On 20140726_0639+0200, Bzzzz wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 22:26:02 -0600 > Paul Condon <pecond...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > on with my imperfect eye-hand coordination. I want the old Crux > > back. Is there a package of 'legacy' themes? What is its name? > > I don't know if it can be recovered; however, you could go in > /usr/share/themes as root, create your own theme directory, > copy the actual Crux theme in it and modify it according to > your needs. > This way, whatever the changes, you'll be able to keep it > the way you want.
Because of a totally different malfunction, I am using gmail to post my question to this list in spite of my total unfamiliarity in its proper use. Now I am unsure of how to link this reply into the thread started by my original post. There must be a way, in the gmail user interface, to post a reply to a list, but maybe not. Oh well. Back to composing the reply to Bzzzz: I found the theme collection where you said it would be. The content of a theme seems to be a collection of text files with names matching the expression '*.xpm' I know how to copy the whole lot of them into a different directory in a different place where I could modify them, but what is xpm? I think it might be possible for me to learn enough about xpm to make the change needed, if you can get me started. A question about what I found: In the themes directory, there is also a theme named 'Cruxish' (just after 'Crux' in alphabetical order), but in Xfce4 Applications Menu -> Settings -> Appearance Crux appears in the pick-list of themes, but Cruxish does not. Perhaps all I need to do is make Xfce4 offer me Cruxish? OTOH, your suggestion of making my own personal theme and squirreling it away somewhere where I can recover it across dist-upgrades and netinst is the better long term solution. Your advice? -- Paul E Condon
