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What did I do wrong when I installed this theme?

rated 0 times [ 2] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 875 / 2 Years ago, thu, october 13, 2022, 4:45:24

I have a problem installing a theme for my Ubuntu, note that I am very new to it and probably messed something up. Still it seems to me that I did everything like it was stated in the INSTALL file.

Theme: http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/?content=140562

So I downloaded the *.zip package, unzipped it in ~/.themes folder and changed Controls and Borders inside my theme preference. Still my result is pretty poor. You can look at the image, it looks nothing like what in the screenshot of the author. I also installed fonts running sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer and tried to install GTK2 engine as sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-murrine gtk2-engines-pixbuf, but it showed that 0 files was modified since I already have it.

Please tell me what did I did wrong so I can fix that :)

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answered 2 Years ago kneducator · Accepted Answer

Uh... The theme is for Gnome. You, as per your screenshot, are clearly using Unity. Unity is Canonical's replacement for the Gnome desktop environment. Think of them as something like Explorer on windows (not just the file browser, but the Explorer bar as well). You're running an entirely different interface than the one that skin was made for.

Sadly, installing Gnome 3 in Ubuntu is painful and unpleasant, and unless you are lucky, it won't end without problems. Furthermore, despite the final release state of Gnome 3, it really comes off as Alpha software in is buggyness, missing features, and lack of options -- whereas Unity is, at least, beta software. I'd link you to help installing Gnome 3, but after following 3 or 4 different guides myself, I ended up with a frankenstein's monster of an install. Would not recommend. Try switching from Ubuntu to a distro that comes with Gnome 3 prepacked, if you really want to -- like Fedora, for example.