Fixing Ubuntu theme Gnome Shell 3.6 metacity theme Bug (workaround)

Many thanx to reference source you made my day.

    I just realize that the metacity theme (window decorator) from Gnome Cupertino did not applied when I use it, even though the theme maker already include metacity theme in his release.
    This is because Gnome Shell 3.6 Bugs or they're changed without notice. The .themes folder that placed under user's home will not read by the system, so it will not change your window decorator theme.

   Solution 1: we need to move those package to the system wide's themes folder; /usr/share/themes/
 i.e.: /usr/share/themes/GnomeCupertino 

   Solution 2: make a themes folder under ~/.local/share/ then move that theme into this folder
i.e.: ~/.local/share/themes/GnomeCupertino 
Note: With this solution the themes in this folder will not appear in the Gnome tweak tools.

   Solution 3: make a symbolic link from ~/.themes to the ~/.local/share/
$ln -s ~/.themes ~/.local/share/themes

• Use the Gnome Tweak tools to select the theme you want 
• Alt+F2 put r then Enter to refresh the changed.

PS: Use Gnome Cupertino (gtk theme) with Zukitwo cupertino (gnome shell theme) is ROCK! ;)

Reference: http://www.fandigital.com/2012/10/use-custom-theme-in-gnome-shell-36.html

Ubuntu: Solving conky did not display on gnome-shell 3.6

Conky, conky lua script that dowloaded from gnome-look did not display any graphics on gnome-shell.

To fix; we need to edit the Conky's config file a.k.a. .conkyrc file


Replace own_window_type override with following lines:

own_window_type normal
...
You might add this line if your script did not have it.
own_window_argb_visual yes
...

Finish? then
killall conky 

then execute conky again, now it should display the graphics


Reference: http://askubuntu.com/a/139867

Bonus, nice conky theme

• http://www.unixmen.com/conky_5-and-conky_2-another-2-nice-themes-for-conky/
• http://www.unixmen.com/configure-conky-lua-in-ubuntu-11-10-12-04-fedora-debian-and-linuxmint-howto-conky/