Icons, Themes, backgrounds and Fonts Locations in Ubuntu
Saturday, 7. February 2009, 17:51:49
Icons, Themes, backgrounds and Fonts Locations
The reason I wrote this is because I see others looking for this locations all the time.
I will add more in time.
Where Are Fonts Stored
Secret Locations:
Standard Locations:
Note: that the .font folder is a hidden folder.
Where are Icons and Themes store
as well as some user-specific directories for the user-created themes:
~/pixmaps are generally used for menu icons.
~/share/icons are generally used for theme icons.\
Where are Login Themes store
Where are backgrounds store
Where are Grub splash images store
Where do updates go:
Essential system binaries, e.g., init, route, ifup.
Libraries for the binaries in /usr/bin/ and /usr/sbin/.
State information. Persistent data modified by programs as they run, e.g., databases, packaging system metadata, etc.
Lock files. Files keeping track of resources currently in use
Log files
Users' mailboxes
Information about the running system since last boot, e.g., currently logged-in users and running daemons
Temporary files to be preserved between reboots
Configuration files for /opt/
Configuration files for SGML
Configuration files for XML
Virtual filesystem documenting kernel and process status as text files, e.g., uptime, network
Source code, e.g., the kernel source code with its header files
local data, specific to the host
The reason I wrote this is because I see others looking for this locations all the time.
I will add more in time.
Where Are Fonts Stored
Secret Locations:
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf.
gedit /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
Standard Locations:
/usr/share/fonts
/usr/local/share/fonts
/home/<username>/.fonts (where <username> is your user name).
Note: that the .font folder is a hidden folder.
Where are Icons and Themes store
/usr/share/themes
/usr/share/icons
/usr/share/pixmaps
as well as some user-specific directories for the user-created themes:
~/.themes
~/.icons
~/pixmaps are generally used for menu icons.
~/share/icons are generally used for theme icons.\
Where are Login Themes store
/usr/share/gdm/themes
Where are backgrounds store
/usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds
/usr/share/backgrounds
Where are Grub splash images store
/boot/grub/splashimages
Where do updates go:
/var/cache/apt/archives/
Essential system binaries, e.g., init, route, ifup.
/sbin/
Libraries for the binaries in /usr/bin/ and /usr/sbin/.
/usr/lib/
State information. Persistent data modified by programs as they run, e.g., databases, packaging system metadata, etc.
/var/lib/
Lock files. Files keeping track of resources currently in use
/var/lock/
Log files
/var/log/
Users' mailboxes
/var/mail/
Information about the running system since last boot, e.g., currently logged-in users and running daemons
/var/run/
Temporary files to be preserved between reboots
/var/tmp/
Configuration files for /opt/
/etc/opt/
Configuration files for SGML
/etc/sgml/
Configuration files for XML
/etc/xml/
Virtual filesystem documenting kernel and process status as text files, e.g., uptime, network
/proc/
Source code, e.g., the kernel source code with its header files
/usr/src/
local data, specific to the host
/usr/local/









Anonymous # 7. February 2009, 21:00
thanks for the info :)
Anonymous # 27. April 2009, 14:08
THANKS!!! GREAT SUMMARY!!!
Anonymous # 12. July 2009, 18:11
thank you this is good info