Ubuntu – How to edit and install pre-installed Ambiance theme without unity tweak tool

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I want to modify the per-installed Ambiance theme in Ubuntu 14.04.
It is located in /usr/share/themes/.
I copied the Ambiance directory to ~/.themes/ and renamed it to AmbianceDark.

Now I want to show it up in the Appearance Theme menu. Also I do not want to use any external tweak tools. But my search is resulting in only tweak tools to install the modified theme.

How to do it? Any help will be highly appreciated.

Best Answer

You can change the themes by using gsettings.

$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme "yourtheme name"

You can also type gsettings by itself to get details of usage.

You can use get to check your current settings. If you use the get argument, you can't include a theme-name on that commandline.

$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme

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