Ok, I got themes down, I got the dock down, and a bunch of other stuff. The one thing I can't seem to accomplish is installing new icons, without installing a whole theme. I followed a similar how to on the Ubuntu forums with a user who was having the same problem. The end result that fixed it for that user was as follows.
3. within the themes preferences click on install theme
4. choose your icon pack from the desktop
5. all done! it should ask if you want to use it.
For me since I'm on Hardy, I've realized that "Themes" for me is "Appearance" Under the preferences tab. However, it won't let me install an Icon pack (tar.gz file) under it. And if I go to customize, and click the Icons tab, there's nothing I can do there, but look at the originals. Any help would gladly be appreciated. Thanks ahead of time Varnull, lol.
Maybe you need to extract the file and pick the index.theme file? Never used that import button, I seem to remember having all sorts of grief just like you and resorted to doing it through the command line as below.
You can do it manually really easily: extract it all to a new folder, and then move the directory to live under /usr/share/icons. Make sure the index.theme file is in the first folder, so for the grounation icons for instance, you'd be talking /usr/share/icons/grounation/index.theme.
Make sure the permissions all match the other folders in there, you should know how to do that, or be able to learn easily enough. Icons should by rights be visible then when you go to customise a theme.
Thanks Oz, that's one more check to add to the list of things to figure out in Linux. Let's see, looks like all I got left is Wine now, wish me luck. Thanks again
Wine is a piece of cake, most stuff should run without any need for tweaking, just install the package and you're laughing. There are some tutorials around for installing some native DLLs that may help, such as installing DirectX9 (installing is fine, just need to let Wine know to rely on some external files rather than its own). Then the appdb.winehq.org pages should fill in the blanks for anything that doesn't just run for you. If anything, getting Wine running should be easier than a lot of the stuff you've already done.
Edit: Score, looks like I've finally made Senior Member
I never install wine, but I did learn that it tends to work much better with a full set of windows dll's.. rip them from the system32 directory on a working xp machine :lol:
