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hooya

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Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 99

Themes not showing as an option in gnome-tweak-tool

Arch noob here. Just trying to get something other than the default themes to install for gnome 3.2, but nothing new placed in ~/.themes/ shows up in any options within gnome-tweak-tool.

Here's one of the themes I've tried to install:
http://therealpadster.deviantart.com/ar … -207708800

When I extract the zip the full path looks like this:

/home/$uname/.themes/London Smoke/gnome-shell/*

where * is all the files like the svg and .css files.

I go into gnome-tweak-tool and nothing related to the new theme shows up. I log out, log in, still nothing.

Any thoughts? What am I missing?

p.s. I'm a recent convert from Ubuntu. 3 years and I've learned a lot, but now I've outgrown Ubuntu with my desire to be more on the bleeding edge all the time, and the rolling release philosophy really appealed to me. :-)

arctos

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Registered: 2010-12-19

Posts: 13

Re: Themes not showing as an option in gnome-tweak-tool

The "dirty" way to solve it:
- First you rename the folder gnome-shell to theme
- Second you create a backup of the theme folder from /usr/share/gnome-shell/ by rename it to whatever.you.like
- Third you move the gnome-shell folder (now named theme) to /usr/share/gnome-shell

Or in other words

mv /home/$uname/.themes/London\ Smoke/gnome-shell/ /home/$uname/.themes/London\ Smoke/theme

mv /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme1

sudo mv /home/$uname/.themes/London\ Smoke/theme /usr/share/gnome-shell/

then

ALT + F2, type r and press Enter

hooya

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Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 99

Re: Themes not showing as an option in gnome-tweak-tool

Well, there must be something not quite right about that theme and doing it that way, as it totally locked up the shell almost right away (doing an app search to get a new window open) and when I tried to revert I did something wrong and had to reinstall gnome-shell to get the system working again.

Is there a cleaner solution?

Themes installed from AUR through yaourt work, although it doesn't look like the top menu changes, etc...

Edit:
OK, so what I mean is the shell extensions isn't working. I installed the user themes extension, but I still can't change it in gnome-tweak-tool... That extension doesn't show up in the extensions tab, so I can't enable it. Any ideas on that?

Last edited by hooya (2011-10-09 23:47:05)