5 Cool Themes for Unity/Gnome Shell in Ubuntu/Linux Mint/Fedora

By Umair Monday, February 13, 2012




You can install these themes easily in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin/Ubuntu 11.10 Oneirc Ocelot/Linux Mint.

1: Zukitwo Colors Theme
This theme set contains GTK2, GTK3 and GNOME Shell themes in all 7 colours from Shiki-Colors (Brave, Dust, Human, Illustrious, Noble, Wine and Wise), as well as a colour-neutral GNOME Shell theme (Zukitwo-Colors) and Metacity/Mutter and XFWM themes for Dust (Zukitwo-Dust) and the rest (Zukitwo-Colors). (Zukitwo-Dust has separate Metacity/Mutter and XFWM themes as part of its colour-scheme.)


To install this theme open Terminal and enter command:
mkdir ~/.themes
wget -O zukitwo-colors http://goo.gl/QNt1b
tar -xzvf zukitwo-colors.tar.gz -C ~/.themes


2: ANew Start Theme
ANewStart suite is a slick, clear theme for GNOME desktop environment.
It's designed to work under Gnome-Shell, Gnome-Fallback and Unity. For Unity and Gnome-Fallback mode, please read the README file inside the pack.



To install this theme open Terminal and enter command:
mkdir ~/.themes
wget -O anewstart http://goo.gl/Mk67J
unzip anewstart.zip -d ~/.themes


3: ANew Start Blood Theme
ANewStartBlood is the first attempt to port ANewStart guidelines in a dark fashion. Since the choices done here (this "bloodiness" that pervades all the theme) are surely tough to digest, maybe I'll plan another more easy-going version.


To install this theme open Terminal and enter command:
mkdir ~/.themes
wget -O anewstartblood http://goo.gl/SJi9x
unzip anewstartblood.zip -d ~/.themes


4: Adwaita Cupertino Theme
Tested in GNOME 3.2 and Unity.
There are 2 versions, one based on the colors of Snow Leopard and the other Lion. Option border or border-less.



To install this theme open Terminal and enter command:
mkdir ~/.themes
wget -O adwaita-cupertino http://goo.gl/UGXOA
tar -xzvf adwaita-cupertino.tar.gz -C ~/.themes


5: Gnomish Dark Theme
This is a clean dark theme for GTK3, based on Adwaita (provided by gnome-themes-standard), plus a matching GNOME-Shell theme.
The package also includes a GTK2 theme, that depends on the latest Murrine engine and makes GTK2 windows fairly similar to GTK3 ones. If you don't want to install Murrine anymore, you could replace the folder 'gtk-2.0' with that of Adwaita but you'll lose the above-mentioned similarity.

To install this theme open Terminal and enter command:
mkdir ~/.themes
wget -O GnomishDark http://goo.gl/wVTmb
tar -xjvf GnomishDark.tar.bz2 -C ~/.themes


To change Themes use Ubuntu Tweak.

Enjoy
Umair

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3 comments to ''5 Cool Themes for Unity/Gnome Shell in Ubuntu/Linux Mint/Fedora"

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  1. On ubuntu 12.04 terminal:
    mkdir ~/.themes
    wget -O zukitwo-colors http://goo.gl/QNt1b

    ran OK
    But I got the following output
    nemo@ariadne:~$ tar -xzvf zukitwo-colors.tar.gz -C ~/.themes
    tar (child): zukitwo-colors.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
    tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
    tar: Child returned status 2
    tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now


    Please advise on next step (if there is one) and exactly how are the themes installed on gnome

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  2. Oh! Just replace by: tar -xzvf zukitwo-colors -C ~/.themes

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