- Configure Arch Linux Themes with GNOME tweaks
- How do I install tweaks on Arch Linux?
- Is Arch Linux good for beginners?
- How do I get rid of Gnome Arch?
- What is Gnome settings daemon?
- How do I enable Gnome Shell themes?
- How do I customize my Gnome desktop?
- How do I change my Gnome settings?
- How do I enable Wayland on the arch?
- Where is Gnome settings?
- Configure Arch Linux Themes with GNOME tweaks
- How to Install GNOME tweak tool
- Launch the GNOME tweak tool
- Switch between the light/dark theme
- Change Wallpaper background
- Show/ hide the power status
- Show the title bar buttons
- Enable/disable animations
- Launch applications upon boot
- Change to a different font
- Have the desktop icons appear
- Wrapping up
- About the author
- Younis Said
- Arch Linux User Repository
- chrisjbillington commented on 2022-04-07 23:07 (UTC) (edited on 2022-04-07 23:09 (UTC) by chrisjbillington)
- Gio commented on 2022-04-07 19:13 (UTC)
- esaporski commented on 2021-08-09 13:40 (UTC) (edited on 2021-08-09 14:07 (UTC) by esaporski)
- chrisjbillington commented on 2021-07-15 23:30 (UTC) (edited on 2021-07-15 23:31 (UTC) by chrisjbillington)
- Remedan commented on 2021-07-15 18:12 (UTC)
- chrisjbillington commented on 2021-07-13 04:15 (UTC)
- JoveYu commented on 2021-07-13 01:20 (UTC)
- chrisjbillington commented on 2021-07-08 05:15 (UTC)
- chrisjbillington commented on 2021-06-12 09:28 (UTC)
Configure Arch Linux Themes with GNOME tweaks
Press Super key (Windows key) and search for GNOME Tweak Tool. Click on it to open it. Now under Appearance section, you should see the options to change icons, applications and shell themes.
How do I install tweaks on Arch Linux?
GNOME Tweak Tool should be installed by default on Arch Linux if you have installed GNOME 3 Desktop Environment. But if it isn’t installed on your Arch machine, it is pretty easy to install it as it is available in the official package repository of Arch Linux. Press y and then press to continue.
Is Arch Linux good for beginners?
Arch Linux is perfect for «Beginners»
Rolling upgrades, Pacman, AUR are really valuable reasons. After just one day using it, I’ve come to realize that Arch is good for advanced users, but also for beginners.
How do I get rid of Gnome Arch?
- Install KDE — sudo pacman -S plasma.
- KDE base by sudo pacman -S kdebase.
- SDDM sudo systemctl enable sddm.service -f.
- Manjaro setting using sudo pacman -S manjaro-kde-settings.
What is Gnome settings daemon?
The GNOME Settings Daemon is responsible for setting various parameters of a GNOME Session and the applications that run under it. . theming: background, icons, gtk+ applications. cleanup of unused files. mouse: cursors, speed, accessibility options.
How do I enable Gnome Shell themes?
- Open Gnome Tweak Tool .
- Click on the Extensions menu item, and move the User themes slider to On .
- Close Gnome Tweak Tool and open it again.
- You should now be able to choose a Shell theme in the Appearance menu.
How do I customize my Gnome desktop?
- Enable Ubuntu for GNOME Extensions. Open Firefox and visit the official GNOME Extension page here. .
- Install GNOME Tweak Tool. To install the GNOME Tweak Tool. .
- Install Extensions. Open the GNOME Extension website. .
- Configure Dash to Panel. .
- Configure Open Weather. .
- Configure Arc Menu. .
- Additional Configurations. .
- Configure Icons.
How do I change my Gnome settings?
- Bring up the GNOME Shell and search for System Settings.
- Here you can change your personal, hardware or system settings. Click on an item to open its settings.
How do I enable Wayland on the arch?
- Install nouveau (run nvidia card)
- Place nouveau into kms module.
