Change Theme and button style

[Member pylades]

Good afternoon Experts!
Honesty speaking I’m a linux rooky using is instead of W@home.
Despite some learning items like desktop icons to be understood – are aleady explained in the forum,
I’d like to know the way to change the desktop theme, to make it more appealing.
I’m thinking about icon themes and esp such tweaks like emac style window buttons – colourful dots etc.
Like macish
Do you know the way to download such themes and to enable it? I’m sure somebody did it already.
Regards Pylades

[Member ModdIt]

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Hi pylades, before we can help please help us. Which desktop you are using is absolute minimum we need to know. :-).
Better is include CPU and available Memory so we know whether you must stay as light as possible.

[Member Xecure]

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There are 3 (or maybe 4) different things you can change in antiX, which will let you customize your system in different ways:

1 – Window Manager theme (panel, menu, window decorations). This depends on what window manager you are using (icewm, jwm and fluxbox are done differently). Let us assume you are using icewm. You can first test the different icewm themes (Menu > Themes > select from there).There is a big collection there. If you want something different, search for “icewm themes” and there are different websites that have a collection of different themes for you to choose from.

2 – Application themes (GTK and QT themes). Most applications in antiX with graphical interface will use the GTK or QT graphical library, and their appearance will change if you also change the gtk/qt theme. Use the “Customize Look and Feel” entry in the Control Centre to access an application that lets you select a different theme, font and font size (and other related options). For qt themes, you need to use the qt5ct program (you can launch it form App Select).

3 – Application icons. From the same program as in 2. you can select different Icon themes, which will change the icons you see in some graphical interfaces, in the Applications submenu and on the icons on the desktop.

For all 3 options, you can install new themes using the package manager (search for icon themes, gtk2/3 theme, icewm themes) or download them from other places on the internet and manually move them to the corresponding folder (some can be installed using the LXappearance application mentioned in 2.).
For the window manager themes, you need to move them to the thems (or styles for fluxbox) folder inside the hidden window manager folder in /home/user/, and then use the window manager menu to change the theme.

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[Anonymous]

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(search for icon themes, gtk2/3 theme, icewm themes) or download them from other places on the internet

I worry that such an overly general description risks having the seeker wind up attempting to “install from peepee, eh”

Maybe we can agree to point ’em here:

I don’t recall the details, but mxforum has a topic describing use of a “(re)packaged by MXteam” helper application, available from mx repo (and, possibly, it is now offered via antiX packageinstaller) ~~ providing easy peasy install of pling-hosted theme packs. IIRC, the user pastes URL of a pling item page and the utility downloads then installs to ~/.local/share/{fonts,themes}. I can’t recall whether the utility maintains a list of installed items, enabling one-click removal of an item (themepack) the user deems undesirable after having test-driven it. I do recall that I audited the (pythonic) code of that helper utility and found nothing objectionable, security-wise.

[Anonymous]

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I’m thinking about icon themes and esp such tweaks like emac style window buttons – colourful dots etc.
Like macish

keying on the “like macish” comment (idunno emacs), I’ll mention that one of the themers sharing their themesets via pling.com does have a collection of 12+ (20ish?) gtk2/3 themesets intended to mimic the various Mac/Apple/SnowPonyLeopard desktop environments.

aside:
Toward “learning by example” I had downloaded and examined these and discovered that particular themer has shown very good attention to detail. The css within his their Mac and WinXP themes provided enlightenment toward howto tweak the css attributes of nearly every gtk widget.

[Member pylades]

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Hello Gents, thank You for all the constructive support and links. I will do the research & try out to customize my systems:
1. I have it one on my atom N455 2GB netbook as Guinea pig – dualboot [next to naked Win10]. Win10 You can imagine is impossible to use, just laggy. I’m keeping it to be able to show the difference. Antix runs just OK, quick, no lag, consuming ca 115 MB RAM at the start. It is much much faster than Lubuntu and faster&leaner than Puppy Xenial. Puppy is a bit more user friendly, can substitute Win easily.
2. on USB 3.0 for various laptops, there are no RAM limits, there are >I5 and >8 GB RAM on board. So this I’d like to make more attked ractive. I use rox-icewm on both.
Please understand my 1st question. I grew up on Win so I need to change my thinking now, to learn.
FYI – for both cases I’m keen to have a lean system, hate the blown up Win or Ubuntu pushing us for a new hardware. That’s all. But a bit of eye-candy is always welcome. howgh

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