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Open your theme-manager and drag and drop the downloaded files onto it. Alternatively unpack those files and move the unpacked folders either to ~/.themes (theme only available for that user) or /usr/share/themes (theme available system-wide).
Alternatively unpack those files and move the unpacked folders either to ~/.themes (theme only available for that user) or /usr/share/themes (theme available system-wide).
i moved the folder to
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/usr/share/themes
How do i install theme now,i can't see theme in gnome-tweak-tool
I don't use Gnome, so I can only guess, but in my experience most theme-managers have to be restarted when you install themes not using the theme-manager.
I don't use Gnome, so I can only guess, but in my experience most theme-managers have to be restarted when you install themes not using the theme-manager.
Could you extract the archive and list the contents?
Also, your title seems to imply that you think that tar.gz files are special files for themes or something. They are just archives, similar to .zip files.
It is not /themes, it is ~/.themes, which is an abbreviation for /home/USERNAME/.themes. Note that dot before themes, which means that this directory is hidden normally.
Could you extract the archive and list the contents?
folder contains:
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gtk-2.0
index.theme
index.theme~
metacity-1
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Also, your title seems to imply that you think that tar.gz files are special files for themes or something. They are just archives, similar to .zip files.
i definitely know that those are archives but i'm trying to learn how to install them but in my case it contains theme..
It is not /themes, it is ~/.themes, which is an abbreviation for /home/USERNAME/.themes. Note that dot before themes, which means that this directory is hidden normally.
What does "folder" mean here? Does the archive contain a single directory that contains those files? If you're not sure, post the output of this command:
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