<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> The way that I did it was to navigate to Computer|System Configuration|Login Screen Setup. There I selected the Graphical Greeter tab and clicked on Install New Theme. I then broswed to the compressed file that contained the theme I wanted to install and clicked Install. The new theme then showed up in the list of available themes. I hope this helps Gill volvoguy wrote: <blockquote cite="midacf3da30040921205979234d86@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:04:39 -0500, Ethan King <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ferrill@gmail.com"><ferrill@gmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I am relatively new to Linux and Ubuntu but it appears that using the default settings the first user created does not have the appropriate permissions to install new GDM themes like the ones found at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gnome-look.org/">http://www.gnome-look.org/</a>. Just wondering if that is really the case or if I am missing something. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I haven't tried that specifically, but it may just be something that you normally need to do as root. Try putting "sudo" in front of the command you're using now. It will prompt you for your password before it does anything. If you're trying to do it via a GUI, I don't have a clue. (man, I never thought I'd say that). :) Aaron </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>