Suppose I am trying some distro (with Gnome) and I like some theme. How can I copy for installation in another computer?
2 Answers
Usually GTK themes that installed by package manager stored is /usr/share/themes
. When you install theme as user, it sets in .themes
directory in your home.
You can just copy directory with the same name as theme you like into the same directory in another computer (to /usr/share/themes
if you want use it system-wide, or in ~/.themes
).
Also you can check the index.theme and look for dependencies. For example this picture shows that the themes "elementary", "eHomosapien", "elementary-monochrome" and "Shere_Khan_X" are also needed for "PinguyOS" theme to work well.
Finally, to change the pointer the following is needed since Ubuntu 10.10:
Edit this file:
gksu gedit /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme
and add the theme you want (see this example:)
Than restart compiz:
compiz --replace
Open terminal and
type
sudo nautilus
go to
/usr/share/themes
You will see some folders with the name of the themes installed.
copy the folder of the theme you were looking for and keep it somewhere else.
when u want 2 use the same theme on another computer copy the folder. again open terminal and typesudo nautilus
again go to
/usr/share/themes
and paste it there. then apply the theme using Gnome Tweak Tool