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In this customization guide, you will learn how to use Yaru Colors themes pack and install in Ubuntu. How to setup themes, icons, wallpaper and shell theme for Ubuntu.
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If you have recently used Ubuntu or any of its derivatives, then you probably know that
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Ubuntu has recently switched to Nome Dextov environment and it has also switched to a default
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theme known as Yaro. So let me just show you what is Yaro
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So if you go into the settings and if you hit on this appearance section, then you find this
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window here and here you get three options. One is the light option
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what this light option does basically turns everything into white so this is how it works and if you select this standard options this will make the top bar dark and everything will be white and the last one is the dark mode so this is the dark night apprises this will turn everything into dark so this is good for your eyes if you're working late night with your system but these all three themes comes with a one single color that is the theme color or you
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you can say the default color for Ubuntu, their iconic color and it is this one
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So this one you're seeing here, it's looking like some orange. So this is the default color for Ubuntu and it comes with only single variation of it
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So looking at this, some guy in Germany thought like, hey Ubuntu, I've been living in the
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dungeons for months now and you are giving me no choice but your own color
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So what I'm gonna do, I'm not gonna sit back anymore now and I'm going to create my
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own variation of a hero theme so what he did he created a rainbow of colors basically
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for a arrow and he called it yellow colors so this is his repository so if you search online and you will find at repository here So he has made this customized theme or if I say the Yarrow customized team and it has these all colors in it
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And to be precise, these are the all colors that are available in this ERO package
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So this guy, I think his name is Jane and he created this repo here and it not only contains the theme but it also contains the icon packs and
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wallpapers it also comes with install and install script so if you want to automate the stuff
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you can use this script to do that but the thing is this script is kind of dull and it does the job
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but it is dull and and i just really don't like to use this script because it is not doing
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everything by its own you have to provide your inputs there i mean you have to type sometimes
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the path of the installation folder so what we are going to do we are going to do we are going to
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download this whole package from here so if you go to the link given in the description
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you will be able to download it from there and you can download this package from
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here so you can simply go here and download chip and this will start to download
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the speed can be slow because I think this is the free repo and the speed can
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be low but as you can see the speed is pretty good here so it is downloading
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now so after downloading the package file you have to extract it so
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Here is the package file, I can simply right click and extract here
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So now you probably got the idea like Yaro colors provide the different color variations
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of the Yaro theme and it comes with its own icon packs and its wallpapers So this is the folder that I have just extracted So here you can find all the icons So these are the variations of the icons and here are the themes
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So there are a lot of themes here and here are the wallpaper that you can select as for the
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color you choose. So I'm going to add these all into the system and to do that I'm going to open a new tab here
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And if I hit control at here it will show me the hidden folders and you should have two folders
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as hidden one is dot theme folder and dot icons folder I don't have dot icons folder
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so I'm going to create one so if you press control shift and it will show you this pop-up
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and just type icons and if you don't have this folder then you can create this one
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as well so these are the hidden folders usually used for configuration in your system so if you
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press control H again they will hide basically so I'm going to hit control H again
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and I'm going to copy the icons folder the complete icons folder or its content into the icon dot icons folder here
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and this can also be done using the skip you have to execute that escape but it is kind of dull
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so i'm not using it and i'm doing it manually and you can do the same for themes you can simply
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copy all the folders from here and go into the home folder and the theme folder and paste all the
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the folders here. That's all you have to do. Now you need some kind of tool to change the theme and if you're using Nome Dextro
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environment then you have this tweak tools. If you do not have then simply pause the video given in the top right corner and you
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will be able to install this tool in your system So open up this tool and go to preferences or appearances here and simply click application theme from here So now you can see I have bunch of options here
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For example, if I want a mate like look, so I can select mate here and this will turn to
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that iconic green color and I can also change the cursor from here and I can also change the icon
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So currently these are the icons but if I click to the mate option
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here so this will turn to the default icons the folders icon will change into
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mate color icon so you can easily see that it has turned a bit green is here
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so this is theme is applying on it basically and I can also change the cell theme
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so this is white again and I can simply go to here and I can choose Yaru mate and
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this will turn the theme into mate look so this has turned into a green thing so this way
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you can use all these available colors options here and you can customize the system the way you want
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It also comes with the wallpapers that I have just missed and if I select this option here
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the made option then it will look something like this. So this is now customized and you can choose any color that is available from the options
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and you can make your distro look a bit different than the default one that you get with Ubuntu
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I'm going to show you some of the variations of it and that's it in this video
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I'll catch you in the next one. Till then, take care and keep enjoying Linux
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