- Install wayland, libdrm, pixman, libxkbcommon, python2, libxml2, llvm, libpng, gegl, mtdev.
- Compile and install mesa.
- Compile and install cairo.
- Compile and install weston.
- Reboot.
- weston-launch.
Where is Gnome settings?
The GNOME System Settings panel (gnome-control-center) and GNOME applications use the dconf configuration system to store their settings. You can directly access the dconf database using the gsettings(1) command line tools. This also allows you to configure settings not exposed by the user interfaces.
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Configure Arch Linux Themes with GNOME tweaks
In this post, we will show you how to tweak and customize yourArchLinux themes with a tool called GNOME tweak. You’re probably familiar with GNOME tweak if you’re an advent user of GENOME 3. In case you don’t know anything about GNOME tweak, you’ll see in this tutorial what aspects of it make it a must-have. Following this tutorial, you’ll be able to make changes to the environment and personalize its appearance.
How to Install GNOME tweak tool
Go to the GNOME search bar and type tweak. If the tweak tool doesn’t show up, you’ll need to download it separately.
Load the CLI terminal and type in the following command to update the Pacman package repository:
To download the GNOME tweak tool from the official ArchLinux package repository, and type in the command below:
You’ll be asked permission to proceed. To confirm, press the ‘y’ button and then the enter key.
Launch the GNOME tweak tool
Go to the GNOME 3 search bar and type in “tweak,” and after having it installed, it’ll show up. Click the icon to launch the GNOME tweak tool. It’ll look something like this:
And now, we may finally get to personalizing the interface.
Switch between the light/dark theme
GNOME 3 has the light theme set on by default. You can change to a dark theme from the Appearances tab. Go to the section labeled Applications, which has a list box. Click on the list box and pick a dark theme of your choice.
Change Wallpaper background
Head over to the appearance tab, and in the section headed by the Backgroundlabel, click on the image button to set a wallpaper background of your choice.
Just below is the option to select and customize wallpaper for the lock screen.
Show/ hide the power status
Laptop users can make visible their laptop’s battery percentage. Just head over to the tab labeled ‘top bar‘ and switch the battery percentage option to ON
You should now see the battery displayed on the top right of the title bar.
Show the title bar buttons
You probably didn’t know this, but you can actually have minimized/maximize title bar buttons on GNOME 3, just like in Windows.
Just navigate to the Windows tab, and you’ll see the Maximum and Minimize options. Set each to ON. See the screenshot below for reference:
Also, notice how the buttons are set to appear on the right side of the top bar. You can toggle the option to the left if you want these buttons to appear on the left.
Enable/disable animations
One way to improve the processing speed is to disable the animations to save RAM. The animations are enabled by default, so you’ll need to disable it manually.
Head over to the Appearance tab and set the button in the animations line to OFF.
You will not be displayed animations after this.
Launch applications upon boot
You can add applications to the startup list to launch them automatically upon system boot. Head over to the tab labeled Startup Applications and click the button labeled +. A window will pop up with a list of applications installed on your system.
Select an application you want to start automatically upon boot and click Add.
The window will collapse, and you’ll see that the application you selected has been added to startup. You can add more applications to the startup this way.
Change to a different font
GNOME tweak tool comes with a wide selection of fonts to choose from for the desktop environment.
Click on the fonts tab and then click the button in the Window Title line and select a font of your choice.
The title will become of the font that you just chose. You can set different fonts for interface, documents, and monospace as well.
The tool also allows the configuration of Antialiasing as in the screenshot below:
With the + and – buttons on the Scaling Factor lets you select a size that is suitable for the screen resolution.
Have the desktop icons appear
With the GNOME tweak tool, you can enable the desktop icons that are disabled by default. Just head over to the desktop tab and set the Icons on the desktop button to ON
You should now see icons for home(a folder) and trash(a trash can).
Wrapping up
In this tutorial, you’ve learned how to customize the graphical interface of GNOME 3 with the GNOME tweak toolkit. It is fairly easy to use, and it features a great many options to choose from to personalize how the interface looks on ArchLinux.
