how to add new themes in xfce

[dancp]

how to add new themes in xfce?
I need a step by step thanks so much

[Jomiel]

Hi there,

if your talking about themes for the XFCE-windowmanager (xfwm4), thats easy. Open thunar and use show hidden files. There should be a folder called .themes, if not make one. Now decompress your desired theme to this folder. So it should look like this /home/userName/.themes/themeName/xfwm4.

With that done you need to select the new theme. Go to the menu -> settings -> settings -> appearence. Then select your new installed theme.

cheers
Jomiel

[dancp]

hey
dang that was easy thanks again
danny

[Jomiel]

No Problem.

The only downside is, that only one user can select the new theme. To make it selectable for all users, use the folder in /usr/share/themes instead (requires root privileges). Installing new icon themes is pretty the same. The only difference is the foldername. It's icons (or .icons in the home folder).

cheers
Jomiel