I’ve put together a small set of fresher Linux Mint 17.x (Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce, KDE) Update Manager status icons and I’d like to share it with you

In the process, I have also included an installer script for convenience and it does quite a few things to make the installation as smooth as possible. I hope you find it useful because I coded more than 250 lines to update and restore 7 icons (insane huh?) – I know, I’m terrible!



The initial script version 201601200 includes 3 icons sets: MintyDark, MintyLight and Default Update Manager status icons.

MintyDark – Update Manager status custom icons

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MintyLight – Update Manager status custom icons

Easy Installer

The install script (install.sh) is wrapped up as executable by default, so you can double click on it and “Run in Terminal”.

Downloading and running it from Terminal:

cd ~/Downloads wget https://unlockforus.com/downloads/mus-icons.tar.gz tar -vxzf mus-icons.tar.gz && cd mus-icons sudo bash install.sh

When the script is not executed with administrative privileges it will prompt for elevation:

From the main window you can install your preferred icon set, restore default status icons and also check for script updates. The UI is nothing more than bash scripting with zenity (a tool that allows you to display GTK dialog boxes in commandline and shell scripts)… and it is here where I decided to actually give the script a simple UI. When looking at the icons set, you’ll soon realize that these 2 sets (MintyDark and MintyLight) will not fit all themes nor every user’s personal preferences. So, in order to provide more custom Update Manager status icons set in the future and to make it easier for users to update the script, I included a “Check for script Updates” option.

Check for script Updates

First, the script performs checks for requirements: Internet connection and cURL. If curl isn’t available, it will prompt the user for install…

It will also check and report whether cURL installation succeeds or not:

When checking for updates, the script informs you whether you’re using the latest available script version or not. The idea here is to provide an easy way to download script updates containing additional icons set, suitable to match other themes. So, if you create your own Update Manager status icons and you would like to share them, get in contact with me and I will add them to the script. Also, improvements to the script itself are welcome!

Anyways, the script does quite a bit of things for what it is. Use it if you like it, share your comments or help improve it if you wish.

If you prefer to manually update the status icons in your box instead of using the script, just copy the files in the MintyDark or MintyLight folder to /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/icons (you’ll need administrative privileges).

I hope you like ’em!

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ToDo’s:

– I’m thinking about including icons preview in a future version. First, I need to find a way to do that with zenity… and I’m lost here! Your help and ideas are appreciated.

– Improve the script logic so we can add custom status icons folders and have them load dynamically.