How to have black Puppy theme?

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BlackWhizz
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How to have black Puppy theme?

#1 Post by BlackWhizz »

Hi guys,

First: Sorry for my bad English, im from the Netherlands.

So, i need a black, or transparent theme for puppy. I want the whole desktop black with just white text and some icons. Im just bad at Linux, but i managed to install it and it works.

So, where can i find it and how to install it?

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Re: How to have black Puppy theme?

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BlackWhizz wrote:So, i need a black, or transparent theme for puppy. I want the whole desktop black with just white text and some icons. Im just bad at Linux, but i managed to install it and it works.

So, where can i find it and how to install it?
This one should be nice and easy. Right click on any icon, choose Rox-Filer>Options>Pinboard and change the background to black and the text to white. Then remove the file root>Choices>ROX-background.jpg, which is the current image being displayed, then restart ROX (reboot).

That should do it (I hope).
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#3 Post by BlackWhizz »

The background was already black.

I just need the taskbar black with white letters.

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#4 Post by alienjeff »

Look at these files:

/root/.jwmrc
/root/.jwmrc-tray
/root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal

...and this link: http://joewing.net/programs/jwm/config.shtml
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re: How to have a black Puppy theme

#6 Post by ravensrest »

The easiest way I have found is to delete or comment out the

<backdrop.../>

line in /usr/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin, but note that it is automatically reconstituted if you subsequently select a wallpaper using the wallpaper setter.

Then open ROX-Filer and go to options-->pinboard. There you can set the foreground/background/shadow colors and text you want.

Another way you can do it is to create a solid color picture in gimp and save it to /usr/share/backgrounds. It then becomes available to the wallpaper setter. The advantage of this method is that by using scale/center/stretch... you can make it cover all or part of the screen only.

Bruce B

#7 Post by Bruce B »

I think what's wanted is something like shown in the picture below?

True?
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#8 Post by Rhino »

There is also a black theme for JWM here.
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