how to use GNOME themes

Today I downloaded and installed openSUSE 13.1 with GNOME shell 3.10.1. Installation went very well, so I started to customize my desktop. I found interesting user themes at https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/19/user-themes/ I switched the button to install the themes and I confirmed the download and installation.

When I look in the Tweak tool at the page ‘Extensions’, I see that the user themes are available, but nothing has changed on my desktop and I can’t find any possibility in the Tweak tool to choose a theme, or to change something.

Can anyone help me how I can choose a user theme so I can customize my desktop?

Thijs Bennis

On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 22:06:02 +0000, bennist wrote:

> Today I downloaded and installed openSUSE 13.1 with GNOME shell 3.10.1.
> Installation went very well, so I started to customize my desktop. I
> found interesting user themes at
> https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/19/user-themes/ I switched the
> button to install the themes and I confirmed the download and
> installation.
>
> When I look in the Tweak tool at the page ‘Extensions’, I see that the
> user themes are available, but nothing has changed on my desktop and I
> can’t find any possibility in the Tweak tool to choose a theme, or to
> change something.
>
> Can anyone help me how I can choose a user theme so I can customize my
> desktop?
>
> Thijs Bennis

You might need to restart gnome-shell. Press Alt+F2 and run “r” (that’s
a shortcut to reload gnome-shell).

Jim


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On Tue 19 Nov 2013 10:13:24 PM CST, Jim Henderson wrote:

On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 22:06:02 +0000, bennist wrote:

> Today I downloaded and installed openSUSE 13.1 with GNOME shell
> 3.10.1. Installation went very well, so I started to customize my
> desktop. I found interesting user themes at
> User Themes - GNOME Shell Extensions I switched the
> button to install the themes and I confirmed the download and
> installation.
>
> When I look in the Tweak tool at the page ‘Extensions’, I see that the
> user themes are available, but nothing has changed on my desktop and I
> can’t find any possibility in the Tweak tool to choose a theme, or to
> change something.
>
> Can anyone help me how I can choose a user theme so I can customize my
> desktop?
>
> Thijs Bennis

You might need to restart gnome-shell. Press Alt+F2 and run
“r” (that’s a shortcut to reload gnome-shell).

Jim

Hi
You have to install a theme via the tweak tool -> appearance (left
side with folder icon and must also be a zip file), then select the
theme right side drop down. Just installing the theme extension just enables the feature.


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bennist wrote:
>
> Today I downloaded and installed openSUSE 13.1 with GNOME shell 3.10.1.
> Installation went very well, so I started to customize my desktop. I
> found interesting user themes at
> https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/19/user-themes/ I switched the
> button to install the themes and I confirmed the download and
> installation.
>
> When I look in the Tweak tool at the page ‘Extensions’, I see that the
> user themes are available, but nothing has changed on my desktop and I
> can’t find any possibility in the Tweak tool to choose a theme, or to
> change something.
>
> Can anyone help me how I can choose a user theme so I can customize my
> desktop?
>
> Thijs Bennis
>
>
That extension should enable you to Turn ON/OFF the themes already
present on your machine

The theme packs are “tar” files which you need download and extract and
put the contents into the folder /home/<usernames>/.themes. If the
…themes folder doesn’t exist then create one.

Your shell-theme path should be like :-

/home/<username>/.themes/Black/gnome-shell
/home/<username>/.themes/ipad-reload/gnome-shell
/home/<username>/.themes/XGnome Enhanced 3.6/gnome-shell
/home/<username>/.themes/Zukitwo/gnome-shell

Other than shell themes, you need GTK themes to change window
decorations and borders.

Once you have the theme packs extracted and placed in appropriate
locations you can change themes using gnome-tweak-tool


GNOME 3.6.2
openSUSE Release 12.3 (Dartmouth) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.7.10-1.16-desktop

Thank you for all your replies and your help. Now it is clear to me how I can install and use themes in GNOME, so my question is answered.

Thijs Bennis

bennist wrote:
>
> Thank you for all your replies and your help. Now it is clear to me how
> I can install and use themes in GNOME, so my question is answered.
>
> Thijs Bennis
>
>
your are welcome


GNOME 3.10.1
openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.11.6-4-desktop