Installing linux for use with a virtual pc.

[calumc]

or yo can type ''sudo thunar'' and you'll have a root view of everything and you can paste your extracted folder in

[luciusad2004]

Thanks guys. I got that working. Out of curiosity, is there a command that will let me extract to a certain directory or do i have to first extract and then move?

[.Maleficus.]

Thanks guys. I got that working. Out of curiosity, is there a command that will let me extract to a certain directory or do i have to first extract and then move?

Yes, there is, but I can't think of it right now.

Actually, try "tar xvzf *filename*.tar.gz && mv /path/to/folder /usr/share/themes".

[luciusad2004]

Ok Thanks, Ill try that as soon as i get a couple more downloaded.

[luciusad2004]

step 1. sudo thunar
step 2. right click delete
step 3. ...
step 4. profit (by learning the hard way)

Now i see the dangers of root, Luckily wubi is an easy reinstall.

I didn't completely frag my system but i thought i would get rid of theme files for themes i knew i wouldn't use. I apparently got rid of something important because after rebooting i discovered i had no window borders. I screwed around with it for a little bit by switching themes to see if it would bring them back but it didn't work. I just reinstalled, all is well that ends well.

On the positive side, i get more practice by reinstalling my downloaded themes (and this time ill save them to my data partition so they don't get lost if i have to reinstall again.)

[.Maleficus.]

So you got them to install? That's always good.

[luciusad2004]

Yep everything was going fine until i started deleting stuff. I had a problem with a couple of the themes not showing up they way they looked online but thats a minor issue.

I was sort of lost because when i was browsing through themes There was GTK2.x , some other version of GTK, and then xfce themes... i have no clue what the difference is but i thought maybe that might have had something to do with y some worked and some didn't. It wasn't that the ones that didn't work didn't work at all, just not as they appeared online.

I turned on compositing so i can use the transparency effects and window shadows. I thought that they would slow everything down but they aren't as bad as i thought they would be so i left them on. Windows draw noticeably slower but not enough to be bothersome. XFCE is much sexier than XP.

Thanks guys, I sent some rep to both of you a couple posts back

[.Maleficus.]

GTK+ is just a library of code written in C+, used with X. I guess you can think of it as a DirectX or OpenGL thing for X.

[luciusad2004]

ooooh i see. So would themes written to take advantage of this be flashier? And would it also use up more system resources?

[calumc]

The problem you have with them not showing up the way they look in the preview may be to do with the theme engine you are using.
I really have no idea if this is the case in XFCE or not but in gnome it drastically changes things.
If you are getting themes from xfce-look it should specify if they are using a different engine on the download page.
If it does require a different one it can probably be installed from synaptic.