I’m trying to install a theme, but I can’t find the .themes folder.
I googled for it and found ~./themes and trying to extract there resulted in an error.
where does it live?
(openSuse 11.2/Xfce 4.6)
thanks
Hello VolumetricSteve,
The folder is in your home directory.
The dot means it is a hidden folder.
You can go to this folder by entering this in your filebrowsers addressbar:
/home/<USER>/.themes
Or go to your home folder and select View->Show Hidden folders. (I’m not sure if this is right)
Then select the .themes folder.
Good luck!
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I thought it’d be something like that, but I don’t see any .themes folder.
I see a LOT of .something folders, like .adobe, .dbus, .config and .cache just to name a few, but no .themes.
do I have to make it? that wouldn’t make any sense, seeing as the system has themes already, just very cleverly hidden somewhere, what gives?
thanks for your help so far
******EDIT
against all good judgement, I tried making a .themes folder where you said I should find one.
It worked, my new theme is now loading into the themes list. where are the default system themes hiding? (not that it matters, it’s just dumb they’re not in the normal themes folder)
Plus, why is this a hidden folder? People wanna trade out themes all the time, why isn’t it just a normal, visible folder? thanks again
Hello VolumetricSteve,
Good to hear it works!
If I’m not mistaking the system themes are in the folder /usr/share/themes/.
This is actually the normal folder.
When they are in there every user can use them.
But if you install a theme in /home/<USER>/.themes only you can use it.
I agree it’s hard to find, but I also don’t want to have a themes folder in my home dir.
Good luck!