Tuesday, February 26, 2008

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



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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8 comments:

  1. TimFebruary 26, 2008 at 4:29 AM

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

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  2. BRadFebruary 26, 2008 at 8:10 AM

    How do you undo the firefox grey-out?

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  3. UnknownFebruary 26, 2008 at 8:27 AM

    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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  4. BRadFebruary 26, 2008 at 8:31 AM

    tried that.. unfortunately that doesn't seem to work. =\

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 26, 2008 at 11:05 AM

    Make sure firefox isn't referencing the chrome that you deleted. Look up the information in about:config search for chrome in the filter. The setting called browser.chromeURL should be set to chrome://browser/content/

    if that doesn't work you are probably loading the wrong profile in firefox. goto yourhomedir/.mozilla/firefox open the profiles.ini look at the default profile see if its looking in the wrong dir. (not likely if you do the about:config method above)

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  6. ivantFebruary 26, 2008 at 11:31 PM

    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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  7. UnknownFebruary 27, 2008 at 6:22 AM

    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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  8. defconFebruary 27, 2008 at 12:29 PM

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

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