Theme installation issues

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Zandy1123 · Post by **Zandy1123** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 10:53 pm

I'm trying to install a handful of themes.

My first issue was this:

I went into Applications - Desktop Prefs - Themes and installed the panther-gtk tar.gz file. HOWEVER, the theme did not appear in the list. I then clicked on the "Theme Details" button and I found the panther theme under the "Controls" tab. I clicked it - it looked fine and I saved the theme, which then appeared in the Themes list.

Second issue: the panther-gtk theme is complete with icons and everything. However, when I go into "Theme Details," panther doesn't show up under the "Window Border" or "Icons" lists.

Any ideas why not?

Similarly, I tried to install the Noia icon theme, but it doesn't appear in the "Icons" list either.

Help would be GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks,
Andrew

Ansur · Post by **Ansur** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:24 pm

I assume you are using Gnome as WM?

Zandy1123 · Post by **Zandy1123** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:31 pm

yes - I'm using Gnome

I was able to manually install the icon themes into /usr/share/icons

That worked fine.

But the panther-gtk2 theme is still being strange. Everything is bundled into a single tar.gz file....only the controls appear...still no icons or window borders

Ansur · Post by **Ansur** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 3:08 pm

Zandy1123 wrote:But the panther-gtk2 theme is still being strange. Everything is bundled into a single tar.gz file....only the controls appear...still no icons or window borders

I'm not an expert on this subject, but shouldn't you untar that file?

Zandy1123 · Post by **Zandy1123** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 3:11 pm

Actually, the help files for installing themes states that the file should remain untarred...

Again, I was able install parts of the file manually by untarring it and placing the files in the /usr/share/themes folder.

I've given up on getting all of the parts of the panther theme to install properly.

mcdermottpa · Post by **mcdermottpa** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:28 pm

I too am no expert but in the past I have just copied the dirs when making a new account. The theme app just unzips the theme file you send it and puts it in ~/.themes. In the case of icons there is a ~/.icons dir but everything seems to get put in /usr/share/icons where it is readable by all users.

Zandy1123 · Post by **Zandy1123** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:46 pm

yeah...I'm getting into the habit of putting everything in the /usr/share/icons and themes folders to allow universal access. When an individual user customizes a theme and saves it, it gets stored in that user's themes folder and does not affect the shared themes.

I'm a total Linux n00b (obviously) - just installed Gentoo a few days ago. So far, I love it...I need to clear out some more real estate in my brain to accommodate all this new Linux info.