Enlightenment theme questions

bergs · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 6:29 am Post subject: Enlightenment theme questions

Hi

I recently installed enlightenment and now I am a bit lost.

Does anybody use the theme Sedation DR16 or Phlat from http://www.deviantart.com? For me, the first trashes enlightenment (no borders, no menu) and the second has no fonts in the menu. How do I fix that?

Now I'm using Orange-Juice and it works fine. However, the epplets are too small / the fonts are too large. There are fonts defined in the epplets.cfg file from the theme:

"EPPLET_TEXT_TINY"
"-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-80-*-*-p-*-*-*"

"EPPLET_TEXT_MEDIUM"
"-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-p-*-*-*"

"EPPLET_TEXT_LARGE"
"-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-p-*-*-*"

How do I change the font and the font size? I'd like to use
-bitsteam-Bitstream Vera Sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 but smaller than the current font.

Thanks!

Simon

otti · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 64

You need to install this fonts:

http://dhruba.codewordt.co.uk/files/myfonts.tar.gz

And than just follow this thread:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=enlightenment-users&m=106577576021026&w=2

now the themes sedation und phlat should work.

Hope that helps..

bergs · Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 8:51 am Post subject:

That helped, thank you! Right now I'm using E16.7pre3 with Phlat.

However, Sedation still breaks E (no borders, no menu's) and the only way to restore a functional E is to delete ~/.enlightenment! :cry:

Anyway, I'm quite happy with Phlat.

Simon

grzewho · l33t Joined: 31 Dec 2002 Posts: 626 Location: /home/g

you don`t need to remove the .enlightenment directory to restore your previous settings. just change the theme name in user_theme.cfg
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otti · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 64

If a theme in enlightenment doesn't work, you can open a terminal (with enlightenment still running) and type eesh and then restart_theme DEFAULT. Of course you can take another theme-name too (instead of DEFAULT)...

Are there any error-messages when you try to use sedation?
I also use E16.7pre3 and sedation is working fine.

Impius Nex · n00b Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 13

My appologies for dredging this out of the past but I thought I might be able to help alittle bit.

Themes can be stored in two different places in enlightenment.
/usr/share/enlightenment/themes/ & ~/.enlightenment/themes/

Placing the themes in /usr/share/enlightenment/themes/ makes them available to all users that may be using enlightenment as their wm. Common sense leads us to the conclusion that placing them in ~/.enlightenment/themes/ makes them available only to that particular user.

One thing to double check before trying to use a new theme is that the directory structure is correct. If the directory structure is incorrect you will end up with ugly grey boxes around your windows instead of the expected theme's skin.

The proper directory can be found here.