GNOME Tweaks

November 21, 2025 ยท View on GitHub

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Supported Desktops

Tweaks is designed for GNOME Shell but can be used in other desktops.

Some few features will be missing when Tweaks is run without gnome-shell.

Build

The only build-time dependency is meson.

meson builddir
ninja -C builddir
ninja -C builddir install

Runtime Dependencies

  • Python 3

  • pygobject

  • gnome-settings-daemon

  • sound-theme-freedesktop

  • GIR files and libraries from:

    • GLib
    • GTK 4
    • gnome-desktop
    • libadwaita
    • libnotify
    • Pango
    • gsettings-desktop-schemas
    • libgudev

  • GSettings Schemas from:

    • gsettings-desktop-schemas
    • gnome-shell
    • mutter

Running

  • If you wish to run the application uninstalled, execute;

    ./gnome-tweaks [-p /path/to/jhbuild/prefix/]

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

data/org.gnome.tweaks.metainfo.xml.in is licensed under the Creative Commons CC0-1.0 license.