X and Fluxbox :: Need help with fluxbox themes...



Hi everyone.
I've got my DSL HD installed and running beautifully.
Then, I've downloaded some nice fluxbox themes from freshmeat.net, but after having tried every technique taught by "DSL Wiki" I still can't get them installed. Could anyone help me here? Also is there anyway to deal with transparency on DSL?
Thanks a million in advance.
Tonko.
The DSL wiki probably speaks only of fluxbox themes available from the myDSL repository (which seems to be missing a link, by the way).  Those that you get from freshmeat have a different directory structure and will not install properly using myDSL.

What you get from freshmeat is simply a tar.gz or tar.bz2 file, usually containing the directories "styles" and "backgrounds".  If this is the case, extract the archive into /home/dsl/.fluxbox/
If what you have is just files with no directories, put any images in /home/dsl/.fluxbox/backgrounds, and the style file in /home/dsl/.fluxbox/styles.
If you have a "new" type of style, which includes theme.cfg and a pixmaps directory, you won't be able to use it in fluxbox stable.

Transparency of toolbar, menu, etc., is also not available n fluxbox stable.  You'd need fluxbox development version for that.
Thanks mikshaw!
Knowing that DSL's stable version of Fluxbox is this limited certainly helps.
But then again, here am I trying to install my new Fluxbox-0.9.14 "dev" version...
Since no other technique helps me with this, I've used the old "tar xzvf" for it but, so far nothing. The only thing I get is another directory in my /.
Anyway, I'll be researching around the net.
Any help there?:(
There is a fluxbox_0.9.14.uci myDSL extension in the "testing" section of the myDSL repository, and fluxbox-0.9.11.tar.gz in the "wm_apps" section.  Note: 0.9.11 uses its own configuration directory, and 0.9.14 uses the standard .fluxbox directory.

When installing myDSL extensions, use "mydsl-load filename" as user dsl rather than "tar xzvf".  If you got fluxbox from fluxbox.org you'll have trouble with it in DSL, since it is a source package.
Mikshaw, do the "new" styles work "out of the box" with the uci?  I'm using the uci version on my frugal install, but all I've done with it is add a couple of bits of transparency to my theme.  Might be cool to check out some themes that exploit more of the "cool" features...
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