Adding themes in Gnome...

[rick420]

I know it seems pretty straightforward, but I cannot install a new theme for gnome/sawfish. I went to themes.org and d/l some themes--aquaz to be exact. It came as a .tar file. Now when I open gnome configure and select install new theme, I browse to the new theme, select it, and nothing happens. My list still doesnt include the Aqua theme. What am I doing wrong here?

[complication]

http://sawmill.themes.org/php/docs.phtml?docid=52&secid=1.0

Good luck. It's pretty straightforward.

[rick420]

I read that before, but I dont have a /sawmill/themes direcory. Do I just need to make one?

[sandy0]

I don't believe you can install a Sawfish theme with the Gnome Control Panel Theme Manager. That is for GTK Themes. There are lots of different themes at themes.org. Each window manager uses it's own theme set. When you visit themes.org you should see links for GTK, Sawfish, KDE, Enlightenment, etc., etc. When you click on those links you will be taken to the site that is specific to that window manager themes. At each one of these sites, you will find a "doc" link that tells you exactly the procedure to use to install a theme for that window manager. With Sawfish, you have to go through an "untar" procedure. Since it's a command line process, you have to follow it precisely. It's not like windows......you can't "double click" on everything :) If you do, the "penguin takes a crap" and you'll have a big mess :)

To start with, I would try the GTK themes which can be installed "automatically" through the Gnome Control Panel Theme Manager. The untar proceedure for Window Maker is also pretty easy. Frankly, I have not figured out Sawfish either :) It's a bit trickier...........but I think it depends a lot on how your machine is configured as to where certain files are located.

[rick420]

Thanks--I was able to install some GTK themes, but still no sawish themes. I got this OSX-like theme and on the pic on themes.org the window titles were kinda rounded like a Mac, and the buttons were the little mac looking circles--how do I get these into my desktop---is there just a place to configure stuff like that?

[bdg1983]

It's Sawfish that controls the window titles. So you can change the way that the window titles look when you install new Sawfish themes.

Maybe you can create the /sawmill/themes directory, do like it says in the link that's posted here and see if it works... if it doesn't work, you can try changing the directory's name to /sawfish/themes.

I'm just guessing here because, like I said before, I don't use Sawfish... but you can always try...

[yard21]

I found the correct path to unpack the theme by searching for a theme that is already installed. Try as root a "find / -name *name-of-theme-already-installed* -print 2>/dev/null" and see if it finds a path. I'm using Ximian Gnome, and I found it under "/opt/gnome/sawfish/0.36" or similar, I guess (sorry, I'm not sitting on my own computer, otherwise I would look it up).