Debian Wheezy change Gnome theme

[ph0bYx]

I can't seem to change the theme. Actually I can't seem to install any new themes.
I've downloaded like a gazillion different themes and placed them in /home/.themes and /usr/share/themes, installed some murrine themes as well, installed some gnome-themes - basically did everything suggested by the first 2-3 pages of my google searches.
After all that all I see are window themes in gnome-tweak-tool, the GTK+ themes always stay the default ones, which I don't like and like to change.
What am I doing wrong?

[bad_brain]

hmm....shouldn't it be in the user's home dir? like /home/ph0byx/.themes

[ph0bYx]

Yes, it's that one. My bad, sorry!

[bad_brain]

ok, put the theme folders into /usr/share/themes and see if it works then...

[ph0bYx]

I've put them on both folders as I mentioned up there

[bad_brain]

gah....sorry, not enough sleep last night..

hmm....I am kinda out of ideas now, but I am asking myself why you are actually still using the pretty drab standard Window decorator when you already have Compiz installed. ever thought about setting up Emerald instead?

[ph0bYx]

Ah, I have Compiz installed on my desktop, not the laptop. I'll install it asap and report the results

Btw, finding a solution for this particular problem on google turned out to be most difficult. I expected better results, guess no many have encountered this problem...

[ph0bYx]

I managed to fix my problem with the gnome themes. I feel embarrassed now, mind you!
The problem was that I was trying to use GTK2 themes instead of GTK3, all the GTK3 themes are working perfectly.
Sorry for wasting your time

[bad_brain]

no problem, I have spent hours once with trying to fix a problem that was caused by me forgetting to restart apache after adding a module already....

glad you got it figured out!

[ph0bYx]

But simple errors like that always make me glad that there is no bigger mess beneath it

[bad_brain]

exactly! and after the "duh!!" moment you are also often happy that it was a nice opportunity to learn things you wouldn't have learned if all would have went smooth...