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How To Change Themes In Ubuntu 20.10 [2021]

A brief guide on how to change themes in Ubuntu 20.10.

Hello Everyone, In this ultimate guide, you will learn how to change themes in Ubuntu. So I kindly request you to stay until the end of the post, so you don’t encounter any bugs or problems while changing themes in Ubuntu.

How To Change Themes In Ubuntu 20.10 By The Techier.

Most people like to change the default User Interface to something clean and modern, but most do not know how to do it.

Nobody knows anything when they start learning something, so don’t worry; I am here to help you learn How to change themes in Ubuntu 20.10. I will try to make it as simple as I can :)

You can video also watch this video to learn How to change themes in Ubuntu.

We will divide this Ultimate Guide into 3 Steps, they are:-

1. Installing the Gnome Tweaks.
2. Downloading the desired theme.
3. Applying the theme.

So what is Gnome Tweaks:-

Gnome Tweaks is tool that lets us tweak the default themes, icons, cursor, extensions and a lot more with ease.

So, let’s get started with how to change themes in Ubuntu.

Step 1: Installing the Gnome Tweaks:-

Note: Make sure that you install Gnome Tweaks because installing Gnome Tweaks is compulsory no matter whether you only want to change the Ubuntu theme, the icons, or the cursor. This tool helps you quickly switch between different themes, icons, and cursor.

So let’s see how to install Gnome Tweaks.

To install Gnome Tweaks, open your terminal (Quick Tip: Press ‘ctrl+alt+t’ together to open the terminal) and type the following command, as shown in the image below.

sudo apt-get install gnome-tweaks

Installing Gnome Tweaks.

Now, when you have Gnome Tweaks installed on your Ubuntu, you are ready to install and change the themes, the icons, and the cursor.

Step 2: Downloading the desired theme.:-

To change themes in Ubuntu, we need to download Ubuntu themes from the INTERNET.

There are many websites where you can download cool themes from but which I use is Gnome Look. Gnome Look does not only have themes but also everything you need to customize your Ubuntu interface.

Gnome Look: https://www.gnome-look.org

First, go to Gnome Look and head over to the ‘GTK3 Themes’ section on the left-hand side, as shown below.

Click on the GTK3 section on Gnome Look.

You’ll find thousands of cool themes when you go there. Choose the theme you like and download that. I have chosen a Ubuntu theme named Kimi, which is super cool and clean. It looks something like this:-

Kimi Theme by eliverlara

If you like this theme, you can get it here: http://bit.ly/3861bZf

Now, download the theme by click on the download button.

Download the theme.

Step 3: Applying the theme:-

After downloading the desired theme, open the downloaded theme’s file location and extract that file by right-clicking on the file and clicking on ‘Extract here’ as shown below.

Extract the downloaded theme.

If you have extracted the downloaded theme, open your terminal and type the following command in the terminal as shown below (This will open ‘Files’ with root privileges).

sudo nautilus

Open Files with root privileges.

Now, once you have the Files with root privileges, go to ‘usr/share/themes’ as shown below.

Go to ‘usr/share/themes.’

Now, drag and drop the extracted theme folder to ‘usr/share/themes’ as shown below in the image.

Drag and drop the extracted theme folder to ‘usr/share/themes.’

Our theme is installed now. We need to apply it.

Now close everything and open Gnome Tweaks, and head over to the ‘Appearance’ section, and choose the theme you installed (Kimi, in my case) in the Application’s row as shown below.

Apply the theme.

Congratulations!, that’s literally it; it’s that easy 😃. Now you know how to change themes in Ubuntu. You can use this method to install any Application theme (Ubuntu theme) in Ubuntu or a similar gnome environment desktop.

By the way, have a look at my clean Ubuntu theme:-

Kimi Theme — It’s so clean 😃

Thank you for being with me. 😃