paul Posted May 25, 2003 Report Share Posted May 25, 2003 after seeing dolson screenshot of his Gnome Desktop, I thought I might give it a shot for a while. (dolson screeshot is here http://icculus.org/~dolson/images/mydesktop.png ) I've got a couple of questions tho' 1. I can't seem to install theme (icon themes, or window border themes) am I d/loading the wrong thing or what ? can somebody give me a quick HOW-TO please? 2. Is there a way to *map* keys to execute commands? example: I like having ALT-x to execute a terminal, and ALT-s to execute Sylpheed. 3. How do I edit the Gnome menu? (add and replace items etc) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 25, 2003 Report Share Posted May 25, 2003 http://art.gnome.org/ http://gnomesupport.org/forums/ 1.Basically you just drag and drop them into the gnome-theme-manager window...or use the install button. They don't show up until you close it and reopen the gnome-theme-manager. The are put in; ~/.themes ~/.icons ~/.metacity So you can do it manually as well. Or, as root put themes (gtk) and metacity in /usr/share/themes, and /usr/share/icons for global. Also, if you have the same theme in /usr/share/themes and one of your $HOME dirs, it won't show up in the gnome-theme-manager. 2.In mandrake it's....Main menu>Configuration>GNOME>Keyboard Shortcuts. It's probably also in gconf-editor somewhere which is a proposed central control center for future gnome2/s. 3. Don't know? I'm in mandrake rt now and Libranet updates as well :wink: getchya a real distro :mystilol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beesea Posted May 25, 2003 Report Share Posted May 25, 2003 2.In mandrake it's....Main menu>Configuration>GNOME>Keyboard Shortcuts. It's probably also in gconf-editor somewhere which is a proposed central control center for future gnome2/s. in gconf-editor, goto /apps/metacity/global_keybindings. edit the values in run_command_1, run_command_2, etc to the shortcut keys you wanna use. then goto apps/metacity/keybinding_commands and fill in the execution comands for what you want command_1, command_2, etc. to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted May 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2003 1. Thanks BVC ... you actually need to restart gniome before any of the new themes show up :roll: which sound pretty windowsy to me 2. Thanks beesea, that works perfectly !!!! 3. firstly this for bvc secondly, same as above, you need to restart gnome before any changes take affect :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 25, 2003 Report Share Posted May 25, 2003 First, like I said, get a real.... :P ....no seriously, I have NEVER had to restart gnome for anything to show up in the theme manager!!!!????? Uuuummm....and in mandrake, most newly installed apps show up in the menu immediately as well :roll: :roll: :roll: 8) What gnome version and distro are you using? To get a ballpark figure on your gnome version, rt-click the panel and click About Panels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted May 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2003 paul@trinity paul $ emerge -p gnome-base/gnome These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-2.2.1 paul@trinity paul $ enough said ??? :-P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 25, 2003 Report Share Posted May 25, 2003 paul: i found in gentoo that the best way to get themes installed is to merge the them. prajna@tymecc prajna $ emerge -s gnome-themes Searching... [ Results for search key : gnome-themes ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * x11-themes/gnome-themes Latest version available: 2.2.1 Latest version installed: 2.2.1 Size of downloaded files: 2,347 kB Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gnome-themes Description: A set of gnome2 themes, with sets for users with limited or low vision prajna@tymecc prajna $ emerge -s gtk-themes Searching... [ Results for search key : gtk-themes ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * x11-themes/gtk-themes Latest version available: 2.0-r2 Latest version installed: 2.0-r2 Size of downloaded files: 521 kB Homepage: http://themes.freshmeat.net/ http://art.gnome.org/ Description: Some nice themes for GTK+ 2 prajna@tymecc prajna $ i tried installed them previously on my own and had issues with them not working right, but when i did this everything seemed to work just fine. never had to restart gnome, either.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 25, 2003 Report Share Posted May 25, 2003 :roll: Yep...that explains it Really though, if you have to restart gnome to get theme stuff to show up, then something is seriously wrong. I won't blame it on one of those 'we're built to be fast, but we're not friendly and you'll always be fixing us' distros The gnome-theme-manager even worked right in Slackware9.0 but I did have some probs in LFS-4.0 :roll: . Go to the forum link above and you'll find that most of the weird probs posted are from gnome compiles. :( I'm sure you want more than the basic themes that come with it. They are limited and lame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted May 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2003 tyme: trinity root # emerge search gtk-themes Searching... [ Results for search key : gtk-themes ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * x11-themes/gtk-themes Latest version available: 2.0-r2 Latest version installed: 2.0-r2 Size of downloaded files: 521 kB Homepage: http://themes.freshmeat.net/ http://art.gnome.org/ Description: Some nice themes for GTK+ 2 trinity root # emerge search gnome-themes Searching... [ Results for search key : gnome-themes ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * x11-themes/gnome-themes Latest version available: 2.2.1 Latest version installed: 2.2.1 Size of downloaded files: 2,347 kB Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gnome-themes Description: A set of gnome2 themes, with sets for users with limited or l ow vision trinity root # :-( bvc ... I'm ignoring BVC coz he wants to start a flame war :lol: I've never been to gnomesupport.org so I go there and have a look Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 25, 2003 Report Share Posted May 25, 2003 Burn baby burn :lol: I'm not flaming just tellin it like it is, from my own experience, and from what I've read. It's not just 'gentoo' , it's lfs, debian unstables, or any distro or stable distro where the user tried to build gnome/2 from source. It's doesn't play nice. I've done it twice and had major/weird probs both times, and like I said, so goes with many others. Have you tried to put them in /usr/share? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 25, 2003 Report Share Posted May 25, 2003 well then, if you have those packages installed, i have no idea, it worked fine for me.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted May 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2003 Tyme: ... yeah I'm trying to install other themes from art.gnome.org or themes.freshmeat.net ... I can with some of them, but not others. bvc: <sarcasm> Yeah righto .... Mr. anti gentoo :-P </sarcasm> actually I've read a few thing about compiling gnome from source too. It seems you are right :shock: I can still do the things I want ... I just have to logout before changes take affect :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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