Ubuntu 6.10 Progressbar is invisible

[Thumper322]

Hello all,

I just installed Ubuntu 6.10, my first Linux distro, and I'm quite impressed (fast install, detected all my hardware properly, etc). Unfortunately, the progressbars seem to be broken. While I was installing, the progressbar was invisible, and the text slowly turned grey; the volume control (Fn-F[1|2|3]) doesn't display properly, and other progressbars are also kaput.

If I change to a different theme, everything works like a charm. Is there some way to fix this in the default Human theme? If not, can someone recommend a nice theme for me? (I'm used to Royale; I used to use it under Windows XP Professional, and I thought it looked quite nice.)

Thanks for any help anyone can offer.
~Thumper322

[reacocard]

Hello all,

I just installed Ubuntu 6.10, my first Linux distro, and I'm quite impressed (fast install, detected all my hardware properly, etc). Unfortunately, the progressbars seem to be broken. While I was installing, the progressbar was invisible, and the text slowly turned grey; the volume control (Fn-F[1|2|3]) doesn't display properly, and other progressbars are also kaput.

If I change to a different theme, everything works like a charm. Is there some way to fix this in the default Human theme? If not, can someone recommend a nice theme for me? (I'm used to Royale; I used to use it under Windows XP Professional, and I thought it looked quite nice.)

Thanks for any help anyone can offer.
~Thumper322

I don't know about fixing the problem, but there are tons of themes available on www.gnome-look.org (http://www.gnome-look.org)

[Thumper322]

I don't know about fixing the problem, but there are tons of themes available on www.gnome-look.org (http://www.gnome-look.org)

Thanks reacocard; are there any themes you could recommend?

~Thumper322

[reacocard]

Thanks reacocard; are there any themes you could recommend?

~Thumper322

My current favorite is MurrinaAquaIsh: http://cimi.netsons.org/pages/murrine/themes.php (3rd one down)

You'll need to install the Murrine GTK engine to use it: http://malteo.homelinux.net/pool/edgy-malteo/extras/gtk2-engines-murrine_0.31-1_i386.deb

[Thumper322]

My current favorite is MurrinaAquaIsh: http://cimi.netsons.org/pages/murrine/themes.php (3rd one down)

You'll need to install the Murrine GTK engine to use it: http://malteo.homelinux.net/pool/edgy-malteo/extras/gtk2-engines-murrine_0.31-1_i386.deb

Thanks! Looks pretty good.

Can I sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-murrine?

[reacocard]

Thanks! Looks pretty good.

Can I sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-murrine?

If you add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list you can:

deb http://malteo.homelinux.net edgy-malteo extras

You'll also need the GPG key for this repo:

wget http://malteo.homelinux.net/B54820BC.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

[reacocard]

But it's easier to just download and install the .deb I linked to above. That way you don't have to worry about your theme breaking if Murrine is updated.

[Thumper322]

Well, I installed the .deb and tried out the theme.

I'm afraid I don't really like it; OpenOffice and Firefox don't quite fit in the theme, and overall it's too pale grey. I've already tried a few themes from gnome-look, but I haven't found anything I really like.

Can anyone recommend a theme that

blends into Firefox and OpenOffice.org
isn't too pale (it's hard to see on my LCD)
and doesn't use the ubuntulooks engine (which isn't rendering progressbars correctly)?


Thanks for your help...

[swamytk]

Try default human theme with different default color depth in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It should work

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=284713