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Questions about "themes" which alter the look of the interface.

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Find theme's name

Hello, who knows what is this theme name?
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How can I restore my Unity themes to their defaults?

When I installed KDE on Ubuntu 14.10, it messed up some of the Unity settings like the text size and theme colors. I finally managed to completely remove it from my computer, and the text is back to ...
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Can I use GNOME 3 themes and icons with Unity too?

I like to play around with themes and icons to make my desktop looking more lovely. Can I use the themes and icons also for Unity 3D/2D, or what do I have to look for to know when and how I have to ...
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Problems with using themes in Geany

I'm trying to switch to the Geany editor for my web development but need to switch to a dark theme. In searching for some default themes I came across this excellent collection. I've now installed ...
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Where can I download the latest version of the Ambiance theme?

Where can I obtain the latest version of the Ubuntu Ambiance themes or Ubuntu themes in general? Specifically I am looking for a download of the 10.10 Ambiance theme for my 09.10 install and I have ...
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How does Firefox detect light/dark theme change on KDE systems?

I have a few cron jobs which switch between light and dark themes automatically on my KDE system (for those interested, there's the lookandfeeltool where I simply switch between global light and dark ...
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Set Lubuntu 20_04LXQT theme to dark

In Lubuntu 20_04(LXQT), you have "dark" in preferences -> lxqt settings -> appearance. In LXQT Theme, the default is Lubuntu Arc. 'Dark' sets the Menu in the bottom left and the task ...
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Please guide about ubuntu (newbie) [closed]

i am new to ubuntu and have not yet installed it. I am a windows user and have no previous knowledge of ubuntu. I have just once installed ubuntu in virtual machine to see the OS. But right now i am ...
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need help,ubuntu theme problem

I am a Ubuntu 14.04 LTS user and everything was working fine,until I miss clicked some button or may have deleted a file,the Ubuntu currently looks weird,and mostly unusable. want help for it to be ...
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Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 cannot change window border theme

I installed Ubuntu Gnome 13.10 and when I change GTK theme using Gnome Tweak Tool, only theme of widgets changes, theme of Window border remains same. Can somebody help me to fix this issue ?
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Why do some icon themes have so many different sizes?

[12:24 PM] /usr/share/icons/hicolor $ ls 128x128 192x192 24x24 32x32 48x48 64x64 96x96 index.theme 16x16 22x22 256x256 36x36 512x512 72x72 icon-theme.cache scalable [...
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How to install Window theme on Ubuntu without sudo privileges?

I want to install a theme but, I need sudo! Im running Ubuntu 12.10 (Gnome 3). The theme in question is called "notxp theme". I don't have sudo privilege on my machine. Is there a way to install the ...
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GNOME Shell 3.4 - I can't change theme

Problem after upgrade to GNOME Shell 3.4 (Ubuntu 11.10) I installed Ubuntu 12.04 over the previous setting the /home partition. I installed the GNOME Shell, unfortunately I can not change a theme: ...
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Appindicator Theme Dependent Icons

I am developing PyGTK app with appindicator. I create my appindicator similar like in this example. In this example "indicator-messages" stock icon is used. So, I can: use stock icon (from existing ...
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broken gnome shell theme

After some updates my gnome-shell theme is broken (looks like old gnome2). I tried many things: uinstalled alls gnome-shell extensions uninstalled and again installed gnome-shell as well uinstalled ...
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How can I enable themes in Gnome Shell? [duplicate]

I have installed the GNOME Shell Theming extension and enabled it in the gnome-tweak-tool. I have installed some themes in my ~/.themes folder but still I cannot select any shell themes. How can I ...
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Where are theme customizations in 11.10? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I change the theme? I upgraded, and now I need to tweak my fonts for the Ambiance theme - and I can't find anyplace to do it - in fact, the whole preview dialog for ...
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How do I make a theme have SQUARE instead of ROUND windows?

How can I make my favorite theme (i.e, Orta) have square instead of rounded window corners?
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Default Dark Mode not fully working on Ubuntu 22.10

I'm trying to use default dark mode on Ubuntu 22.10, however widgets on the top bar (GNOME panel) remain on light mode. I tried Tweak but even with that I couldn't fix it. Note: I have been upgrading ...
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What is the right way to write a .desktop file to launch app with a specific theme on Ubuntu 18.04?

My system is Ubuntu 18.04. I want to start corebird with a specific theme from a .desktop file. So I created a .desktop file with this exec line: Exec=env GTK_THEME=mytheme corebird But corebird ...
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Gnome theme install launcher

I'm trying to install this theme so that it looks like the screenshot: https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1171688/ The theme has a launcher at the bottom and custom icons to go with it. When I install the ...
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Grey bar appears when installed plank dock

I installed Ubuntu 16.04 and installed XFCE desktop environment right away. And then installed numix theme and icon pack. Then I installed plank. After installation a grey bar appears. When plank is ...
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How to set the new Suru Dark theme as default theme in Ubuntu Touch?

How to turn an Ubuntu Touch device into the new Suru Dark instead of the default Ambiance theme to have a black and energy saving user interface?
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How do i install zukitwo?

I found the theme here: http://lassekongo83.deviantart.com/art/Zukitwo-203936861 I went in here: https://github.com/lassekongo83/zuki-themes Downloaded everything and I also did: sudo apt-get ...
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Full dark theme for eclipse Luna in Ubuntu 14.04

I read this question : Why is Eclipse Luna dark theme ugly? And i followed what guari told us to do. I create a dark.sh in a same directory with eclipse executeable. This is the code : #!/bin/bash ...
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installing theme manually

I am using Ubuntu 14.04. I found a great theme I would really like and downloaded it. It is in a zip file and I cannot figure out how to install it. I tried the /usr/shared/themes but it tells me I ...
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How can I use the default theme from 12.10 in 12.04?

