[HOW TO] Install AwOken icon theme in Xubuntu

Updated: 14/05/2013. Version 2.5 released and available via PPA up to Raring (13.04).

AwOken is a icon theme for Linux that is very well designed and allows plenty customization. The theme can be further personalized; the package comes with some scripts that help you to easily choose one of the 46 available folder types and more. There are three main variants: AwOken Clear, AwOken Dark and AwOken White.

Bellow you'll find instructions to install and customize AwOken. There are two installation processes: manual and using PPA. If you which to get automatic updates, you should choose the PPA method.

Install AwOken (PPA)

Open a terminal window and run:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alecive/antigone -y && \
sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt-get install awoken-icon-theme -y

Install AwOken (Manual)

Open a terminal window and run (please let me now if something goes wrong; I chose to include the download as a command and I'm afraid the URL might change in the future, but for now the instructions are as automatic as possible):

wget -O awoken.zip http://goo.gl/DeCgI && \
unzip -x awoken.zip  && \
cd AwOken-2.5/ && \
test ! -d ~/.icons && mkdir ~/.icons || true && \
for f in $(ls *.tar.gz); do tar -xf $f; done && \
mv AwOken*/ ~/.icons/ && \
cd ~/.icons/ && \
sudo cp -p AwOken/awoken-icon-theme-customization /usr/bin && \
sudo cp -p AwOken/awoken-icon-theme-customization-clear /usr/bin && \
sudo cp -p AwOkenDark/awoken-icon-theme-customization-dark /usr/bin && \
sudo cp -p AwOkenWhite/awoken-icon-theme-customization-white /usr/bin \
rm -rf ~/AwOken-2.5/ ~/awoken.zip

Customize AwOken

AwOken can be customized using the awoken-icon-theme-customization script provided in the package. Just run this on a terminal window or use Alt+F2:

awoken-icon-theme-customization

AwOken Customization

The customization process is pretty simple, just follow the instructions.

Usage

After installing and customizing AwOken it can be finally set as the icon theme using Xfce's Appearance Settings.

Uninstall AwOken (PPA)

Open a terminal window and run:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alecive/antigone -r -y && \
sudo apt-get remove awoken-icon-theme -y

Uninstall AwOken (Manual)

Open a terminal window and run:

rm -rf ~/.icons/AwOken*/ && \
sudo rm AwOken/ /usr/bin/awoken-icon-theme-customization*

References

AwOken by *alecive on deviantART