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PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 1:17 pm    Post subject: Desktop Theme,..How to run it from Xterm? Reply with quote

I have just downloaded a theme for my Gentoo,?I saved it to /root/deepness.tar.gz

How do I install the theme and run it?


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 1:33 pm    Post subject: Re: Desktop Theme,..How to run it from Xterm? Reply with quote

vulcan wrote:
I have just downloaded a theme for my Gentoo,?I saved it to /root/deepness.tar.gz

How do I install the theme and run it?


Thank You


For which windowmanager, KDE, Gnome, WindowMaker, Fluxbox, etc., etc....?
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 1:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

WHat kind of theme are we talking about here exactly... A kde? Gnome? fluxbox? anyway you simply untar the tarball and build the theme... if you don't know how to do that just post a little more information and we'll help you out
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 1:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have saved the theme for "FluxBox" in /root/deepness.tar.gz

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 2:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DO NOT USE X AS ROOT!

It is very dangerous.

Fluxbox styles are usually packaged in the same way, you should be able to:

cd ~/.fluxbox && tar -xvzf /root/deepness.tar.gz
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