Ubuntu Unleashed: Howto: Install new Slickness theme in Ubuntu Feisty Gutsy, and Heron

Howto: Install new Slickness theme in Ubuntu Feisty Gutsy, and Heron

Posted by defcon on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 12:41 AM

I ran across another slick theme, its called SlickNess, It is actually pretty slick, reminds me of the Ubuntu Studio theme with a few nice improvements, let me know what you think.
This baby is easy to install, here are the directions:

To install:
1.Download the file to your desktop from here
2.Right click the file and select extract here
3.open a terminal and run these commands:

sudo cp -r $HOME/Desktop/SlicknesS /usr/share/themes

sudo chmod 777 /usr/share/themes/SlicknesS/Slickness.jpg

Third (this one fixes firefox, This fix is made by user twrock, so if he wants me to delete it i will)
cp /usr/share/themes/SlicknesS/userChrome.css $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/chrome

Open the theme manager, you can now see the Slickness theme as a theme when you click on it , it suggests a wallpaper, click apply to apply the wallpaper!

the icon theme it suggests is this one:
black-white 2 Style big
Save the file in ~/.icons and extract the archive and go into System->Prefs->Appearance and Customize the Slickness theme and select icons and then black-white_style big and your done :)
Enjoy

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· 892 weeks ago

Good. But if you switch to another theme, FF menus are greyed out

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· 892 weeks ago

How do you undo the firefox grey-out?

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· 892 weeks ago

navigate to $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/chrome and delete the userChrome.css file you copied there.

This will return firefox to its default css

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· 892 weeks ago

Is there any reason why you mak ethe Slickness.jpg file executable and writable by all? 644 should be better than 777 here.

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· 892 weeks ago

Like the look generally. Not the font size/style or the power button icon. It would be nice to find a less busy background as well.

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· 892 weeks ago

I am not too fond of the icon theme as well, although the theme itself is pretty hot :)

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kaZoo · 881 weeks ago

How to remove patch for firefox.I'm new so can you please tell me.

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Kashif · 839 weeks ago

by applying ur theme all icon of application/palces/system become very small.. please help as this problem is only the single reason which stops me to use its theme.... overall all this theme rocks