/<theme_name> to create an icon cache 1)
If the theme contains scalable icons ( ~/.icons/<theme_name>/scalable ) make sure you have librsvg installed
Select the theme in the User Interface Settings (2nd tab, Xfce 4.4.x) or in the Appearance Settings (2nd tab, Xfce 4.6.x)
Not if you’re following that! Mostly I just dump them in ~/.icons, and then select them in Appearance. Occasionally I find them as package in the AUR, and just install them with yay. Both work, so far always. I have sometimes run the command to create an icon cache, but it’s been pretty hit-or-miss. No problems so far.
I suspect this isn’t a whole lot of help! What icons are they, and whence are they sourced? Can only guess without that I guess…
Thanks!
I managed to understand that the default directory for moving the themes in Endeavour (perhaps in other distros as well) is currently the /usr/share/themes, which should also be system-wide. Moving the themes there and doing a fast “shutdown -r now” seemed to have solved out everything.
simple log out would do the job too… and i would use ~/icons/ so you can handle as normal user (~ is users home “tag” = /home/yourusername/.icons/ )