Is my Gnome theme extension not working as intended?

[Corbalte]

Hi everyone,

I was trying to install new Gnome shells, icons and such following this tutorial : Make GNOME Beautiful with Custom Themes! - YouTube

I followed the steps, even remembered doing that on Manjaro with no problem, but here it seems not to be working. I cannot select new shells whatsoever. I only have the default one. I tried reinstalling Gnome Theme, to not effect. And opening Gnome Tweaks trough the terminal showed no errors.

I also noticed that my Gnome Tweaks are not the same as in the video tutorial (I’m missing tabs such as the extension one), so maybe I need to follow a different procedure ? My gnome Themes also only has the only option the change themes (not the ones I tried to install should I precise), with no additional preferences to tweak.

This might be me not realizing something obvious, I hope you can help me.

Thanks a lot !

[fbodymechanic]

Did you set up the user themes extension already?

[Corbalte]

Yes, or so it seems to me :

But again, I may be missing something. It seems my Gnome Theme doesn’t have any parameters tweaks an I cannot see if it’s working through the Tweak menu since I’m missing an extension tab.

[pebcak]

@Corbalte

I tried reinstalling Gnome Theme, to not effect.

How do you install new shell themes?

@Corbalte

I’m missing an extension tab.

There is no extension tab in Tweaks anymore. The extensions are moved to a separate app: Extensions.

[Corbalte]

Oh my bad, I got newbie confused and said shell while really thinking about themes.

Ok that’s why it’s not the same as in the video. Would there be a way for me to check trough terminal if gnome-themes is working as intended ?

[Corbalte]

I noticed something that hints at the problem. When I change my setups within the Gnome Themes parameters, with the extension app, Gnome tweaks doesn’t show up the new themes :

Actually, Gnome Tweaks only proposes me Arc and Arc-dark and nothing else, but it should propose me more default themes coming along Gnome Themes. I’m scratching my head as to why. Is there a way to mess up Gnome Theme installation like this ? I tried reinstalling it but it stays the same.

[Corbalte]

Well I have to admit this one was simply me fucking up and simply extracting the downloaded themes files from the archives… But I needed to put the files within the main files in the .themes file…

Everything seems to actually be working fine and I’m sorry to have taken your time for this.