wm-icons-config command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

wm-icons-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wm-icons-config: command not found

Solutions to wm-icons-config: command not found

How To Fix wm-icons-config: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu wm-icons-config is provided by wm-icons package.

wm-icons is:

The Window Manager Icons is a set of generic icons for use by window managers in a graphical environment. It is an efficient icon distribution designed to be standardized and configurable. It includes several themed icon sets, a template icon set to help building new themed icon sets, scripts and configurations for several window managers.

wm-icons comes with different styles and common window manager sizes (small menu icons, larger desktop icons, etc.) as well as advice and setup for integrating them with various window managers such as FVWM, SCWM, etc. Each set consists of an icon in that size and style for each of about 84 different generic categories (“game”, “editor”, “file-manager”, etc).

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install wm-icons

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install wm-icons.

sudo apt -y install wm-icons

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install wm-icons

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix wm-icons-config command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.