Emerald theme manager won't apply

[azizzle]

Now I have searched and found posts that dealt with problems similar to mine, but none of those solutions worked for me. I have beryl running smoothly, but when i go into emerald there is no Apply button. I try to select the theme, then right-click on beryl manager and reload window decorator, but still nothing happens. I swear this is my last "help me" post for the day then i'm going to stop procrastinating and wash my dog! :p

[JordanII]

Try double clicking on the theme. :D

~Jordan

[azizzle]

haha yes i did that... i think in my frustration i may have quad-clicked on a theme... still no dice

[strumluff]

Usually it auto-applies when you click the theme. An alternative method is to select the theme and then right click on the beryl ruby, and select Reload Window Decorator.

[Kuoi]

But first "Select Window Decorator" ... ans select 'Standard Beryl Decorator (emerald)

Kuoi

[Albi]

Happens with me too, you have to right click the emerald icon in the corner and select "Reload Window Decorator"

[NumberOne]

You can press alt-f2 then type

emerald --replace

then all you have to do is click on themes in emerald and they will automatically change.

[valejandria]

Hi, thanks, work like charm. :lolflag:

[univremonster]

this same issue happened for me, but when I try the solution you suggested I get this:

remonster@remonster-desktop:~$ sudo emerald --replace
Reloading...

(emerald:8158): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_drawable_unref: assertion `GDK_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)' failed


No matter which theme I pick, even those which are preinstalled

[Rupertronco]

That's because you're using sudo to start emerald. I tried it just for fun and my borders are going nuts, they change every time I re-focus a window, it's kind of fun but you don't need super user to start emerald. If you start the program as a super user, you would have to use the same privileges to change the program.

[univremonster]

Yea I tried it without sudo first, but it didn't even give me an error message, nothing happened. No theme, no error, nothin'. Maybe I should try reinstalling emerald...

[lionkingfly]

I'm a chinese ubuntu user.
I had the same problem with you ,but now i have solved it.
I'd like to share my solution to you.

i think you had installed an old beryl and emerald,right?
I did so.

so maybe some old setting files conflict with the new version of beryl and emerald.
I had tried reinstall them,but emerald-theme-manager didn't work,i couldn't use emerald themes.


So it is need to clear the old setting files after remove beryl and emerald(sudo apt-get remove emerald* beryl*).
you should run " rm -r ~/.beryl " and " rm -r ~/.emerald" in terminal.

then you can reinstall beryl and emerald.

hope you can solve it as i can.

good luck!

[LBAWinOwns]

You can press alt-f2 then type

emerald --replace

then all you have to do is click on themes in emerald and they will automatically change.
Works perfectly, instantly and flawlessly!

Great post man :)!

[LBAWinOwns]

Oh, the solution works, but is there a way to skip doing it every session restart?

Can be tidious typing in that every time after you login :)

[SaddaGocaraRupa]

go to system > preferences > Sessions
click 'add'
type
name: emerald
command: emerald --replace

click 'ok' and you should be good to go :)