Gnome User Themes inquiry

[Deucalion29710]

I had posted previously a question about how to make my shell user themes work in gnome. One of the answers directed me to here:

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/19/user-themes/

My goal is to make the orange triangle go away so that I can theme my shell. I have Gnome up and running and I am logged into it now. I understand that it must be of the same version of gnome that is acquired in update manager.


How do I use this to install shell user themes?

Thanks in advance.

[Cheesemill]

Have you installed the extension yet?

Once you have then you can browse for a theme you've downloaded using the Advanced Settings application (gnome-tweak-tool).

[Deucalion29710]

I have not installed the extension yet. How do I install it? I would rather install from deb file as opposed to terminal if at all possible.

[Cheesemill]

You install extensions from the Gnome Extensions website, just click on the slider in the top left of the page.

[Deucalion29710]

I did the slider and it asked if I wanted to install the extension and nothing happened. In fact I cannot open the tweak tool. It crashes every time. I have removed it and installed it again. Same result. This is a fresh install of xubuntu with all updates completed..

[Cheesemill]

Try this fix from the extension web page:

sudo cp ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/user-theme@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com/schemas/org.gnome.shell.extensions.user-theme.gschema.xml /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/
sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

[BlinkinCat]

Hi,

I am a bit dull and may be misreading the situation here, but I thought that the gnome extensions applied only for gnome shell installations. Correct me if I am wrong.

Cheers -

[Cheesemill]

Hi,

I am a bit dull and may be misreading the situation here, but I thought that the gnome extensions applied only for gnome shell installations. Correct me if I am wrong.

Cheers -

You are correct.

From the OP:

I have Gnome up and running and I am logged into it now.

[BlinkinCat]

You are correct.

From the OP:

I am sorry if I was/am in error - I read #5 where up to date Xubuntu was mentioned.

Kindly accept my apology -

[Deucalion29710]

Try this fix from the extension web page:

sudo cp ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/user-theme@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com/schemas/org.gnome.shell.extensions.user-theme.gschema.xml /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/
sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

You're amazing, man. Worked like a charm. Fully functional now. We can mark this as solved.