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How to customize gnome Desktop Environment.

I think every Linux users know about Gnome Desktop Environment because Gnome DE is very popular among all Desktop Environments. The look of Gnome DE is very simple and it's very easy to use.

But If you want to make yourDE more beautiful then follow my this blog I will show you how to customize your DE with some easy tweaks.


First of all, you need to install gnome-tweak-tool-

For Debian/Ubuntu users-

# apt install gnome-tweak-tool

For CentOS/Fedora users-

# yum install gnome-tweak-tool

For Arch/Slack users-

# pacman -S gnome-tweak-tool


Now open the tweak tool from application launcher and now you can customize so many options, for example, you can customize your themes, shells, top bar & icons.



But right now you can change your themes and icons in limited options if you want to add more themes and icon themes in your library then open the following site in your browser-



First of all, I'm going to show you how to add and change themes in gnome DE.

Open this website and search and download gtk2/gtk3 themes from the website. After downloading you will get compressed files and now extract that file and paste it inside /usr/share/themes by typing this command.

# cp ~/Downloads/file /usr/share/themes


After copying this file open gnome-tweak-tool and click on the new theme you will get a new effect.


Now I'll show you how to change the gnome-shell theme. Open this website again and search and download for gnome-shell theme from the website and extract that file and then paste it inside /usr/share/themes.

# cp ~/Downloads/file /usr/share/themes


After completing this process open tweak-tool again and change the shell theme.


In the last, I'm going to show you how to change icon themes in gnome DE. Open the website again and search & download icon themes from the website. After downloading extract that file and paste it inside /usr/share/icons.

# cp ~/Downloads/file /usr/share/icons


After this open tweak-tool again and select a new icon theme and enjoy it.


I hope you will love this blog. If you have any doubts then comments down or you can mail me Johntheh4cker.


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Thank You.

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