How to set external theme for xfce4?

noware · 05-09-2006, 09:37 AM

Hi All!

I installed xfce4 on my distro and i have downloaded some themes from xfce-look.org, but i don't know how to install and use them. Is there a common place to copy them and make the window manager to recognize them? I used KDE before and with that it was so simple to install a new theme. Can i somehow simply install a theme with xfce4 also?

All help would be apprecitated.

Thanks.

mrcheeks · 05-09-2006, 03:04 PM

create a directory named .themes in your home directory

Code:

mkdir -p ~/.themes

Copy your themes in the .themes directory. In the .themes directory, extract the themes you have downloaded and they should be available to xfce.

noware · 05-10-2006, 02:33 AM

Thanks a lot, mrcheeks!

noware · 05-10-2006, 02:33 AM

Thanks a lot, mrcheeks!

reddazz · 05-10-2006, 02:48 AM

If you are installing globally, you can use /usr/share/themes.

noware · 05-10-2006, 02:53 AM

How do you mean installing globally?
You mean the xfce?

reddazz · 05-10-2006, 08:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by noware

How do you mean installing globally?
You mean the xfce?

We were discussing theme installation weren't we.

Sorry if I wasn't clear, if you want to install xfce themes so that they are available to everyone using your system, you put them in /usr/share/themes.

noware · 05-11-2006, 02:11 AM

I copied my themes to ~/.themes and to /usr/share/themes, but my xfce doesn't see them.

reddazz · 05-11-2006, 04:03 AM

Whats the name of the theme and where did you download it from?

noware · 05-11-2006, 04:16 AM

I downloaded a few themes , each of them from www.xfce-look.org, but none of them recognized by xfce.

reddazz · 05-11-2006, 04:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by noware

I downloaded a few themes , each of them from www.xfce-look.org, but none of them recognized by xfce.

Give me the name of one of the themes you tried to setup so that I can test it on my machine.

noware · 05-11-2006, 04:51 AM

I tried to install these themes :

Galaxy 2
axxlite
axxrom
Candido-redux 1.0
Chrome4

I unpacked them to the specified directories, like I mentioned above, but nothing happens

noware · 05-11-2006, 04:53 AM

Does it matter that I used the os-cillation graphical installer to build my xfce4, and therefore did not add any special configuration options to any xfce package?

Thanks

reddazz · 05-11-2006, 04:58 AM

I have a sneaky suspicion that the oscillation installer put XFCE in /usr/local, so the themes may have to be installed in /usr/local/share/themes but ~/.themes should have worked fine. I will try the themes you listed and let you know how it goes.

noware · 05-11-2006, 05:46 AM

Thanks reddazz!