Re: Control over Sato theme

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2013-02-14 08:13, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 14 February 2013 15:08, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>> What's the best way to install/use one of these? (while I may have been
>> using X since version 10.2, I seldom mess with such things and don't
>> really know the best starting point)
>>
>> For example, I downloaded 'ClearLooks Dark Orange' which gave me a single
>> file "Clearlooks-DarkOrange/gtk-2.0/gtkrc".  How do I install this and
>> make it stick on my target?
>
> Good choice, I used that for many years.  :)
>
> Package it up so it installs into
> /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks-DarkOrange/gtk-2.0/gtkrc.
>
> Then you'll want to override matchbox-desktop-sato which sets the
> default theme name, change Sato to Clearlooks-DarkOrange.

Sorry to be dense, but I'm unclear what you mean here.

I didn't find any mention of Sato in the matchbox-desktop-sato package,
but I did in matchbox-session-sato.  It was mentioned in /etc/matchbox/session:
   exec matchbox-window-manager -theme Sato -use_desktop_mode decorated -use_cursor $SHOWCURSOR $@

I tried changing that line to be
   exec matchbox-window-manager -theme Clearlooks-DarkOrange -use_desktop_mode decorated -use_cursor $SHOWCURSOR $@
but I got this error:
   unable to open theme: /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks-DarkOrange/matchbox/theme.xml

None of the themes that I've downloaded include a theme.xml file.
Where do they come from?  generated by some process?

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