Customizing Gnome Desktop_weixin

Customizing desktop is really an amazing thing. You sees many images with beautiful looking KDE, GNOME and cinnamon desktops. sometimes, you also want to customize your desktop and make it looking beautiful. That’s why I have written this article.

If you are a GNOME user but also love garuda Linux or just its neon theme and icon pack. So, this post is for you. In this article I am going to give my gnome desktop the neon look as possible as it could. So, read this article till end because it’s gonna fulfill your desire.

Installing gnome-tweak-tool

Gnome tweak tool is an application which let’s you customize your desktop themes, icons, cursors, shell and much more.

Every customizations, that gonna be happen in this article is through the gnome-tweak-tool.

Installation

Debian
```
sudo apt install gnome-tweak-tool
```
Arch
```
sudo pacman -S gnome-tweaks
```
Fedora:
```
sudo dnf install gnome-tweak-tool
```

Enabling “User Themes” extension

First, open your gnome-tweak tool and go to the extensions section. If it has the User Themes extension listed and enabled, then you can skip this step and go to the next step.

If you don’t see any extension with that name, Please read this section carefully.

gnome-shell-integration extension

user-themes extension

Now, you have to go to this web page and add the GNOME Shell integration extension in you web browser and enable the user theme extension which will be listed as the first extension at that web page. once you enabled this extension move to the next step.

Downloading Theme, Icon pack and Cursor

To download the required theme, icons and cursors, please follow these instructions carefully.

The theme, icon pack and cursors i am using here are as follows:

Theme : Sweet-Dark
Icons : BeautyLine
Cursors : Future-cyan-cursors

Now, its time to download these things in our system.

First, you have to go to this web page and download the theme. make sure it is Sweat-Dark theme. once you downloaded and extracted this theme, you will need to move this theme to the .theme directory of the home directory.

Note: This directory is usually hidden from users and can only be seen by enabling “show hidden files” option in your Files application.

Downloading Theme If you are still not seeing any directory with .theme name. You will have to create one and then move that extracted theme into this directory.
Downloading icons Now, we will download a beautiful icon. To download the icons go to this web page and download the icon pack. Make sure it is BeautyLine icon pack.

Once you downloaded and extracted this icon pack, you will need to move this icon pack to the .icon directory of the home directory.

Downloading Cursors You have to follow the same steps to download the cursors. Go to this web page and download the cursors. Make sure it is Future-cyan-cursors. Once downloaded and extracted, again move this cursor pack to the .icons directory which is usually placed in the home directory.

If you have downloaded required theme, icon and cursor. It’s time to apply those themes to the gnome desktop. And this is really the easiest step of the whole process.

Now, open your gnome-tweak-tool and go to the appearance section and choose the Sweet-Dark option for applications, BeautyLine for icons, Future-cyan-cursors for cursor and Sweet-Dark for Shell.

After doing so, you may feel the changes in you gnome desktop.

One customization is still left!

If you wanna change you top-window-panel. Go to the extensions section in your tweak tool and click the settings icon beside the User Theme option and choose the Sweet-Dark option.

If such options are not appearing, there may be some problem in placing downloaded files. Follow the above steps carefully again and if you still facing such problem email me you problem. I will try to solve you problem as quickly as I could.