chin808 Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 I love gaim- its a great im app, but man does it muck up my lovely smooth desktop, I have seen a pic or two of gaim contact lists with black backgrounds, or backgrounds that go with the color sceme on the desktop. I would REALLY love to know how to make the white go away and NEVER come back :D Please guide me in the ways of the master linux guru ways... oh man Im tired gimme something nice to read when I wake up guys! :P g'night! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 Maybe here? http://gaim.sourceforge.net/themes.php Anyways, these sort of things you could search the web for it yourself (no offense meant). Like going here: http://www.google.com/linux then looking for 'Gaim skins' or 'Gaim Themes'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 Unfortunately darkelve those were only smily themes. At the moment the GAIM team is working on seperating the GUI from the core of the progrma, rhis will mean greater customizability of GAIM, and all sorts of alternate GUIs will pop up soon. On desklets and all sorts of stuff. iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 For now you can set your background-color in preferences->interface->... Does this help some? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 Unfortunately darkelve those were only smily themes. oops... sorry, did not know that. It's just that all apps I used in Linux seemed to have a skin/theme feature, so I assumed the obvious... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chin808 Posted December 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 Unfortunately darkelve those were only smily themes. oops... sorry, did not know that. It's just that all apps I used in Linux seemed to have a skin/theme feature, so I assumed the obvious... when u assume you make an ass out of you and me... ;) I have spent countless hours researching this thank you, I usually use this board when I have exhausted all my own recources peas -C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chin808 Posted December 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 For now you can set your background-color in preferences->interface->...Does this help some? I wish I had that option, my interface tab only gives me one option "display remote nicknames if no alias is set" Im usin .72 anymore info? Thanx -C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chin808 Posted December 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 Unfortunately darkelve those were only smily themes. At the moment the GAIM team is working on seperating the GUI from the core of the progrma, rhis will mean greater customizability of GAIM, and all sorts of alternate GUIs will pop up soon. On desklets and all sorts of stuff. iphitus This pleases me... hopefully sooner than later :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 (edited) when u assume you make an ass out of you and me... ;) I have spent countless hours researching this thank you, I usually use this board when I have exhausted all my own recourcespeas -C :o :unsure: So sorry... Edited December 7, 2003 by Darkelve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chin808 Posted December 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 no worries my friend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 Gaim follows the gtk theme that is selected. If you're running Gnome, this is easy. Just open a console and type gnome-theme-manager and select a new gtk theme. If you're running another WM, you first need to start the Gnome settings daemon once again by opening up a console and typing gnome-settings-daemon You may need to include an & sign after each of those commands to force it to run in the 'background' ie. Not close when you close your console. You can download new gtk themes from http://art.gnome.org or http://themes.freshmeat.net When you download one, the theme needs to be extracted to ~/.themes Create the folder if you have to. Hope this helps you out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chin808 Posted December 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 Thanx for the reply, I can get themes loaded for the most part- and yea they cover Gaim as well.... Im just wanting a way to make the background in gaim black instead of white... Its so out of place on my nice black desktop Thanx -C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 It's somewhere in the theme file. The one thing I can't figure out, though, is how to make the damn text white (or any other color, for that matter) after you change the bg color. Maybe it's in gnome-font-properties. I would tell you the exact lines, but I'm at work in Windows right now. They are unmistakable, though. Take a theme you like, make a copy with another name and edit that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chin808 Posted December 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 Well I tried using the Aero theme which is all black and it still left my Gaim with a while bg... I really dont know whats up . Is there a file for gaim you can edit or no? Thanx -C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 Aero works for me with a black bg. Strange that it doesn't work for you. By the way, the file you need to look in for the colors is the gtkrc file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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