How to change the Cinnamon system theme from the command line?

How can I change the Cinnamon system theme from the commandline?

2 Answers

yesterday I first-time installed cinnamon on Ubuntu and asked the identical question(s). Here's what I have found so far.

Question 2: How can I change the Cinnamon system theme from the commandline?

Answer 2: You can change cinnamon theme settings in a terminal with:gsettings

1. To get allowed values gsettings, you can first set them via the GUI:cinnamon-settings themes

2. Then you filter for that new value across all gsettings - here Menta:gsettings list-recursively | grep -i Menta

Some examples:

 gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.interface clock-show-date true gsettings set org.cinnamon.theme name 'Menta' gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.interface icon-theme 'menta' gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences theme 'Menta'

P.S: From above screenshot to the original question I deduct, you were asking

Question 1: How to change the terminal settings from command line?

Answer 1: This works via dconf.

1. check what terminal you are using: gnome-terminal or mate-terminal

    [ ! -z `which mate-terminal` ] && echo "Terminal:mate" || \ [ ! -z `which gnome-terminal` ] && echo "Terminal:gnome" || \ echo "Terminal:??"

Example for gnome-terminal:

 GNOME_TERMINAL_PROFILE_ID=`gsettings get org.gnome.Terminal.ProfilesList default | cut -d "'" -f 2` GNOME_TERMINAL_PROFILE_PATH="/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:$GNOME_TERMINAL_PROFILE_ID" dconf write "$GNOME_TERMINAL_PROFILE_PATH/background-color" \"#FDF6E3\" dconf write "$GNOME_TERMINAL_PROFILE_PATH/foreground-color" \"#657B83\" dconf write "$GNOME_TERMINAL_PROFILE_PATH/use-theme-colors" false

Have Fun!

Volker Fröhlich

Open the terminal (Ctrl-Alt-T) and select the three lines on the top bar:

Then select Preferences - you can change the theme here:

Hope that helps?