chin808 Posted December 5, 2003 Report Share Posted December 5, 2003 Gnome is SWEET - Im ever so happy I got it running, I already like it much more than KDE. Im still tweaking and making it my home... I have a couple questions concerning metacity... I found a DARK theme for metacity thats wicked and I want to give it a go. I see that I have metacity somewhere on here but I dont know how to start it to use the theme. From what I understand its a program to theme everything including gaim- thats just what Im looking for. If Im wrong then whatever- Im sick today and my head is a mess. Also - is there a default compression utility for Gnome or should I just use Ark? When I open Ark it opens in a kde window which I dont care for... any help would be cool... or if you just want to make fun of me coz Im a super n00b thats fun too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted December 5, 2003 Report Share Posted December 5, 2003 Im sick today and my head is a mess. Also - is there a default compression utility for Gnome or should I just use Ark? When I open Ark it opens in a kde window which I dont care for... any help would be cool... or if you just want to make fun of me coz Im a super n00b thats fun too A gnome compression program? Maybe Gnozip? You should really take 15 minutes break between hours, or 30 minutes between 2 hours... :P lol... a super N00b! We need more of those! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 5, 2003 Report Share Posted December 5, 2003 As with most -- he's seen the light :D Go into the THemes control panel in GNOME, and go 'Install Theme' there. THat will install the theme, go details then pick it. And for compression -- FIle Roller is the best by far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 5, 2003 Report Share Posted December 5, 2003 from cli gnome-theme-properties file-roller to install themes from http://art.gnome.org/ just drag and drop from nautilus to the gnome-theme-properties>detail window....it's that easy. gNOooooOOOMMmmmEEEE!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chin808 Posted December 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 break what now? ;) Thanks for the replies guys- I can always count on you to come through for s00per n00b this is fun GNOME rules! hehehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted December 6, 2003 Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 GNOME does wip the Penguins a$$ (in a good way...like winamp wips the llama's a$$) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted December 6, 2003 Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 Gnome is ok.. but nautilus really must go.. If there is a lighter and non-intrusive file manager for gnome, I will reconsider it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted December 6, 2003 Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 i'm confused about what's wrong with nautilus? intrusive? you lost me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 6, 2003 Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 huh????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smartjak Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 bvc, could you do me a favor and take this oldster by the hand? I've donwload a theme to my tmp folder and then ??? How do I go about using the method you described to install new themes for my MDK 9.2 Gnome? Please take it easy on me. I'm a '60 child and all the drugs and free sex have taken it's toll on me. And it doesn't help that the drugs now are for ailment and the sex is infrequent. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 lol sure! Open nautilus and browse in the left pane tree to the directory the theme is in so that you can see the theme in the right pane. Open the gnome control center>themes>and click on the Theme Details button (or something like that). With your mouse, click and drag the theme in the tmp folder to the Theme Details window and let go (drag and drop). You'll get a popup asking for confirmation. Alternatively, when you open gnome control center>themes there's a Install Themes button so that you can browse to the theme and select it. Been a long time since I tried it that way. It use to not work for a lot of people though it usually did for me. Another way is the open file-roller and put metacity and gtk2 themes in .themes in your /home/user_name folder. Start themes in the gnome control panel and they should be there. Icon themes go in .icons. Sometimes it's necessary to restart the themes applet in the gnome control center in order to see and select the themes. Does this help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smartjak Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 Hot Dammit! It worked. I downloaded a tar.gz file and didn't know if I had to do something else to it. But I didn't. Using you instructions it was no sweat. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 Yeah, gotta love the true drag-n-drop abilities of Gnome. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 you're welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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