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Nishant George Agrwal
Asked: 2011-09-22 22:27:20 +0800 CST

How to change the window theme in Gnome Shell

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I use Gnome Shell on Ubuntu 11.10. I can use Gnome Tweak Tool to change the GTK theme and icon theme, but I can't change my window theme. If I select anything other than the default theme "Adwaita", and restart gnome shell, it reverts to the accessibility theme. How can I change the window/Metacity

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  1. Best Answer

    Download a theme>extract it>Inside it should have something similar to this:

    enter image description here

    As you can see there's a gtk-3.0 and a metacity-1 folder. These two folders should be in: /home/user/.themes/.

    Then open up Gnome Tweak Tool>go to Theme>Window theme>Scroll down to the theme you want. enter image description here

    Log out, and done.

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  2. try this:

    gconf-editor

    and change the theme in /desktop/gnome/shell/windows

    enter image description here

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