Installation:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:satyajit-happy/themes

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-theme-elegance-colors

gnome-shell-theme-elegance-colors

glib2-devel gtk3-devel vala

make

sudo make install





Setup:

A process runs in background which detects changes, generates the theme and reloads the theme accordingly. After installation, you must run the following command to start the background process,



elegance-colors



To set the theme, run the following commands,



gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.user-theme name 'elegance-colors'



You can launch the GUI from the menu which lets you customise various aspects of the the theme. You can also export your customized theme, import/export settings from the GMenu. Click on the title in the Gnome Shell top bar to get the GMenu.



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Troubleshooting:



It is recommended to stop any previous instances of elegance-colors when updating to a new version. You can kill running processes of elegance-colors with the command,



killall elegance-colors



To view any error messages produced, run the process in Terminal,



elegance-colors start



To manually apply changes, run,



elegance-colors apply



If your theme fails to apply after an upgrade, it is likely that the config file doesn't include new options. To update the config file, run,



elegance-colors update



To export the theme, run,



elegance-colors export /path/to/themefile.zip



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Code:



Code and documentation:



Bugs and feature requests:



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Credits: Thanks to Alin Andrei



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License: GPL-3.0+ A process runs in background which detects changes, generates the theme and reloads the theme accordingly. After installation, you must run the following command to start the background process,To set the theme, run the following commands,You can launch the GUI from the menu which lets you customise various aspects of the the theme. You can also export your customized theme, import/export settings from the GMenu. Click on the title in the Gnome Shell top bar to get the GMenu.---It is recommended to stop any previous instances of elegance-colors when updating to a new version. You can kill running processes of elegance-colors with the command,To view any error messages produced, run the process in Terminal,To manually apply changes, run,If your theme fails to apply after an upgrade, it is likely that the config file doesn't include new options. To update the config file, run,To export the theme, run,---Code and documentation: github.com/satya164/elegance-c… Bugs and feature requests: github.com/satya164/elegance-c… ---Credits: Thanks to Alin Andrei www.webupd8.org and Brian Bentsen bimsebasse.deviantart.com/ for their valuable suggestions and testing.---License: GPL-3.0+

Elegance Colors is a highly customizable chameleon theme for Gnome Shell. It can change colors according to the current GTK theme, current wallpaper (uses imagemagick to get color) or use a user defined color.Currently Elegance Colors supports Gnome Shell 3.6 to 3.14.---Ubuntu users can install Elegance Colors from our themes PPA using the following commands,Fedora and OpenSUSE users can add the appropriate repo from opensuse build service - download.opensuse.org/reposito… and install the packagevia the distro's package manager.Arch Linux users can install Elegance Colors from aur - aur.archlinux.org/packages/gno… If you use another distro, you need to compile from source. This is needed for the GUI.Don't worry, it is easy and straight forward.You need to install the build-dependencies first (package names may vary depending on your distro),Extract the archive, navigate to the directory and type the following commands in a terminal,To derive color from wallpaper, you need to install ImageMagick.Also install the User Theme Extension for Gnome Shell extensions.gnome.org/extension…