How to keep our Gnome 3 themes updated automatically

Luigys Toro

2 minutes

GNOME 3 is a beautiful and widely used desktop environment for Linux , and it comes as the default desktop in many major distributions. This time, we bring you a script that will allow you to customize your GNOME desktop environment quickly, efficiently, and automatically. This script includes more than 20 GNOME 3 themes that install their latest versions with a single command and keep them updated with each run.

Hopefully you enjoy Install GNOME themes, a script that is very efficient and will help us save many hours when testing and installing a large number of Genome 3 themes.

How does Install GNOME Themes work?

Install GNOME Themes is an open-source script, developed with shell by Tal Liron , that allows us to install the latest versions of various Gnome themes from GitHub. When you run the script, it installs various themes and keeps them updated, all in a safe, fast, and automated way.

This script is compatible with GNOME versions 3.18 to 3.24, it automatically detects your GNOME version and installs the themes compatible with your operating system. This is why it is important that after each update of the desktop environment the script to update the theme packages is run again.

To select one of the installed themes, just run the GNOME Tweak Tool and go to the Appearance tab.

If you already have themes with the same name installed in your folder .themesthe script will replace them so it is important to have a backup copy of the folder in case you don't want them replaced.

How to install the Install GNOME Themes script

To install and use this great script we must open a console and execute the following commands

git clone https://github.com/tliron/install-gnome-themes ~/install-gnome-themes
~/install-gnome-themes/install-gnome-themes

To keep the script updated with the latest version, let's run the following commands:

cd ~/install-gnome-themes
git pull

Run the script every so often to keep the relevant topics up to date.

Themes supported by Install GNOME Themes

This script is compatible according to its developers with more than 20 themes that we detail below:


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