[SOLVED] Remove icon themes

[alo0oz]

I want to remove all the unused icon themes eating up my space.
How can i do this?
Would appriciate your kind help.

[k-314]

Under Xfce it is a good habit to install additional icon themes in ~/.icons/

Removing those is easy and doe not require root access ....

Other icon themes should be under /usr/share/icons/, but need root access.

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[Flemur]

I want to remove all the unused icon themes eating up my space.
How can i do this?
Would appriciate your kind help.

Very carefully!

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ls -F /usr/share/icons
Adwaita/     Mint-X/	     default/	    gnome/		  oxygen/
DMZ-Black/   gnome-colors-common/  
DMZ-White/  

"/" = a directory.
I use use "Mint-X" regular and deleted a bunch of "Mint-X-somethings" as well as some other names.
Pro Tip! Try moving them somewhere else or use a file-browser to send them to trash, then rebooting and testing everything before you actually delete. Note that moving the files to trash won't save any space until you empty it.

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cd /usr/share/icons
sudo mv one-you-dont-want ~/Downloads/.

Then test.