Ubuntu – Can’t enable GNOME Shell user theme extension

11.10gnomegnome-shellgnome-shell-extensionthemes

Just installed 11.10 and GNOME Tweak Tool but can't install gnome-shell-extensions-user-theme due to it not existing (or so apt-get install tells me). Because of that, there is no enabling user-theme-extensions in the advanced settings for the GNOME Tweak Tool. I can't find the repository for it anywhere. What am I doing wrong?

Best Answer

Geeky Way

You can install user-themes and other extensions from PPA, since extensions are not available in official repositories. Enter following commands to have themes working.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/gnome3

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-extensions-user-theme

Now restart gnome-shell using Alt+F2 run dialog and entering r.

Enable extension form gnome-tweak-tool and you're done.

Preferred Alternate Way

This is by far the easiest way to install "user-themes" extension, as well as many other GNOME shell extensions.

  • Just open Firefox (you CAN NOT use any other browser, as of now).
  • And visit extensions.gnome.org
  • You can search for extension you're looking for, as well explore other great extensions.

  • Found the extension? Just click on the switch to install it.

  • Aah..... by the way for user-themes, you can get it here.

Note: GNOME Shell doesn't have Alt+F2 Run dialog enabled by default, so if that's the case, you can enable it via Keyboard Settings>Shortcuts>System.

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