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How can I change the GNOME-Shell theme manually?

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I accidentally made GNOME-Shell unusable by testing a theme which completely broke the environment. After I've logged in nothing happens, all I get is an empty desktop.

I can't change the GNOME-Shell theme through gnome-tweak-tool when I'm not currently running the GNOME-Shell so how can I change this manually? There must be a value in gconf or something that I can edit to restore the shell, right?

Please help me out here? :)

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answered 3 Years ago algicuade · Accepted Answer

First you need to get hold of a theme, if you don't got one you can find one here.
After you downloaded the theme, unzip it to "/usr/share/gnome-shell/theme".
Then you can reload gnome-shell by ALT+F2 and typing gnome-shell --replace
Or just log out and back in again.

Hope it helped.