reNIX is a beautiful Android like theme for Gnome Shell. If you installed reNIX GTK3 theme, this will nicely complement it to make your desktop look good.
Download reNIX for Gnome Shell
Instructions
Make sure you have user-theme-extension installed. Load the GNOME Tweak Tool (available in Ubuntu Software Center) and go to "Theme" section.
Half-left has designed yet another great theme for Gnome Shell. His latest theme is based on the look of Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin and it looks really beautiful.
Download Ubuntu Precise Pangolin Gnome Shell Theme
Instructions
Use User Theme Extension and Gnome Tweak Tool to switch Gnome Shell themes. Gnome Tweak Tool can be installed from Ubuntu Software Center.
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 with Gnome-Shell from the gnome-3-team/gnome3 ppa.
This is working great, and I have my custom theme setup.
The only issue I am running into is that Gnome-Shell seems to forget the theme after every reboot.
If I open gnome-tweak-tool the correct theme is selected, however it is not applied; if I select anything else and then re-select the theme it is then applied correct
reNIX is a beautiful GTK3 theme inspired by Android. The theme is compatible with latest Unity and Gnome Shell and comes with a squared metacity theme.
Download reNIX
To install, extract the archive to the themes directory i.e.
I switched from Unity to Gnome 3.4 but I'd like to tweak my desktop a bit. I want to use a gnome shell theme but the gnome tweak tool won't allow me to modify the gnome shell themes. I've read somewhere that if I reinstall the gnome-shell then it would conflict with Unity and I wouldn't be able to safely use Unity anymore. Is there a way to change the theme without reinstalling the gnome-shell?
Greybird, the default theme of Xubuntu has been completely revamped.
After installed gnome-shell session on Ubuntu 12.04, you may be interested to try out a few themes on your desktop, and this simple tutorial will show you how to do it.
Preparation:
Apart from ensuring you actually have gnome-shell installed, the first thing need to do is installing gnome-tweak-tool and gnome-shell-extensions-user-theme.
Press Ctrl+Alt+T to launch terminal, and type in this
Elementary Dark GTK3 theme has been updated for Ubuntu 12.04 and Gnome 3.4.
Made by Satya, the theme is inspired by default Elementary OS theme but it comes as a darker variant.
Download Elementary Dark GTK3 Theme
To install from PPA, run the commands below:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:satyajit-happy/themes
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install elementary-dark-them
I want to install this Shell theme: http://half-left.deviantart.com/art/GNOME-Shell-Elementary-Luna-251149793
How can I do this since the Tweak tool can't offer a solution to me?
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