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Hey there,
Well I finally managed to get Arch Linux installed last night, and mostly configured today >_> And I must say that I LOVE IT! I was a bit worried to try something other then Ubuntu/Mint but it was truly worth it .
Anyways I have seen people have some pretty wicked setups. And I was wondering how I would go about making the XFCE4 Panel look like the one from Crunch Bang Linux? I don't know where to begin :S.
I also tried installing these to themes by moving them to /usr/share/themes But whenever I do they never show up in Settings Manager >> Apearance | or Settings Manager >> Window Management
Theme 1: http://browse.deviantart.com/customizat … /#/d422aog
Theme 2: http://lassekongo83.deviantart.com/art/Soothe-199342656
One last question, how would I go about making Terminal and other windows "Transparent"?
Last edited by Brandon Z (2011-08-17 05:42:04)
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Hey Brandon, welcome to the forums!
Could you check to make sure that your theme directories in /usr/share/themes contain the necessary contents ("<theme_name>/gtk-2.0/gtkrc")? More information here
Oh, and I'm assuming that you're using xfce4-terminal, correct? I don't quite know how XFCE and window transparency work, but I would start poking around Google, maybe look at some xcompmgr information. Unless of course someone here more knowledgeable than me in this area can point you in the right direction.
EDIT: Below
Last edited by cesura (2011-08-17 06:12:43)
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To install the themes, extract the tarballs into ~/.themes and they should show up (although it should work just as well in /usr/share/themes, don't know why it wasn't).
To make the terminal transparent, just enable it it the options. In xfce terminal it's under Edit -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Background. Also you'll want to use some kind of compositing manager for true transparency. Xfwm has a built in compositor, so I'd use that, but you can also use something like xcompmgr.
XFWM Compositing: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xf … n_Xfce_4.6
Xcompmgr: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xcompmgr
Last edited by doorknob60 (2011-08-17 06:10:23)
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To install the themes, extract the tarballs into ~/.themes and they should show up (although it should work just as well in /usr/share/themes, don't know why it wasn't).
To make the terminal transparent, just enable it it the options. In xfce terminal it's under Edit -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Background. Also you'll want to use some kind of compositing manager for true transparency. Xfwm has a built in compositor, so I'd use that, but you can also use something like xcompmgr.
XFWM Compositing: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xf … n_Xfce_4.6
Xcompmgr: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xcompmgr
Hey Brandon, welcome to the forums!
Could you check to make sure that your theme directories in /usr/share/themes contain the necessary contents ("<theme_name>/gtk-2.0/gtkrc")? More information here
Oh, and I'm assuming that you're using xfce4-terminal, correct? I don't quite know how XFCE and window transparency work, but I would start poking around Google, maybe look at some xcompmgr information. Unless of course someone here more knowledgeable than me in this area can point you in the right direction.
EDIT: Below
Thank you guys! Thank you very much
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You can also check the setup I used when I was testing XFCE, it may provide some tips to you for theming or changing the layouts/size of stuff here
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