manly Posted April 30, 2003 Report Share Posted April 30, 2003 I'm having trouble installing some themes from KDE-look. For example, I've downloaded the tarball fo the dotNET theme. I used: ./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr and then ran make install as root. It appeared to put everything in the right place (/usr/share/apps/kstyle/themes/), and all of the default themes are also in that folder. However, the new themes do not show up in the KDE Control Centre. I tried copying the themes to ~/.kde/share/apps/kstyle/themes, with no effect. How do I get KDE to recognize the new themes? I'm using KDE 3.1, and I'm having the problem with other themes as well. Also, I installed ksplashmanager. It placed a .desktop entry in /usr/share/applnk, but MenuDrake gets it's info from applnk-mdk. Can I just move the entry to the right folder, and run update-menus? Or will that mess things up? Thanks, Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabbman Posted April 30, 2003 Report Share Posted April 30, 2003 From memory, some time ago, it seems many of the themes required part of the install as root, and a ./ xxxsh as user. Instructions after you untar the file usually located in an install or readme txt file, each seems to have it's own personality. I now just urpmi my eycandy from texstar's repository Here it just makes the eye-candy life so much easier, icons, wallpaper, sounds, colors, suse and redhat widgets, lots of toys. :) You can add the repository to your urpmi list by following the instructions Easy Urpmi - HERE , have fun and happy tweaking. :D The kde control panel now becomes your new freind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted April 30, 2003 Report Share Posted April 30, 2003 If it's a kde3.0 theme, it won't work (well most don't). Make sure you use themes for 3.1. I don't know about ksplashmanager. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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