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Posted: April 21 2005,02:10 QUOTE
Hi all,

How in the world can I change the "style" of my installed DSL 0.92?  This system has no CD, network or internet connection, but I did manage to get the files on it for a poor man's install.  Then I used the "dsl-hdinstall" script to do a real hard drive install.  All I have is v. 0.92, so that's what I used (I'm on a dial up, so even a 50mb download is huge for me).

I got the install set up OK, and found a really nice OSX-like style I want to use (OSX-Graphite-2.6.tar.bz2) from the Flux site, but how do I install it?  I searched the hard drive for anything that might look like Flux or style settings... where are they?  How do I use this ".tar.bz2" file?  Yeah, I'm a newbie and this "simple task" has me stumped...

Thanks,

Paul
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Posted: April 21 2005,03:35 QUOTE
Untar and unbz2 the style file and copy the style into your

/home/dsl/.fluxbox/styles

directory.  FYI, files and directories that begin with a "." are hidden in Linux and you should push the "H" button in emelfm to make them visible.

Something like this. Open an xterminal window and type:

tar -jxvf OSX-Graphite-2.6.tar.bz2 -C /home/dsl/.fluxbox/styles/

It should work unless the file is tarred into a subdirectory. Then you will need to use Emelfm to copy the file back up to the directory mentioned above.
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Posted: April 21 2005,16:28 QUOTE
Ok, I did as you suggested and now have a  /home/dsl/.fluxbox/styles/OSX-Graphite-Normal/ directory that contains the "theme.cfg" file and "pixmaps" directory.

Now how do I load this style?  Should it appear in the menu or do I have to manually add it to the menu?

Thanks,

Paul
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Posted: April 21 2005,16:35 QUOTE
It should automatically appear in the Fluxbox menu at the bottom of the list.

Unless this style is intended for a newer development version of Fluxbox instead of the stable Fluxbox program that comes built into DSL.

If so, there is a fluxbox dev extension in the mydsl repository.
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Posted: April 21 2005,20:55 QUOTE
I think cbagger is correct.  The "theme.cfg" styles are a more recent addition, and may not work in flux stable.  The pixmaps at least won't work.

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