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divisionbyzero

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Registered: 2011-05-21

Posts: 2

[Solved] Xfce4 "styles"

Hello,
I've downloaded some themes that I really like from xfce-look.org, however, all these themes do is change the window managers border/buttons.

I want to be able to change the overall color scheme of windows (including, for example, the scroll bar).
Now I know I can do this underneath Appearance>Styles... but these are only default styles, and to be honest they all look really 90's to me.

My question is, where can I download more of these "Styles"??? My favorite default one is "Dusk" but its just a tad too dark for my tastes.

Last edited by divisionbyzero (2011-05-21 20:07:20)

wkr

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Registered: 2011-01-01

Posts: 88

Re: [Solved] Xfce4 "styles"

Download so called "gtk2 themes" (instead of xfwm4 themes). You will find a huge number of them.

divisionbyzero

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Registered: 2011-05-21

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Re: [Solved] Xfce4 "styles"

Hey thanks, I'm on Gentoo and I emerged "gtk-engines" which gave me a couple of gtk themes, including Clearlooks.
However this didn't give me a "huge" amount of themes.... I'm wondering.... are there any Gentoo users out there who know what package I should install with portage?

Also, is there a place (similar to xfce-look) where I can just download individual "styles" for xfce? (NOT xfwm "themes").

wkr

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Registered: 2011-01-01

Posts: 88

Re: [Solved] Xfce4 "styles"

I have never used Gentoo but in most distros you just have to extract the archived "style" in ~./themes folder (create it if you don't have one). The huge amount of "styles" to download (gtk2 themes) can be found here : http://xfce-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=100. If you have xfce and clearlooks engine installed you will find lot of compatible themes. But the most beautiful themes needs Murrina engine.
The great advantage of "newbie distros" like Mint, Ubuntu or PCLinuxOS is that themes engines are installed by default and that it's very easy to install new engines via synaptic.

Last edited by wkr (2011-05-22 08:58:17)