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kozaki

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From: London >. < Paris

Registered: 2005-06-13

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[xfce4]howto keep the personalized theme ?

I've got Arch Linux installed on 6 PCs for an association.
We customized xfce4 the best we could, then everything is gone as soon as it gets upgraded (yesterday to 4.2.3-1).
The way we changed the splash screen is dirty, as for now we simply edited /opt/xfce4/share/themes/ArchLinux/balou/themerr and created an image to replace original :oops:

I've had no time enough to go deep into xfce4 documentation, but basically, what are the best way to keep our xfce4's customization when updating :
- Create a custom theme (splash, xfwm4), then manually configuring the PCs one by one ?
- Create a xfce4 package with special theme files ?
- Some other way ?

Thank you for your advice

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neri

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From: Victoria, Canada

Registered: 2003-05-04

Posts: 553

Re: [xfce4]howto keep the personalized theme ?

that's what god (tm) invenetd the ~/.themes folder for

copy your theme to:
~/.themes/<themename>/balou/
under this folder should be the png and the themerc file

-neri