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How to change the color themes in gnome 3? Anyone? (Note using 11.10)

muru
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  • Hi, I may not understand question properly. However if you are looking for theme tab -- then install gnome-tweak-tool and try it. – wisemonkey Oct 01 '11 at 00:30
  • You have to edit the theme itself, look at /home/user/.themes/ if you have installed any GTK3 themes FOR the Gnome Shell themes look here http://askubuntu.com/questions/62495/how-to-change-the-window-theme-in-gnome-shell/62500#62500 – Uri Herrera Oct 01 '11 at 01:33
  • Also since I have the Kubuntu-desktop installed, I just went to K-desktop settings and changed the color theme there while I had gnome3 running –  Mar 14 '13 at 01:34
  • Is the GNOME 3 project so new, that they cannot safely include a few themes in their settings panel without the need for installing additional software? – Lonnie Best Apr 22 '19 at 14:08

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You have to directly edit the theme. The themes are located under /usr/share/themes. For the Adwaita theme, the colors are declared in the gtk.css file.

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A simpler way:

sudo apt-get install gnome-colors gnome-tweak-tool

Then, run the command in the terminal: 

gnome-tweak-tool

Then go to theme/icon theme.

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Marcos Alex
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The new way:

sudo apt-get install gnome-colors gnome-tweak-tool

Then, run the command in the terminal:

gnome-tweaks

Then go to theme/icon theme.

Tobi696
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Some pretty nice ones can be found here (in German):

http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Gnome_Shell/Themes#Shell-Designs

PythoNic
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