How do I set a theme in Oneiric?

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I'm using Oneiric, and have some default theme set. I understand Unity is using Gtk3, and that the usual Ubuntu themes haven't been ported.

No, Unity is yet to use GTK3,it uses GTK2 hence the theme is broken the default theme is called raleigh, and you would need a GTK3 to be able to apply it as that is what Ubuntu is going to use. — Uri Herrera, Jun 18 '11 at 03:24
http://askubuntu.com/questions/18641/theres-an-issue-with-an-alpha-release-of-ubuntu-what-should-i-do — Jorge Castro, Jun 18 '11 at 04:47
So, once this is rectified, will it reappear? I'm looking at Alpha 3, and getting worried that this is going to be what we're rolling with. — , Aug 16 '11 at 23:55
@CraigM: Me too. It's also appalling that central Ubuntu contributors have closed this question to prevent Ubuntu being criticized. — Matt Joiner, Aug 17 '11 at 02:43
@Matt Joiner: Well, I'm not so worried about the question being criticized, as much as I'd like the assurance that it'll be fixed at some point. That's all. — , Aug 17 '11 at 12:32
As a "future visitor" this question could have helped me, if it were allowed to be updated. It appears there is still no way to change any theme settings in Oneiric, one day before final freeze. — Alistair Buxton, Sep 28 '11 at 23:35

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 18 '11 at 03:56

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Use the gnome-tweak-tool to change your GTK3 theme.

answered Jun 18 '11 at 03:56

Owais Lone

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After the release, this is the only way to do it. No decent settings dialog was shipped in the final release. – Matt Joiner Oct 22 '11 at 13:23
If you don't want to pull all those dependencies you can do the sam e with Ubuntu Tweak. – MeanEYE Dec 24 '11 at 01:06
Right, the new Ubuntu tweak has these settings – Owais Lone Jan 02 '12 at 08:23

htorque · Answer 2 · 2011-06-18T04:02:04.990

Currently:

GTK/Icon/Cursor theme:

Can be set using dconf-editor from the dconf-tools package at the paths:

org.gnome.desktop.interface.gtk-theme
org.gnome.desktop.interface.icon-theme
org.gnome.desktop.interface.cursor-theme

AFAIK there are currently two ports of Ambiance in the works (make sure you have the gtk3-engines-unico package installed):

One from Luca Forina (Lucazade) at https://code.launchpad.net/~lucazade/+junk/ambiance-gtk3. Follow the instructions to get the branch, then copy the gtk-3.0 folder to /usr/share/themes/Ambiance and set the GTK theme to Ambiance.
A second one from Andrea Cimitan (Cimi) which has been merged to the light-themes package - so it's probably the official one. You can find the code here. Again, just download like instructed and move the theme files to /usr/share/themes (move/backup the old ones first).

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