Hi all,

Customizing the Ubuntu LiveCD and onto the final touches.

I can't find where Ubuntu stores the system wide default theme and where it stores a user selected theme.

I tried editing /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom to set the GtkTheme value but nothing.

So I have just edited the Human theme to suit. But now the icons. I made a custom theme in a liveCD and saved it, put it in /etc/skel/.themes so it is available to all new users. But how does one set the system or a user to use a particular theme ? Which file is it ?


Any help on this would be great!

Thanks

Hi,

Try /etc/opt/gnome/gdm

The /etc/opt is where the display managers' defaults are kept, since they install to the /opt directory now.

Sam

Cheers samstar, I'll try that tomorrow when back at work.

Thanks

Nothing in /opt
It does have /opt though, but just nothing in it.

It should be in /usr/share/gdm/themes

This is where the theme's are listed, but how do we set which one is in use ?

System->Preferences-->Theme

Select the theme you want and hit customize to alter it.

Need to change the file directly. Like I said, I am customising the Live CD and working in the squash file system through a bash chroot.

Ok, if you're looking for the themes themselves, like snares said, they'd be in the /usr/share/gdm or /usr/share/ directories. If you want the configuration files, they should always be located in the /etc folder, under particular subfolders.

GDM themes only refer to your login prompt's themes. These configuration files do not affect the window manager themes after you've logged in.

I don't know where the system default configuration files are. I know that user specific configuration files are located inside hidden files and directories in users' home directory (~). I don't have time to go into detail, but explore the hidden directories there to find what you want.

As to the /opt and /etc/opt folders, I think that's just a quirk unique to Suse distros.

Sam

Yeah got the themes. They are also located in ~/.themes once a user saves their own based on a mix of options in the GUI.

I wouldnt have thought a user choosen setting would go in /etc as I didnt need to supply sudo password to set it in the GUI and it would need those rights in order to write to /etc

System wide probably is in /etc, but I have been looking for days.

I have read otherwise. I have read the GtkTheme= setting in the assortment of gdm.conf affect your themes in Gnome.


Me either, hence my problem

I am aware of this and have done searches, listings before and after making a GUI change and then running diff over files and nothing seems to change when the theme is changed in the GUI. I dont where else a user has perms to write to, but nothing seems to be written to anything in ~/.*
I am still looking, but I thought I could save me hours of diff'ing and searching by asking here.



Ahh ok.

Look at what I found !

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/white...fig/index.html

What an anti-climax that was haha

I found quite a few configuration files located in /var/lib and its subdirectories. Some seem to set up the 'human' theme, so that could be where the default configs are stored. I can't really go into further detail, just explore it thoroughly.

I also thought about the /etc/alternatives folder and if that might point to where the defaults are.

Sam

Well my solution was to simply run

And...


A bit of a hack, but it works.


I never thought it would be this hard to find the config files in Gnome. So glad I use KDE.