It's not that I want to be closer to the default GNOME look and feel -
it's that Ubuntu has changed the system theme to one that clashes with
dark themes (like Yaru dark). The default gnome system theme works with
both light and dark themes.
Is gnome-session the same as the ubuntu session except
I'm closing this, as Frederik told, there are multiple ways of achieving
that, and not that no other way is supported upstream, in GNOME Shell.
If you want another way, please open the issue on the GNOME Shell
upstream gitlab issue tracker.
You would note that you can do it:
- via the user-themes
I'm just trying to make Ubuntu better. I'd like to stay as close as
possible to the default Ubuntu experience instead of switching to a more
pure gnome-session, and I'm saying that it would make it easier for
users to select a consistent theme if Ubuntu included the Adwaita gnome-
shell as an
But you still need the user-themes extension. If you install it, you
switch to the themes installed.
If you want to use the upstream gnome style experience I would suggest
using the other session for this:
sudo apt install gnome-session
Then reboot and select the gnome session from the context
Actually, I think the issue is more that there are no gnome-shell theme
options shipping with Ubuntu. You shouldn't need to install user themes
in order to get a consistent experience, and setting up a consistent
theme appears to be quite hard for the average user in 18.10.
One easy solution (for
Hi there,
you selected the application theme. This does not change the shell
theme. As you said you need to switch the shell theme, too. This can not
be done without the user-themes extension.
Thus I would suggest to close this, since it is not an unexpected/bugged
behaviour.
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I think the issue is that Yaru redefines the system gnome-shell theme,
and none of the themes in /usr/share/themes have gnome-shell themes in
them, so all themes inherit the new Yaru gnome-shell theme.
A workaround is to enable user themes (eg see
