Beryl Themes For Hardy?

**7sudden** · May 4th, 2008

After installing 8.04, it appears that Hardy has integrated Beryl, correct?

If so, is it possible to add Beryl themes?

**macaholic** · May 4th, 2008

Well, hardy has Compiz fusion, which is better than beryl since it is still developed. The themes I think you are reffering to are Emerald themes, and you can broswe them in System > Preferences > Emerald theme manager. There are a bunch there, and you can make it fetch more, also you can manaully download some at http://compiz-themes.org/.

**7sudden** · May 4th, 2008

oddly, I'm not seeing "Emerald theme manager" under System > Preferences ?

Originally Posted by macaholic

Well, hardy has Compiz fusion, which is better than beryl since it is still developed. The themes I think you are reffering to are Emerald themes, and you can broswe them in System > Preferences > Emerald theme manager. There are a bunch there, and you can make it fetch more, also you can manaully download some at http://compiz-themes.org/.

**caro** · May 4th, 2008

Originally Posted by 7sudden

oddly, I'm not seeing "Emerald theme manager" under System > Preferences ?

Go to Synaptic and search for Emerald. If it is not installed, mark for installation and install.

**Joeb454** · May 4th, 2008

Yes emerald is not installed by default, however Compiz-Fusion has been installed by default since Ubuntu 7.10

**7sudden** · May 4th, 2008

okay, got Emerald installed, and was able to import a few themes. However, I am unable to actually apply a new theme in the Emerald Manager after highlighting it.

Am I missing something?

**caro** · May 4th, 2008

bump

**overdrank** · May 4th, 2008

Originally Posted by 7sudden

okay, got Emerald installed, and was able to import a few themes. However, I am unable to actually apply a new theme in the Emerald Manager after highlighting it.

Am I missing something?

Hi and use the keys alt, F2 and use the command

Code:

emerald --replace

just copy and paste that command

**wheels.** · May 4th, 2008

or you can install fusion-icon then you can just right click on it select window decorator and choose emerald, it can also be used to toggle between metacity kwin or compiz as your window manager.

**Ms_Angel_D** · June 24th, 2008

Originally Posted by wheels.

or you can install fusion-icon then you can just right click on it select window decorator and choose emerald, it can also be used to toggle between metacity kwin or compiz as your window manager.

Thanks so much for posting this as a new ubuntu user I was having the darndest time until I read this post