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    Applying new Ubuntu themes

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by comrade_commissar7, Aug 9, 2009.

  1. comrade_commissar7

    comrade_commissar7 Notebook Evangelist

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    Can someone give me a detailed step-by-step from dowloading a theme to applying it? Thanks .... :(
     
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    i think the easiest way would be downloading a theme from a site like

    http://gnome-look.org (under gtk2.0)

    right clicking on your desktop and choosing "change desktop background", then go to the first tab "theme", click on "install", find the theme that you downloaded... and that's it.
     
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    make a folder named .themes and unzip the theme contents into it, or you can use the gnome theme thing to do it for you. (believe it's gnome-theme-manager). My themes folder is huge...almost 50MB...I have a ton of icons and mouse themes in it as well.

    Metacity is the window borders and GTK is the stuff inside. Most of theme don't come as "themes" like you see in the main theme window so you have to customize...I haven't used the latest Gnome too much and I believe they changed it to make it easier but the basics are still the same.
     
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    Why is that some other themes require you to configure some appearance settings to suit the theme or else some fonts can't be read due to the colour discrepancies?
     
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    You would have to ask the authors of those themes. Many of them are just straight up bad quality.
     
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    yeah a lot of GTK apps don't pay attention to what happens with the theme so they use unreadable colours...*cough* mozilla apps *cough*
     
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    When I apply a new theme, it says "can apply new directory to directory". Why can't i change my theme? Do I need to download Compiz? :(
     
    comrade_commissar7, Aug 10, 2009
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