Can't enable GNOME Shell user theme extension

Question

Just installed 11.10 and GNOME Tweak Tool but can't install gnome-shell-extensions-user-theme due to it not existing (or so apt-get install tells me). Because of that, there is no enabling user-theme-extensions in the advanced settings for the GNOME Tweak Tool. I can't find the repository for it anywhere. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Geeky Way

You can install user-themes and other extensions from PPA, since extensions are not available in official repositories. Enter following commands to have themes working.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/gnome3

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-extensions-user-theme

Now restart gnome-shell using Alt+F2 run dialog and entering r.

Enable extension form gnome-tweak-tool and you're done.

Preferred Alternate Way

This is by far the easiest way to install "user-themes" extension, as well as many other GNOME shell extensions.

• Just open Firefox (you CAN NOT use any other browser, as of now).
• And visit extensions.gnome.org
• You can search for extension you're looking for, as well explore other great extensions.

• Found the extension? Just click on the switch to install it.

• Aah..... by the way for user-themes, you can get it here.

Note: GNOME Shell doesn't have Alt+F2 Run dialog enabled by default, so if that's the case, you can enable it via Keyboard Settings>Shortcuts>System.

Answer 2

Did you follow the instructions on: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/04/themeselector-gnome-shell-extension-to.html ?

I want to add to the answer of above that extensions will, most likely, never be available by ppa (only by thirdparties proberbly, like the website webupd8 does now) extensions will come eventually available by: https://extensions.gnome.org/

Answer 3

You might find this helpful. If the extensions are there, (check extensions folder) but not showing in gnome-tweak-tool, it may be due to errors in the gnome-tweak tool itself

Changed the files

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtweak/gshellwrapper.py

and

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtweak/gsettings.py

as mentioned in the article below.

Now you should have full access to all shell extensions and there is no longer an error from gnome-tweak-tool

Click here for details of the fix