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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Q&A Forum => Topic started by: wohlstandpenner on October 14, 2009, 02:56:10 AM

Title: how can i make a new Theme
Post by: wohlstandpenner on October 14, 2009, 02:56:10 AM

How can i make themes for Tinycore 2.4..
btw.. where can i find the files for the themes.?
Greatings..
Domi

Title: Re: how can i make a new Theme
Post by: MikeLockmoore on October 14, 2009, 09:29:59 AM

The answer depends on your window manager.  The base WM, flwm, does not really support themes in a way you could package for other people, but there are a few simple configuration options that can be set.  For example, the titlebar color can be defined with an environment variable (see the .info page in the repository for flwm.tcz).  There are also few settings in .Xdefaults that may be experimented with, but you may find some settings unusable.

Other window managers like jwm, IceWM, FluxBox, OpenBox, have their own methods.  You would need to study the WM documentation.  Perhaps some current users of the alternative WMs can post their theme-related settings or files.  But the first step is to pick a WM that you want to use and configure/customize.
--
Mike L.

Title: Re: how can i make a new Theme
Post by: bmarkus on October 14, 2009, 09:32:07 AM

Base Xfce4 package has a set of themes already by default. Of cource this can be extended any time.

Title: Re: how can i make a new Theme
Post by: sci_fi on October 14, 2009, 05:14:28 PM

Check out /usr/local/themes/Raleigh/gtk2.0

The file gtkrc is the guts of the standard tc theme.

You can experiment with other themes by replacing the gtk2.0 directory or just the gtkrc file.

Check out http://art.gnome.org/themes/gtk2 for many which you may download and experiment with.

Best regards,

sci_fi

Title: Re: how can i make a new Theme
Post by: ^thehatsrule^ on November 18, 2009, 12:33:18 AM

Were gtk2 themes used in the default tc setup... or do you mean something else?

Title: Re: how can i make a new Theme
Post by: bmarkus on November 18, 2009, 01:08:16 AM

Quote from: sci_fi on October 14, 2009, 05:14:28 PM

You can experiment with other themes by replacing the gtk2.0 directory or just the gtkrc file.

gtkrc is expected to be in /home/tc but not created by default. Either your are doing it or install pcmanfm which will do it automatically (same with LXDE as it is based on pcmanfm).