Re: gtk themes

[Ross Burton <ross.burton@mail.com>]

On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 13:31, francisco m neto wrote:
> > So I just got Debian testing up and running on my brand spankin' new Dell 
> > Inspiron 8100 (PIII 866-m 256 MB RAM, Geforce2Go 16 MB), and I've almost 
> > worked out all the little bugs.  One major one left - I can't get GTK themes 
> > to work.  Several of them actually change the color of things, but that's 
> > really about it.  I download the themes, untar them to the right place (with 
> > the right permissions, and with ownership to root), and then I try to load 
> > them and nothing happens.  (This is using the gnome control center).  I'm 
> > running sawfish, if that helps too.

For many themes, it's easier to untar then into ~/.themes.  That way you
know it's not a permissions thing (that is what the Install Theme button
does in the control center).

What themes don't work?  Read any readmes to see if they requires
engines that you do not have - ThinIce for example is a seperate package
but I'm not sure if Xenophobia is packaged at all.  What the console
from where you started X to see if any error messages are produced when
switching themes - this will say if you are missing a theme engine
("cannot load libthinice.so" means ThinIce is missing).

Ross Burton