Themes for gnome-shell 3.0 not working in gnome-shell 3.2

It looks like all my gnome-shell-theme-xxxx-1.0 packages does not work in gnome-shell 3.2.
If you use them then gnome-shell will hang if you are doing a search in the overview.
the atolm & smooth-inset has been updated by upstream and I have updated the packages.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnome-shell-theme-smooth-inset-3.2-1.fc16
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnome-shell-theme-atolm-3.2-1.fc16

If you can't wait for them to hit the repositories, you can find updated rpms here.
There is also 3 new ones not in Fedora (Yet)

 

 

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gnome-shell themes (part2)

I have extended the theme selector by F. P. Murphy to show more themes in the overview and to show system wide themes.



Download the rpm here

Install it with (as root)

yum install gnome-shell-extensions-theme-selector-0.9-2.fc15.noarch.rpm

the package no longer contains any themes, but i have made separate rpm packages for many great themes made by half-left.

The theme rpm's can also be used with the latest version of gnome-tweak-tool (3.0.4) (Not in fedora yet, but i have an rpm here)

the theme-selector extension cant reset to the default theme, this can be dome by running

gsettings reset org.gnome.shell.extensions.user-theme name

 

here are review requests for getting the packages into fedora.

• gnome-shell-extensions-theme-selector


• gnome-shell-theme-ubuntu-ambiance


• gnome-shell-theme-tron-legacy


• gnome-shell-theme-smooth-inset


• gnome-shell-theme-orta


• gnome-shell-theme-gaia


• gnome-shell-theme-deviantart


• gnome-shell-theme-atolm

Feel free to review the packages :)

 

 

 

 

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Playing with Gnome shell themes

A while ago stumbled over a blog with a lot of info about gnome-shell extensions.

Frank Murphy has made an theme selector extension to easy preview and select some great gnome-shell themes done by half-Left

After some testing of this great extension I have some packages for Fedora 15 to make it easier to install and test.

You just have to do this (as root):

yum install http://timlau.fedorapeople.org/files/packages/theme-selector/gnome-shell-extensions-theme-selector-0.9-1.fc15.noarch.rpm --nogpg

then run (as your normal user):

theme-selector-setup

there will link the included themes into ~/.themes.
Then you need to press ALT-F2 and type r to restart the gnome-shell and you are up and running.

Now you can activate the Overview an select the Themes button to show the theme-selector page and start to select new themes.

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Gnome 3 tweeks

Gnome 3 got a lot of beating lately because of the we know what is best for you attitude.

But even if there is no gui to help the customization, here are some hints.

Get the Blue fedora icons back:

yum install fedora-icon-theme (as root)
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme Fedora

Get the windows buttons back

gconftool-2 -s -t string /desktop/gnome/shell/windows/button_layout "menu:minimize,maximize,close"

gsettings list-keys org.gnome.desktop.interface

Will list other options to play with, like font-name there is setting the default font & size

 

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My Fedora 15 Alpha RC1 Installation

I have just updated my Fedora 15 RC1 test installation with the latest Gnome 2.91.90 packages.
First is was struck by this error, but after downloading and installing some updated packages from Koji, I was up and running.

Here is some screenshots, There is a little special feature on my system, see if you can find it :)

[gallery link="file" columns="2" orderby="title"]

The button launcher is not part of Gnome3, it is docky :)

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Gnome3 power setting

There have been written a lot about the missing GUI option to set the default lid close action in Gnome3 and I am one of those users there have a laptop where suspend will going into doom (actually is not suspend there is the problem but resume :) ). This is not a a gnome3 issue but my issue, because I close the lid many time a day when the laptop is doing some work and I do something else.

The sad part is that Fedora will be one of the first distributions to use gnome3 as default and it will take the beating for choices made upstream.

What there not have been written a lot about, is how to change the lid default action, so here  it comes

Setting Laptop lid close action on ac:

gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/gnome-power-manager/buttons/lid_ac "<setting>"

<setting> ::= nothing|blank|suspend|hibernate|shutdown

Setting Laptop lid close action on battery:

gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/gnome-power-manager/buttons/lid_battery "<setting>"

<setting> ::= nothing|blank|suspend|hibernate|shutdown

Edit:

In Fedora 15 alpha you have to use

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-ac-action "<setting>"

and

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-battery-action "<setting>"

Update:

Here is a shell script to easy change the settings, just run an select from the gui. It was kindly contributed by Kevin DeKorte

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