GTK+2 Application Themes

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Stefan Schwarzburg wrote:

> You might want to look at www.xfce-look.org. There you can find different
> themes. My personal favorites are the Murrine-Themes. You can download a
> theme from there, save it in $HOME/.themes, unpack it, and it will be seen
> and selectable from the Xfce-Settings-Manager. BUT you must also have the
> corresponding Gtk+2-Engine installed. For example the Murrina-Engine to
> use Murrina-Themes. You can get these engines also from the same site, but
> if you can, it would be better to install them from your package manager.
> And you are definitly not restricted to use only themes that start with
> xfce-... .

Stefan,

   Thank you. I'll try to make time this coming weekend to spend on this.

   I was surprised to discover that none of the existing themes in
/usr/share/themes are displayed in the settings manager, even if I rename
them to Xfce-whatever. What might be causing this behavior?

Rich

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