gnome 2 theme problems

cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

ok, i have been trying to get this theme to work all night. it just doesn't want to happen for me. here is the link.

http://www.lucidus.uklinux.net/index.php?theme=gtk2&get=Aqua-20020701.tar.gz

i untarred it in /usr/share/themes and now it comes up in the gnome control center theme selector but it doesnt do anything different. i've had the same problems with other themes too. some work. some don't. can anyone help me out here?

it is aqua for gtk and gtk2. the original link is http://www.sunshineinabag.co.uk/ if you want to check it out.

ghost_o · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 119

spendabuck · Apprentice Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 256

I got the aqua theme working for me it took me forever to figure it out http://pageone.pointclark.net:8080/desktop.jpg I'm running the sawfish manager I think it works better

cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

i got most of it working now. the problem now is that i cant set the titlebar and buttons to look like it. check out this screenshot and you'll see.
[url]65.218.56.80/Screenshot.png[/url]

how can i fix this?

spendabuck · Apprentice Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 256

you will need this other aqua theme to install in your Gtk+ theme Preferences ftp://ftp.pageone.pointclark.net just drag the folder into Gtk pref window and click install. I hope the link works.

cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

i cant get rid of my crux menu bars and junk! i got aqua menus and stuff. in fact, no matter which theme i choose, i have crux title bars. ahh!

spendabuck · Apprentice Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 256

here is my settings http://pageone.pointclark.net:8080/Screenshot.png show me yours.

cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

well, the main difference is that i am trying to use metacity. i got rid of the crux effects because when i emerged sawfish (i was using metacity) it immediatly started using some sawfish settings (crux specifically). so i unmerged sawfish. so now i am back to my default toolbars but some things use the aqua theme.

[url]65.218.56.80/Screenshot2.png[/url]

is there a way to do this with metacity, or do i have to use sawfish?

spendabuck · Apprentice Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 256

I'll be back later to give you a step by step of what I did to get aqua to work for me.

blunted · Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 7:31 am Post subject: yag

I tried using that Aqua theme for gtk but when I select it with gnome-theme-properties, it stays as the default theme, then grey objects like buttons and menus turn white, anyone fix this problem? Anywho... so I decided to try using sawfish...

rac · Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 7:44 am Post subject: Re: yag

blunted · Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 8:14 am Post subject: Thanks

That did the trick. Have a gold star.

Now to find out how to switch gnome to sawfish...

blunted · Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 8:52 am Post subject: asd

I see now why metacity was chosen... sawfish doesn't play nice with gtk2.

Changing sawfish themes seems to involve changing it then killing sawfish-ui because it freezes, and if I want to run sawfish-ui again i have to delete ~/.sawfish

blunted · Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 8:55 am Post subject:

actually

running sawfish-ui from the command line works just fine... now if I can just get that gtk aqua theme to work... as I posted above I'm having problems with it... anyone have any suggestions?