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allroy.de

allroy.de

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allroy.de is a personal web site about GNU/Linux, *BSD, and more

::themes and such

gdeskcal

gDeskCal is a calendar for your desktop. It features transparency with alpha-blending. Its appearance can be changed completely by using skins. It can also read and display your Evolution appointments, if you have any... My skin can be downloaded from there as well.

gdeskcal-tombo1-128.png
gdeskcal-tombo1-128.png

Window Maker

So you just installed Window Maker and think it's really useful, bloatless, etc. But you wonder how to change its appearance. So here we go. Get a theme somewhere, and unpack its contents to /usr/share/WindowMaker/Themes (at least on Mandrake 10.2rc2 that is the path) for system use, or inside your home directory to ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes.

You could use the menu entry in your root menu to change WM's appearance, but perhaps you screwed it up and still want to change the theme. Open up a terminal and call setstyle /path/to/Theme/style. This way you can also test a theme without installing it. Iy you have a theme that's really old (its directory in not called name.themed) this won't work, because Window Maker can't find the associated pixmaps, unless you copied them to the Pixmaps directory.

My Window Maker themes

Here's a list of my Window Maker themes. If you move the cursor over the theme name, you can see a small screenshot.

Info how to create themes for Window Maker still missing. Get my themes at freshmeat.net or search for other themes.

Xmms

Same for xmms.

Sylpheed-Claws

tom_2.x for sylpheed-claws

My second theme for Sylpheed-Claws can be downloaded from www.allroy.de/Downloads/tom_2.1.2.tar.bz2. This one features new icons for 'trash_btn.xpm' and 'sylpheed_icon.xpm'. Older versions are still available and the changelog is here.

  • tom 2.1.1: February 3, 2004. Added icons for mime types. New icon for vcard.xpm, gpg_signed.xpm is smaller.
  • tom 2.1: October 25, 2003. New icons added. Most are based on the muevo-mail icon.
  • tom 2: Original release.

If you want to install and use themes for Sylpheed-Claws, these are the instructions from the README file. They are valid for Sylpheed-Claws < 0.9.8

claws-tom-2.1.1.png
claws-tom-2.1.1.png

a. installation as user
cd ~/.sylpheed/themes
tar xjf tom_2.tar.bz2
b. installation for system use
su
Password:
cd /usr/local/share/sylpheed/themes
tar xjf tom_2.tar.bz2

Replace `/usr/local` with the prefix where you installed sylpheed-claws, if necessary you will need to create the `themes` directory if it does not already exist.

c. using
  1. After installation, run sylpheed
  2. Go to `Configuration / Common Preferences`
  3. Move to the `Interface` tab
  4. Select "tom_2" from the list in the `Pixmap Theme` section
  5. Press the `Apply` button
d. using and installing with Sylpheed-Claws >= 0.9.9
  1. Run sylpheed-claws
  2. Go to `Configuration / Other Preferences`
  3. Choose `Display / Themes`
  4. Select 'theme_name' from the drop-down list in the `selector` section
  5. Press the `use this` button `actions` section
  6. To install a theme untar the archive
  7. Go to `Configuration / Other Preferences`
  8. Choose `Display / Themes`
  9. Click the 'Install new' button and locate the theme directory.
  10. For system use see b above
e. notes and copyrights

All pixmaps included in this theme were done by Jakub Steiner aka Jimmac. I just downloaded some icons from his homepage, decided which icon to use and converted them to xpm. Some icons consist of two ore more pngs that are pasted together. This is my second attempt to do a theme for sylpheed-claws, hence the name.

Everaldo Kids for sylpheed-claws

The icons for this theme were taken from Everaldo's web site, they belong to a set called "Kids". For usage instructions see above. You can get the theme here or here.

I released a new version of "Everaldo Kids" today. It features new icons for 'trash_btn.xpm' and 'sylpheed_icon.xpm'. As always you can get it from allroy.de or freshmeat.