theme install

[Friegh]

Hi,

I must be doing somthing wrong cause I can't find my newly installed themes. I went to freshmeat.net to look for some themes for gnome..(am I right in thinking that bluecurve is a theme for gnome?)

anyway I download, un-compress/tar, open the theme manager, select install new theme find the only file that isn't a *.png select it, some stuff flash by, and nothing new happens.

I think I'm missing a simple step here but i can't think of it

Thanks

[dmammone]

I had the same problem. After looking around and playing with it for a while I found that I can only install GTK 2.X themes. GTK 1.x wouldnt work no matter what I did. I am a first time linux user (just installed it last night) and have no idea why I couldnt install the older themes. I was able to use some pictures from the old 1.X file for the backround.

[Hayl]

don't untar it. just point it at the .tar.gz file

[linkz]

Although I am a n00b, I would advise you as I think most would to use fluxbox themes instead. Trust me , Ive tried.

[shadowrider]

i'm using gnome 2
so, this wouldn't be possible?
http://freshmeat.net/projects/gorillaworm/?topic_id=990

i pointed to the tar file but nothing happen either.

[shadowrider]

oh sorry nevermind...
already came with gnome 2.
but what if i were to install other theme from freshmeat?

[shadowrider]

yeah..see i've tried all the themes in freshmeat for metacity and they all crash during installation.
what's wrong?
is gnome2 using different version of metacity of those in freshmeat?