No Gnome Theme Manager

**broken tibula** · August 26th, 2008

I want to install an icon package that I downloaded from Gnome-Look.org, but all the instructions for installation I find tell me to open the Gnome Theme Manager... I don't have one of those. I can't find anything resembling it, either, and I tried installing it in the terminal by typing in:

sudo apt-get install gnome-theme-manager

but it tells me that it can't find the package.

I'm a complete Linux newbie, and I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but please help me find it. I'm running Ubuntu 8.04, and I have Compiz and Emerald installed and running.

**silkstone** · August 26th, 2008

System > Preferences > Appearance will get you to the themes. There's an install button there, but you should also be able to drag and drop themes into that window. If I remember correctly, you can just drag the tar.gz file without unpacking anything.

**karasuman** · August 26th, 2008

Right-click on the Desktop. Select "Change Desktop Background." This opens the "Background" Tab of "Appearance Preferences", from which you can choose any other tab to change the other settings.

(I mention this because it's probably the most intuitive way to access these settings for a former Windows user.)

Choose the "Theme" tab, select a theme, and click "Customize" at the bottom. From here, you can alter most of your theme settings. If you have a theme or icon set to install, choose "Install" instead of "Customize."