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Offline linus72

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How to change themes in 1.4.3 and 2.0rc4??
« on: June 07, 2009, 12:20:37 PM »
Just want a quick primer or heads up on changing from the default theme to whatever gtk2 etc?
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Re: How to change themes in 1.4.3 and 2.0rc4??
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2009, 02:04:54 PM »
Well, first decide the component whose theme you are going to change :)

Jwm? gtk? fltk?


The fltk theme is selected in .Xdefaults
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Re: How to change themes in 1.4.3 and 2.0rc4??
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2009, 03:54:57 PM »
JWM was what I was wondering?
I want to install any theme that will work with JWM. ::)
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Re: How to change themes in 1.4.3 and 2.0rc4??
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2009, 03:56:58 PM »
~/.jwmrc-theme

Themes from DSL or lucky13 can just be dropped there, themes from other places (Puppy) might need some adjustment
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Re: How to change themes in 1.4.3 and 2.0rc4??
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2009, 07:48:52 PM »
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
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Re: How to change themes in 1.4.3 and 2.0rc4??
« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2009, 02:55:08 AM »
Should just be a copy from /opt/jwmThemes to ~/.jwmrc-theme and then restart widow manager
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Re: How to change themes in 1.4.3 and 2.0rc4??
« Reply #6 on: June 08, 2009, 06:56:36 AM »
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?
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Re: How to change themes in 1.4.3 and 2.0rc4??
« Reply #7 on: June 08, 2009, 07:05:45 AM »
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
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Re: How to change themes in 1.4.3 and 2.0rc4??
« Reply #8 on: June 08, 2009, 09:22:32 AM »
 ::)
OK, the command would be

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cp -a /opt/jwmThemes/name-of-theme /home/tc/.jwmrc-theme
Is that right?
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Re: How to change themes in 1.4.3 and 2.0rc4??
« Reply #9 on: June 08, 2009, 09:26:39 AM »
 ;D
Frickin A!
That works!
Thank you for your help Curaga and Roberts!
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