This is a guide on howto modify and tweak Gnome 3.2 Gnome Shell on Fedora 16, easily with application called gnome-tweak-tool, using extensions and themes. With this guide you have two option, install all extensions and themes once or install just extensions and themes what you want to use. There’s a lot of other themes and the extension, but those which are presented in this guide can be installed via the YUM package management, as well as they are of good quality.
Following command installs all Gnome Shell extensions at once
Or alternatively, you could install just selected Gnome Shell extensions with yum.
Following command installs all Gnome Shell themes at once
Installs following themes atolm, dark-glass, elementary, gaia, orta and smooth-inset.
Simply run following command:
Press ALT+F2 -> write r (lower r letter) -> press Enter
On menu it’s called Advanced Settings or on command line write:
Here is screenshots just basic options, like Gnome Shell fonts, Gnome Shell date & time settings, etc.
Advanced Settings (gnome-tweak-tool) Main Screen
Advanced Settings (gnome-tweak-tool) Shell
Advanced Settings (gnome-tweak-tool) Windows
Turn “User Themes Extension” ON and then restart gnome-tweak-tool to enable user themes.
Then you can enable / disable all extensions that you want…
Change User Theme:
Example output:
Example
Gnome Shell – Workspaces menu
Gnome Shell – Classic Gnome 2.x menu
Gnome Shell – Dock
Gnome Shell – Atolm theme
Gnome Shell – Smooth Inset theme
Please let me know if you have some problems with Gnome Shell themes and extensions installation or usage?