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sevenflo
February 5th, 2010, 06:11 AM
Hey guys,

Every now and then I run into an issue trying to install a theme, and I usually give up. But I really want to use this theme. I have installed themes before, but occasionally, I get "xxxx is not a valid theme."

I've read a lot of threads in forums and none have solved my issue.

I'm running a fresh copy of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) - gnome.

What I've done:
1. Tried to drag the fresh downloaded file into the Appearance window.
2. Tried to drag the inner tar file into the Appearance window.
3. I copied both tar files above into ~/.themes and /usr/share/themes/
4. I tried putting the GTK folder and the metacity-1 folder in the above two folders individually - and together.
5. I tried tarring the the metacity-1 folder and putting it in the above two locations.

What am I doing wrong? I'm very comfortable with the terminal should I need to use it. However I don't understand GTK / Metacity. Which am I running? etc..

Any input would be great. Thanks!

This is the theme I'm trying to install, Elfin2: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Elfin2?content=66121

sevenflo
February 6th, 2010, 10:05 AM
just wanted to bump this as i realized the link was broken....fixed now

stinkeye
February 6th, 2010, 10:29 AM
I think there's something wrong in how it's packaged
but I can install it by
Extracting the downloaded archive
then opening the Elfin2 folder
and then extracting the Elfin2-gtk2&metacity.tar.gz archive.
You should now be able to drag and drop the Elfin2-gtk2&metacity folder
The theme will be in Appearance > theme > customize > controls >