[XGL] Compiz & gnome-window-decorator themes

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Belliash · Post by **Belliash** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:13 pm

I'm using KDE, but I have loaded Compiz and gnome-window-decorator.
All works great, but default windows decoration is ugly for me

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Where can I find some themes?
Are there any Vista-like ones (with transparent titlebar)?

Archangel1 · Post by **Archangel1** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 2:18 am

rafkup wrote:I'm using KDE, but I have loaded Compiz and gnome-window-decorator.
All works great, but default windows decoration is ugly for me .

Where can I find some themes?
Are there any Vista-like ones (with transparent titlebar)?

I'm not sure you can theme it at the moment?
The default does have a slightly transparent titlebar, which reminds me a bit of Vista - but not too much, which is good

moppsy · Post by **moppsy** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:06 am

Compiz & gnome-window-decorator themes

It doesn't look like it's all done yet.
There is the start of some code to support it in compiz_window_manager.c.

The title font can be changed in gconf-editor @ /apps/metacity/general
titlebar_font and titlebar_uses_system_font both work.

You can also change the numer of virtual desktops @ /apps/compiz/general/options/size
source says 4 is min and 32 is max, but it tops at 25 for me, go figure.
Anything other than 4 seems to kill the top display of svg's.

Cursor themes work OK using .icons and Xcursor.theme, but that's not a compiz thing.

EDIT:

gnome-window-decorator does support changing the titlebar color through gtk styles.
You can use gnome-theme-manager but it does crash after you select a new theme.
Titlebar shade and the controls are hard coded though.

It's a cludge, but you can change the transparency of the titlebar by editing the source for gnome-window-decorator.
@ line 1235 is the alpha setting for active windows.
@ line 1267 is the setting for inactive windows.
It works, but you'll have to do it every time you upgrade compiz.

vdemeester · Post by **vdemeester** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:31 am

moppsy wrote: gnome-window-decorator does support changing the titlebar color through gtk styles.
You can use gnome-theme-manager but it does crash after you select a new theme.

You can use gtk-chtheme (i think it's in the portage tree) and it works without crash.

moppsy wrote:It's a cludge, but you can change the transparency of the titlebar by editing the source for gnome-window-decorator.
@ line 1235 is the alpha setting for active windows.
@ line 1267 is the setting for inactive windows.
It works, but you'll have to do it every time you upgrade compiz.

Perharps, we can make a patch for auto-modification in cvs files, but every time de gnome-windows-decorator.c change, we must verified that the patch could be apply without errors.

gnome-window-decorator.c is wonderful. You can change alpha settings but i think also shades, window corner, buttons for maximase, cose, minimize, etc...

Belliash · Post by **Belliash** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:54 pm

OK...

What should I install and do to change:
* windows decoration
* and where can I find other themes?
* where to put it, etc... ?

moppsy · Post by **moppsy** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 1:33 pm

You can use gtk-chtheme (i think it's in the portage tree) and it works
without crash.

Yes, you can actually go and change the theme with gconf-editor @
/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme.

Although, If your not running gnome, your probably out of luck for the titlebar color. Like me.

What should I install and do to change:
* windows decoration
* and where can I find other themes?
* where to put it, etc... ?

You can't change windows decorations yet, only color and font. And color is even a bit iffy at the moment.
try themes.org or gnome-look.org
~/.themes or /usr/share/themes

vdemeester · Post by **vdemeester** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 1:34 pm

rafkup wrote:OK...

What should I install and do to change:
* windows decoration
* and where can I find other themes?
* where to put it, etc... ?

compiz does not support themes.. So you just can change colors and font..
If you want a customized window, i think you had to make change in gnome-window-decorator.c :/

blk_jack · Post by **blk_jack** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:23 pm

I used gconf-editor and gtk-chtheme and couldn't find anything relating to the window titlebar color. It picks up a base color from the GTK theme and uses that as the active window color. Does anybody have any idea what color that is or how to change it to something else? Right now I'm using this great looking GTK theme, but unfortunately the titlebar color is this dark grey/black shade.

moppsy · Post by **moppsy** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:54 pm

This site has some modified gnome-window-decorators
looks like it's just binaries, but they work fine. Very cool!

AnXa · Post by **AnXa** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:54 am

moppsy wrote:This site has some modified gnome-window-decorators
looks like it's just binaries, but they work fine. Very cool!

WOW, those are pretty cool desktops. Only that I don't like that Vista-copy... but that Mac impression desktop was nice...

blk_jack · Post by **blk_jack** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 10:14 am

moppsy wrote:This site has some modified gnome-window-decorators
looks like it's just binaries, but they work fine. Very cool!

Wow, binaries?! That kinda sucks. I like the square bottom and some of the different fades on the titlebar... but man, binaries?!

Post up the patches!

Bolli · Post by **Bolli** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 1:46 pm

can anyone load up his downloads somewhere from the hp mentioned above?

the hp self doesn't exists anymore.

merci

[XGL] Compiz & gnome-window-decorator themes

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