[lug] Gnome Desktop Themes.

[John Starkey]

Ahhhh that's what those are for.... :}

Thanks... this desktop is gonna be mine yet :}


John

Justin wrote:

> Cool...setting up your desktop in linux can kinda be a pain sometimes.
> You should be able to find matching gtk themes for your windowmanager
> themes. That way your panel and gnome application bar will match your
> sawfish theme. Then, you can get matching xmms themes  :) And matching
> gkrellm themes too if you use that, hehe.
>
> Justin
>
> > I should have followed up on this. Sorry. Just around midnight last
> night
> > :} I found it (with some help from another list member).
> >
> > My problem was i was using the Control Panel > Themes instead of
> Control
> > Panel > SawFish >  Appearance > Default Frame Style.... I'd looked at
> it
> > but didn't put Default Frame Style and Themes together. I was also
> under
> > the impression Themes included a background and buttons for the
> panel. So
> > frame just sounded too basic i guess. Oh well.
> >
> > Thanks a lot for the help. I've worn out themes.org since you sent
> that
> > link though :} A lot of great work on there.
> >
> > John
> >
> > Justin wrote:
> >
> > > I've only used sawfish a little bit and I'm not at home where I can
> put
> > > it on my workstation box real quick so I'll try my best from
> memory :)
> > > I think there should be a $HOME/.sawfish directory and maybe
> a /themes
> > > subdir under that. Unless you're sharing your box with other ppl I
> > > would suggest just putting the themes in your home directory
> location
> > > instead of in /usr/share. I actually just found this doc on the
> > > sawmill.themes.org site:
> > > http://sawmill.themes.org/php/docs.phtml?docid=52&secid=1.1
> > > That should help you out.
> > >
> > > Justin
> > >
> > > > Thanks Justin.
> > > >
> > > > I'm using Sawfish and found some themes I like, downloaded them
> and
> > > added
> > > > them to /usr/share/sawfish/themes but they aren't being added
> when I
> > > do
> > > > an "Install new theme" from the gnome control panel. I added them
> as
> > > > tar.gz files which is what the install doc on themes.org says.
> > > >
> > > > Permissions are the same as the rests of the files in the same
> dir.
> > > >
> > > > Is there something else I should be doing?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks again
> > > >
> > > > John
> > > >
> > > > Justin wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > themes.org might be of help. I'm not sure if they have
> tutorials and
> > > > > stuff there or not. But it's the only place for getting
> > > windowmanager
> > > > > themes far as I'm concerned.
> > > > >
> > > > > Justin
> > > > >
> > > > > > Anyone know of a  good tutorial for setting up desktop themes
> on
> > > > > Gnome?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I found some really cool ones at
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://themes.tucows.com/themes.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If anyone is interested. But the instructions aren't there for
> > > gnome
> > > > > and
> > > > > > they are all cfg files.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Can anyone help?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks
> > > > > >
> > > > > > John
> > > > > >
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