Themes - theme's to have disappeared

[jnorris235]

Read another topic and learned of themes. Discovered more by accident than with guidance (such is the Linux world) that if you type 'themes' into Adept you get a load of stuff I dont understand but the theme this guy suggested was there. Noia.

Installed it. Went to System/Appearances and tried to add it - but it asked where it was. Surely in a folder called themes i thought - but no such luck.
Searched for file names like it but none worked.

Go on - tell me, please, how to install it? Thanks!

[jnorris235]

Re: Themes - theme's to have disappeared

How tiresome!
I learned this with some other things and forgot the lesson I'd learned.
You have to reboot at least twice and then things appear or work.
I wouldn't mind but one of the things 'selling' linux was how, unlike windows you did NOT have to reboot!!!

[Gezzer]

Re: Themes - theme's to have disappeared

i have to reboot when a new kernel is installed have never had a need to reboot for any other install

you could try restart X after a program install
ctrl+alt+backspace and see if that works ...

[Fenyx]

Re: Themes - theme's to have disappeared

Ok, first of all, Noia (kde-icons-noia) is not a "theme" but an icon set. So you will see it in System Settings > Appearance > Icons if it was installed.

Second, when you have installed a theme/icon set/style through Adept, you don't need to add it anymore in System Settings. It will already be sitting there. You only have to manually add stuff that you downloaded somewhere else.

Lastly, you really don't have to restart to make things work, specially graphical stuff. The only things that require a reboot would be kernel and networking changes. The rest you could either just log out and back in, or just restart X.

Hope that helps a bit.

[jnorris235]

Re: Themes - theme's to have disappeared

So far I've found rebooting has made Wine appear, after I assumed it had just disappeared up it's own install path. Certainly this Noia thing wuld not appear in System/Appearance - but after a reboot, it was there proud as you like. Something else did that too. Reboots seem mandatory on my brand new system!!

By 'adding' in System/Appearances I meant 'applying' - sorry which i did once it appeared in the list.

As for <You only have to manually add stuff that you downloaded somewhere else.> I downloaded another theme to my desktop, untarred it - then tried to tell the System/Appearances where it was and it just sniffed at every file I directed it to - and refused to accept any of them. Even the tarry thing in the first place!