I really like the changes that was made to the default theme in 12.10. However 12.10 keeps on loosing the ability to see my braodcom wifi card and I am experiencing a lot of graphical glitches as well....
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How do I change GTK theme of my app in run time?

I recently noticed that monodevelop, can change GTK theme in runtime . How do I add it in my quickly app?
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How can I reset the GNOME Shell theme for the main account from the guest account?

I tried out a GNOME Shell theme from gnome-look.org on my main account/login user. The theme must be broken because it won't load, and crashes that login. I am currently on the guest account. Is there ...
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Need suggestion for working Xubuntu theme

I just installed Xubuntu. Everything works fine except the window manager theme is broken (the border is only 1 px wide which makes it almost impossible to resize a window with my touchpad). The other ...
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Make Gnome more traditional?

I've used Ubuntu since the earlier days, if you look me up in the Forums you'll see I joined pretty quickly. All that is to say that I started with the traditional Gnome 2.x interface that Ubuntu ...
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My ubuntu theme is looking weird

I was using Ubuntu normally until it froze, and I had to reboot. Then it started looking like the screen shot below. Is there a way to go back to the original, friendly theme? I'm using the 20.04 LTS ...
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Can you guess which DE's theme does my windows use? And how to recover my Ubuntu to fully use the GNOME theme?

I've recently uninstalled the Deepin Desktop Evironment (DDE) from my Ubuntu 20.04 LTS system, and now I'm using a strange theme that looks more like Arch/Kali Linux: How can I restore the stock ...
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Gimp "Dark" theme - can't see menus with KDE Plasma

I installed KDE Plasma 5.18.5 on standard Ubuntu 20.04, and I'm enjoying it. However, something is badly wrong with the colors of Gimp (I've always used Gimp's Dark theme). Maybe I also have some KDE ...
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My /usr/share/themes Folder Got Deleted?

**Hi I am Keval ** My /usr/share/themes Folder Got Deleted. how can I restore them again and I have also restarted the pc 3 times Thankyou In Advance Keval Shah
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How to make snap apps use my gtk theme?

Snap now has GTK theming support - wonderful! So I just installed a snap app but when I opened it - it was using the Adwaita theme instead of my default Ubuntu 20.04 Yaru theme. I looked around and ...
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How can I install the Dracula theme for Ubuntu on Windows 10?

I love the Dracula theme and it's available for Windows terminal, but I'm not sure what the Ubuntu terminal for WSL is using. How can I install a theme file for it?
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Tried to change Xubuntu theme, but font looks weird (gtk3)

I tried multiple themes, and installed them using pling store. All of them are supposedly compatible with gtk3, which apparently is the one I have installed $ dpkg -s libgtk-3-0|grep '^Version' | ...
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Evince Document Viewer theme parssing error causes invisible GUI when custom GTK-3 theme is in symlink

Getting following error when replacing the .themes folder in $HOME with a symbolic link pointing to content on a mounted drive: (evince:28717): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:21:16.921: Theme parsing error: gtk....
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Custom sound theme for Ubuntu 19.04

I am using Ubuntu 19.04 with the default GNOME desktop. The Yaru theme is too quiet and I am trying to add some sound files to a new folder I created: /usr/share/sounds/MyTheme. The problem is, I am ...
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Change tooltip text color of Ubuntu Vimix theme

I am on Ubuntu Budgie 18.10 and trying to adjust the colors of the Vimix theme. Especially, I want to change the foreground and background (text) colors of the tooltip popups. Editing the GTK3 css ...
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Grub theme terminal-box appearing, why?

So I downloaded a grub theme off of gnome-look.org and it works amazingly well! The only thing I don't understand about it is why after selecting what to boot into, a black box resembling a terminal(...
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Ubuntu 18.10: How do I get the old icons back

Ubuntu 18.10 added in new icons and a new GTK theme. However I prefer the old icons and GTK theme. Is it possible to get the icons and ambience theme from Ubuntu 18.04 into 18.10?
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Is it possible to have different desktop sessions each with different settings?

In this situation, I have a default Ubuntu session with the Paper and Materia Theme, and a Communitheme session. The problem is, I want the default Ubuntu session to use the themes I chose for it, and ...
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Plasma shows themes, etc. as installed, though they are not and vice versa

Running Kubuntu 17.04. When I try to get new desktop themes, etc. there is a mismatch between what system settings show and what get new things dialog shows. The get new things dialog shows several ...
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Theme installation numix (local installation)

I was trying to figure out how to install a popular theme called "Numix". The thing was I wanted to install it locally, without adding a ppa, .deb file, etc. I found out how to do so (thanks to you ...
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Make Gedit embedded terminal colors match global theme? (16.04)

The embedded terminal of Gedit in my 16.04 session is not following the default ubuntu theme, and does not seem to be configurable in any way. More precisely, it follows the username@hostname color ...
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Adding a mac-like theme/skin to Ubuntu [duplicate]

I am very fond of macbooks so I wanted to revamp my Ubuntu to look like a mac desktop. Please suggest a suitable theme/skin with minimum bugs.
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gnome-tweak-tool is missing the window option

One ubuntu setup looks the following way in gnome-tweak-tool: I'm customizing a new machine, but the "Window" option is no longer available: The first image is from Ubuntu 14.04, and second is ...
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Any help on installing themes for Conky?

I'm trying to install a theme for Conky, but the instructions are unclear. It says to put .conky-vision-icons and .conkyrc into the ~ directory. But where is ~? I have unhid the folders but there's ...
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