Re: Setting up themes for Sawfish

[Rich Rudnick <nickrud citlink net>]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 06:10:00PM +0100, Mart van de Wege wrote:
> 
> --------------Replied message--------------
> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:00:42 +0000
> From: Subba Rao <subb3 attglobal net>
> To: gnome-list gnome org
> Subject: Setting up themes for Sawfish
> 
> I have downloaded couple of themes (tar.gz) files and extracted them
> to seperate directories. Through the control panel, I tried to install
> themes
> but am getting nowhere. I searched Yahoo and other similar sites for
> instructions
> on how to install themes for Sawfish.
> <snip>
> ------------
> Subba,
> 
> Did you copy them to "/usr/share/sawfish/<version>/themes/"? It's
> a real snap with GNOME, just open a window to the directory with
> the tarred&zipped files, then open a second window and go to the
> aforementioned directory. Double click on the .tar.gz files and
> GMC will unpack them, showing the theme folder. Right click on
> theme folder, select "Copy" and "OK".
> That should install your theme correctly.
> Good luck,
> 
> Mart van de Wege
> 

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'. Do this before changing
sawfish's appearance via the control center.