I made this post at mepislovers. Today I edited it and decided it should go here as well.

Hello. AntiX only comes with a few themes. Here's how you can add a few more.

1. Open a terminal and become root.

* Step 2 can be skipped in antix mc7 and later.

2. Install the Murrina engine from the repo:

Code:

apt-get install gtk2-engines-murrine

3. Get some themes from


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Just enter"Murrina" or"Murrine" in the search field and download the interesting ones.

4. Create a folder for your themes in your home directory (not as root)

Code:

su user_name
mkdir ~/.themes

5. Launch rox and navigate to your download folder. Left-click a tar file, click the extract button in the next window, click ok on the pop-up window, and enter

~/.themes

when it asks you for the folder to extract to.

6. Choose your new theme: fluxbox > file editing > gtk2 themes

7. Now let's get synaptic to use the new theme. Open a terminal and su to root. And create a theme folder.

Code:

mkdir /home/root/.themes

8. Copy the theme folder to your new directory.

Code:

cp -r -v /home/username/.themes/themename /home/root/.themes

9. Now"set" the theme. sux to root and launch the gtk2 theme switcher.

Code:

gtk-theme-switch2

Note: This should work if you install your theme in /usr/share/themes, but I haven't tested it yet.

john

Note: Alternatively or additionally, you can install the clearlooks engine from the repo and install clearlooks themes from
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Thanks OU812 for the tip.

Feel free to add any others you posted on the MepisLovers forum, or other knowledge you have from using other distros.