Guest Tux234 Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 i trying to switch to gnome but i can't seem to get the buttons or the scrollbars of the window do display the themes I download right even though the theme manager says that they are installed. Also Icons I try to install won't show up in the theme manager Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 First, are you installing them as a user, or root? Are they in your /home/usr_name/.themes /home/usr_name/.icons /home/usr_name/.meacity directories? Are you clicking on the Details button to specifically change and specific theme, or are you changing from the main window? Are there dplicates...in other words, make sure you didn't install a theme that was already in /usr/share/themes. Finally, is the theme engine installed? This is separate from a theme...it's what makes a theme display and act properly. What themes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tux234 Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 1st I'm installing them as a user. 2nd I put them in there right places 3rd I click the details button 4th The themes I installed aren't in /usr/share/themes but they show up in the theme manager. 5th I'm not sure what the the theme engine is; is it the index.theme file? If so the files I d/l'ed didn't have it in the file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 an index.theme file is for an icon theme only, and I belive is manditory. All mine have one. [root@localhost root]# ls ~/.icons/Industrial 192x192/ 24x24/ 32x32/ 48x48/ 72x72/ 96x96/ cursors/ index.theme scalable/ [root@localhost root]# here's where you'll find your engines [root@localhost root]# ls /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0/engines libcleanice.la* libgalaxy.so* libpixmap.la* libthinice.so* libcleanice.so* liblighthouseblue.so* libpixmap.so* libwonderland.la* libcrux-engine.so* libmetal.la* libredmond95.la* libwonderland.so* libflat.la* libmetal.so* libredmond95.so* libxfce.la* libflat.so* libmist.so* libthinice.la* libxfce.so* [root@localhost root]# ...so, which theme? Because if you install the Flat theme and do not install/compile the Flat Engine, it will not look right and usually just shows the theme colors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 If you download the themes (like from http://art.gnome.org ) and unzip them, you will be left with a folder containing all of the theme elements. Copy that folder (the whole thing) into your ~/.themes folder and then it will be accessible from within the Gnome Theme Manager. As a side note, I have never gotten Icon themes to work by installing them with the Gnome Theme Manager, the only way I've gotten them to work is by unzipping them into the ~/.icons folder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 Hey bvc, is it possible to use a KDE icon theme in Gnome? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 Also, sometimes you think you have a theme and what you really have is a theme/engine combo. Look in the uncompressed dir for Makefiles and Configure files. If you see those, you need to as user in the top dir of the source tree; ./configure --prefix=/usr make <su to root> make install Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 Hey bvc, is it possible to use a KDE icon theme in Gnome?No. Not that I know of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tux234 Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 Even the one's i have engines for won't display. I figurered out though that the themes work under root but as a user all it displays are the galaxy buttons and scrollbars. Oh yeah, by the way I'm tying to display the panther controls theme but when i downloaded it it didn't come with an engine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 I figurered out though that the themes work under root but as a user all it displays are the galaxy buttons and scrollbars.OK, this has worked for some and not others. As a user remove mandrakegalaxy from running and dognome-session-save Details here; http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...=mandrakegalaxy http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...=mandrakegalaxy http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...=mandrakegalaxy let us know...... panther?....where?....I don't see it at freshmeat or art.gnome. Not all themes require their own engine. Most use other engines. In other words, it starts with a new theme & engine that someone creates, then others make themes to work with the same engine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 Open a console and do this: cd mkdir oldgtkstuff/ mv .gtkrc* oldgtkstuff/ Then log out of Gnome and back in. See if it helps. If it does, you can delete the directory oldgtkstuff/. If not, do this in a console: cd mv oldgtkstuff/* ./ rmdir oldgtkstuff/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 panther?....where?....I don't see it at freshmeat or art.gnome. Not all themes require their own engine. Most use other engines. In other words, it starts with a new theme & engine that someone creates, then others make themes to work with the same engine. http://art.gnome.org/themes/gtk2/471.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 :shock: how'd I miss that? :shock: Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tux234 Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 THANK YOUOOOOO DOLSON!!! It worked it reaLLYY WORRRKED!!! After all those days of :banghead: it finally worked thank you, thank you so much for all of your replies. :mystismiles: :mystismiles: :mystilol: :mystilol: PS: ya'll probably think I'm don't ya. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 :shock: how'd I miss that? :shock: Thanks! You didn't look hard enough. :lol: j/k, I used that one on a debian box, I like it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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