Themes not visible in Unity Tweak Tool

Question

THIS is the theme I'd like to install. What I've done so far:

1. Extracted Dark-Aurora folder from the archive.
2. Copied that folder to ~/usr/share/themes.
3. Created /home/[user-name]/.themes folder and copied Dark-Aurora there too.
4. Opened Unity Tweak Tool, clicked on Theme.
5. Only the three default themes (Ambiance, Highcontrast and Radiance) are there). Dark-aurora is nowhere to be found.

So what am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance.

Solution

After extracting the archive, you'll find Aurora and Dark Aurora folders there. You have to put them in either ~/.local/share/themes or /usr/share/themes directory.

However, I saw that they don't appear in Unity Tweak Tool. The solution is using Gnome Tweak Tool to set the theme.

To install it -

sudo apt install gnome-tweak-tool

Open and set the theme from Appearance Section.

Update after further information It appeared OP's .local folder was owned by root. To get the ownership use sudo chown -r your-user-name ~/.local before copying the theme folder. Then use cp without using sudo.

Comments

[xangua]

Not sure why wouldn't show, but I'm pretty sure you wouldn't like the results of a gtk 3.16 theme on gnome 3.20 anyways, assuming you're using Ubuntu 16.04.

[You'reAGitForNotUsingGit]

Did the theme come with a readme.txt?

[Anwar]

Remove from one location. Also let me know what is the contents of /usr/share/themes/Dark-Aurora?

[Hichigaya Hachiman]

Dark-Aurora has gnome-shell folder inside so I assumed it would be compatible with Gnome.

[Hichigaya Hachiman]

Inside Dark-Aurora there are the following folders: gnome-shell, gtk-2.0, gtk-3.0 and index.theme file.

[Hichigaya Hachiman]

sudo cp -r Downloads/Dark-Aurora/ ~/.local/share/themes/Dark-aurora but still it is not shown in GTT.

[Anwar]

@HichigayaHachiman I didn't get you. I said in the answer that since this theme is incompatible, it will not be shown in Unity Tweak tool. But Gnome tweak tool will show it. Also, you don't need sudo. remove the folder by going to ~/.local/share/themes/ and paste them as normal user

[Hichigaya Hachiman]

GTT = Gnome Tweak Tool. And I can't access ./local wihout root access.

[Anwar]

If you cant access .local in your home, that means you have lost ownership of that folder and did bad things. You need to do sudo chown -r your-user-name ~/.local first

[Hichigaya Hachiman]

Good lord it worked. Yes, claiming ownership of those folders made the themes available.

[Anwar]

@HichigayaHachiman you should have told me that way before. good that it worked. basically nothing in your home folder should be owned by root