How to change themes in 1.4.3 and 2.0rc4??

[linus72]

Just want a quick primer or heads up on changing from the default theme to whatever gtk2 etc?
Thanks

[curaga]

Well, first decide the component whose theme you are going to change

Jwm? gtk? fltk?


The fltk theme is selected in .Xdefaults

[linus72]

JWM was what I was wondering?
I want to install any theme that will work with JWM.

[curaga]

~/.jwmrc-theme

Themes from DSL or lucky13 can just be dropped there, themes from other places (Puppy) might need some adjustment

[linus72]

Hmm, well what do you mean drop them there?
In the jwmthemes folder?
i did that, now how to set the theme?
I am using DSL jwmThemes.tar.gz

[roberts]

Should just be a copy from /opt/jwmThemes to ~/.jwmrc-theme and then restart widow manager

[linus72]

Please explain

"Should just be a copy from /opt/jwmThemes to ~/.jwmrc-theme and then restart widow manager"

Copy what? The themes?
I put DSL jwmThemes in jwmthemes folder and no dice.
Copy what to .jwm-themes?
Also, being a newb; exactly what is ~/?
Is that /home?

[curaga]

Yeah, ~ expands to your home directory, /home/tc for example, when typed in a shell.

Pick a theme file from /opt/jwmThemes, and copy it over the file /home/tc/.jwmrc-theme

[linus72]

 
OK, the command would be

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cp -a /opt/jwmThemes/name-of-theme /home/tc/.jwmrc-theme
Is that right?

[linus72]

 
Frickin A!
That works!
Thank you for your help Curaga and Roberts!