I have a couple of questions:
- How do you change the desktop theme in CentOS?
- How does one download CentOS themes from the internet?
- How do you install them?
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Rui F Ribeiro
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CentOS itself doesn't have themes. Be more specific. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Jan 22 '14 at 11:47
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1Theme for what? Gnome? Boot screen? – jordanm Jan 22 '14 at 11:47
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@jordanm for Gnome – user3021349 Jan 22 '14 at 11:51
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One way of doing this is to install gtk themes under /usr/share/themes or /home/user_name/.themes
Then you can change gtk theme with gtk-chtheme
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in tried under `/usr/share/themes` - `yum install gtk-chtheme-0.3.1-11.el6.i686.rpm` but showing error like no package is available nothing to do – user3021349 Jan 23 '14 at 05:27
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@user3021349 If exist this package under the Centos repos then just run `yum install gtk-chtheme` but If not exist then download [gtk-chtheme](http://pkgs.org/download/gtk-chtheme) after that run into the downloaded folder with root root user `yum localinstall gtk-chtheme-0.3.1-11.el6.i686.rpm` – byrmgcl Jan 23 '14 at 08:10
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You can change your theme under this pull-down in CentOS:
System Settings > Advanced > Desktop Theme Details
Much of the theming infrastructure for GNOME2 is gone, for example: http://art.gnome.org/themes. But this site is still up and maintains icons, backgrounds, etc., for customizing your desktop.
NOTE: You'll want to focus on the GTK2.x content on sites as your encounter anything that is listed as GNOME-specific.
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For newer versions of CentOS, I believe this is for 7.x and newer (I use CentOS 8.3), you can go to your software store and search tweaks then install GNOME tweaks, you will then be able to easily change to themes you have installed in your themes folder eg. /usr/share/themes
In latest versions of CentOS there's no more System Settings > Advanced > there is only Settings with no advanced features. Also, gtk-chtheme is not available under CentOS repos, not even through epel repo.
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