installing themes

Michael Knepher mknepher at bluethingy.com
Thu Aug 9 23:38:15 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 17:17 -0600, cj wrote:
> im running regular ubuntu 7.04 (i dont know how to make that more specific)
> . im not running KDE, XFCE, or any other fancy stuff. im running Gnome.
> 
> the theme im trying to install (from gnome-look.org) is titled "orange-xmms"
> 
> it downloads as a tarball
> 
> every time i go to load it into the gnome theme thing (system > 
> preferences > Theme), it tells me that the file format is invalid.
> 
> WHY is it telling me that???!!!!??!
> --cj
> 

Because it's not a Gnome/GTK theme - it's for the xmms audio player.
Extract it to ~/.xmms/







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