I can't theme my desktop

[krisim]

I don't know if I'm doing something wrong but, when i try to install a theme in the appearance manager, nothing happens. I've also tried to drag and drop the theme in there.

Is there a solution or am I just doing it wrong?

[wookietim]

Bump

[Tenken]

What type of theme are you trying to install (icons,metacity,emerald,etc)? And are you getting any error messages when you try to install them?

[PCWizKid]

Man, I feel your pain brother, I got some info on themes here if your interested.

http://pcwizkid.blogspot.com/2007/12/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-710-vs-osx-leopard.html


Cheers
PCwizKid

[krisim]

Oh some of it works, which is pretty weird since I've been doing the same thing over and over again. There's something that i can't get to work though, I'm trying to install the "Aurora Gtk Engine" from gnome-looks. I start to extract the file I've downloaded "56438-Aurora-1.4.tar.bz2", and get "aurora-1.4.tar.gz" and "gtkrc_themes.tar.bz2" out of it. I then try to install both of them in the appearance manager, "gtkrc_themes.tar.bz2" installs nicely and says there has been 3 themes installed, but "aurora-1.4.tar.gz" won't install and says; "This is a theme engine. It has to be compiled." (Excuse the translation, I'm using Danish in Ubuntu"

Well how do i compile it, and is that really what I'm supposed to do?

[GavinZac]

from the instructions:

To install the theme engine extract it to somewhere convenient and in that directory, these commands run:

./configure --prefix=/usr -enable-animation
make
sudo make install

(you've done this bit...) Then install the gtkrc themes by extracting them to your ~/.themes directory (3 themes in total).