Re: Setting up themes for Sawfish

[Paul Warren <pdw ex-parrot com>]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 11:05:26AM -0700, Derek Simkowiak wrote:
> -> > GMC will unpack them, showing the theme folder. Right click on
> -> > theme folder, select "Copy" and "OK".
> -> > That should install your theme correctly.
> 
> -> Also, if you got the themes from ethemes.org, you need to remove the
> -> version number from the tar.gz'd file name. e.g., the theme 
> -> 'jones-0.33.3.tar.gz' becomes 'jones.tar.gz'.
> 
> 	This makes no sense.  The first instructions say to unpack the
> tarball, so what does it matter what the .tar.gz's filename is?
> 
> 	What is your rationale?

Either place the tarball in ~/.sawfish/themes and rename it OR untar the
theme in the same directory.  The problem is that for Sawfish to do its
magic theme extraction it expects the tarball to contain a directory
with the same name as the tarball, and unfortunately some unavoidable
name mangling at themes.org adds a non-optional version number to
tarballs.

Substitute /usr/share/sawfish/$VERSION/themes/ for ~/.sawfish/themes if
you have root and want the theme installed for all.

Paul