Re: themes

[Mark D'voo <mailinglists insightbb com>]

On Thursday 03 October 2002 10:13 pm, Ben FrantzDale wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 06:17, Mark D'voo wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 October 2002 03:06 pm, mike wrote:
> > > On a connected note I have come across serious problems with the stock
> > > metal theme.
> > >
> > > On many occasions if I have the theme selected the panel/nautilus will
> > > crash and not restart.
> > >
> > > Dont know if it is a xft2 related problem or not.
> > >
> > > Has anyone else come across this - it does only happen with metal
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 14:55, Calum Benson wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 09:17, Mark D'voo wrote:
> > > > > How come a lot of themes don't work ?  Any theme i install that
> > > > > shows up in metacity-setup doesn't work.  If i manually change the
> > > > > theme with gconf, about half of them work.
> > > >
> > > > The metacity theme format was changed slightly mid-development, so
> > > > you might just be using old themes.  You can edit them yourself quite
> > > > easily to make those ones work, but I forget what the magic line is
> > > > you need to add to the XML file-- somebody else here can probably
> > > > tell you.
> >
> > Anyone know this magic line?  When while the metacity themes on
> > art.gnome.org be updated ?
>
> I just fixed a theme recently so it works. (There really should be some
> feedback from metacity that it sees the gconf theme key change but that
> it can't load the theme. Sending a message to stderr is sub-optimal.)
>
> Themes used to be in /usr/share/metacity/themes/[themename]/
> Now they are in /usr/share/themes/[themename]/metacity-1/
>
> So:
>
> for each theme in /usr/share/metacity/themes/
> mkdir /usr/share/themes/[themename]
> mkdir /usr/share/themes/[themename]/metacity-1
> cp /usr/share/metacity/themes/[themename]/*
> /usr/share/themes/[themename]/metacity-1
>
> That should work.

that doesn't seem tofix them for me. although i am installing them in 
~/.themes/[themename]/metacity-1/

/Line72

>
> --Ben
>
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