Metacity Themes?

[Hugh Caley]

That doesn't sound right.  According to the Help available from the 
Themes control panel, the theme should be tarred and gzip'd when you 
install it.  I did try tar -zxf on one and got a directory that the 
installer didn't know what to do with.

Hugh


>     * /From/: Tommy Eliassen <pusle pusle com>
>     * /To/: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
>       <fedora-test-list redhat com>
>     * /Subject/: Re: Metacity Themes?
>     * /Date/: Sat, 01 May 2004 01:47:42 +0200
>
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>
>     Are themes broken in Test 3? I can use the pre-installed themes,
>     but I can't seem to install any new ones; the list of themes
>     doesn't get updated.
>
>     Hugh
>
>
> I may be totally off here, but to get themes installed, I first 
> downloaded the skin (ofcourse..), then I tar -xvzf'it, installed the 
> .tar file and then installed the .theme file (from the theme dialog). 
> It seemed to work for me, but I may have been drunk at the time since 
> it was friday night, and I have saturday off.
>
> -Tommy-


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