That’s all we have for you today. Hopefully, this tutorial was both helpful and easy to follow. Stick around for more posts like this and explore our blog for more Linux tutorials.
About the author
Younis Said
I am a freelancing software project developer, a software engineering graduate and a content writer. I love working with Linux and open-source software.
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Appreciate the work, but wouldn’t it have made more sense to hold off updating the package to the 23.04 release, seeing as Arch is still on Gnome 43? There’s been some shuffling in the new control center of Gnome 44, so 23.04 «bugs out» with Gnome 43.
chrisjbillington commented on 2022-04-07 23:07 (UTC) (edited on 2022-04-07 23:09 (UTC) by chrisjbillington)
@Gio sounds like a problem with your AUR helper. Can you build manually by cloning and running makepkg?
With your AUR helper, I’d recommend clearing its cache, or asking it to cleanbuild the package, if that’s an option.
Gio commented on 2022-04-07 19:13 (UTC)
Hi. When attempting to update from v22.04.1-1 to v22.04.3.1-1 , it shows:
Checking yaru-icon-theme dependencies. Resolving dependencies. Checking inter-conflicts.
Building yaru. ==> ERROR: PKGBUILD does not exist.
esaporski commented on 2021-08-09 13:40 (UTC) (edited on 2021-08-09 14:07 (UTC) by esaporski)
I’m getting an error when trying to install the dependencies:
error: libsass: signature from "Jerome Leclanche " is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libsass-3.6.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] error: sassc: signature from "Jerome Leclanche " is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/sassc-3.6.2-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. error installing repo packages
Edit: Removing some keys and running sudo pacman-key —populate archlinux fixed it.
chrisjbillington commented on 2021-07-15 23:30 (UTC) (edited on 2021-07-15 23:31 (UTC) by chrisjbillington)
@Remedan you’re using eCryptFS? It has a 143 character filename limit.
If you scroll down/click onto the next page of comments, another user had the same issue when this package was using a git commit as the source — the filenames all had a full git hash in them which made them very long.
That’s no longer the case, but there are nontheless filenames bumping up against the limit.
Not a whole lot this PKGBUILD can do about that unless there’s some flags we can pass to whatever component of the build process makes those horrendous filenames, telling it to do something else. Anybody know which build tool is responsible for the .cache___aurutils___sync___yaru___src___ type filenames with slashes replaced with underscores, storing a full path in a single filename?
The underlying issue is that that tool and eCryptFS are not playing nice together, since one breaks the assumptions of the other.
Remedan commented on 2021-07-15 18:12 (UTC)
I’m using aurutils to manager AUR packages. It builds packages in ~/.cache/aurutils/sync . This results in the following error:
ninja: error: stat(gnome-shell/src/___home___remedan___.cache___aurutils___sync___yaru___src___yaru-21.10.1___gnome-shell___src___gnome-shell-sass___widgets____network-dialog.scss): File name too long
A workaround that worked for me is to move ~/.cache/aurutils/sync/yaru under a shorter path and then symlink it back.
chrisjbillington commented on 2021-07-13 04:15 (UTC)
@JoveYu the mixed theme has been removed due to poor toolkit support:
The next version of Ubuntu won’t have it either.
JoveYu commented on 2021-07-13 01:20 (UTC)
this package contains two theme yarn and yarn-dark ,is there a theme using light content and dark title? just like ubuntu default.
chrisjbillington commented on 2021-07-08 05:15 (UTC)
With Yaru tagging 21.10.1, This package is now back to official releases instead of a git commit.
chrisjbillington commented on 2021-06-12 09:28 (UTC)
@coxackie this package is for stable releases generally — it was only pointed at a git commit since no stable release supported gnome 40 yet, but that should be a once off.
Unless it’s actually broken on Arch due to other packages here updating ahead of Yaru’s release cycle (is that the case with gtk4?) I think its best to stick with official releases.
Those who want goodies can use yaru-git 🙂
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