Bug#890845: HighContrast icon theme doesn't work with GTK3

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 5:46 AM, Yuri D'Elia <wavexx at thregr.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19 2018, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
>> How are you setting the HighContrast icon theme?
>
> I set this using lxappearance, which basically sets
> gtk-icon-theme-name=HighContrast in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

Try setting the icon theme using gsettings. I suggest installing the
GNOME Tweaks app and using that to set your theme.

Alternatively, you can use the command line with something like

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme 'HighContrast'

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha