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Barghest

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From: Hanau/Germany

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 563

Too stupid to customize gnome?

Hi,

usually I'm using openbox but with the release of gnome 2.24 I wanted to take a look at it (also made a trip to kde4 but I didn't like it).

I found this nice theme for ubuntu that I want to use in arch now: http://tinyurl.com/4ey29b

...but I don't get it (OB seems much more easier to customize than gnome )

Here you see how my desktop looks now:

1. My window is always grey. No matter what I do, I can't change the color.

2. I can't see the text in the panel as it ias black on black

3. Is the "Human" icon theme available via pacman or do I have to search it manually?

4. And now for something different: When I clikc on places > home a search window opens but I thought it should be nautilus. For "Computer" it works.

creslin

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Registered: 2008-10-04

Posts: 241

Re: Too stupid to customize gnome?

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57517

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Barghest

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From: Hanau/Germany

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 563

Re: Too stupid to customize gnome?

Thanks for the link.

I found another reason for the problems with changing the theme: it is only executably via gtk.chttheme that I installed for the use in OB. How can I (temporarily) change this?

Still not solved is #4 (and 3)

creslin

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Registered: 2008-10-04

Posts: 241

Re: Too stupid to customize gnome?

@gtk.chtheme: You can put this in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file to set the theme without using chtheme (assuming you installed Dust to ~/.themes):

include "/home/barghest/.themes/Dust/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

@Human icons: I'm not sure what you mean by the Human icons.  If you're referring to the default ubuntu mouse cursor, the first one is the white theme and the 2nd is black:

# pacman -S xcursor-vanilla-dmz
# pacman -S xcursor-vanilla-dmz-aa

#4: I'm not familiar enough gnome.

Last edited by creslin (2008-10-25 14:06:55)

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esters

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Registered: 2006-11-04

Posts: 173

Re: Too stupid to customize gnome?

Barghest - You have GTK+ themes installed ? // From your screenshot I presume you're trying the Ubuntu Dust theme, which requires the -svn snapshot of Murrine engine.

human-icon-theme is in AUR

Last edited by esters (2008-10-25 14:31:28)

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: Too stupid to customize gnome?

#4:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=49796
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57505