Thanks to Brady and Andy for the help with themes.  I had missed
the distinction between gtk themes and sawfish themes.  The gnome
configuration tool I was using assumed they were gtk themes and
installed them in ~/.themes, but they needed to be in
~/.sawfish/themes.  It really is the .sawfish theme I'm trying to
change; I have this problem that right clicking in the button on
the top left side of the window kills it at home, but opens the
pull down menu at work and vice-versa for left clicking...

Guess I'll just live with the defaults which aren't too painful.

Still working on the embossed logo problem....

Thanks again,

Rob




On 2 Jan 2002, Brady Hegberg wrote:

> 1.  You may be running into a conflict between gmc and Nautilus here. 
> Try shutting down gmc by selecting "Commands/Exit".  If you want to use
> gmc (I know I do) start up gmc using the command "gmc --nodesktop".
> 
> 2.  Like Andy said.
> 
> Brady
> 
> > Hi all
> > 
> > I have a couple of straightforward questions on configuring the
> > gnome desktop under RedHat 7.2.
> > 
> > 1. I have a .bmp file I'm using as wallpaper on my gnome desktop
> > and would like to use the "embossed logo" option under the gnome
> > control center because it looks cool.  I'm using gnome with the
> > sawmill window manager and letting the nautilus file manager draw
> > the home and trash icons on the desktop.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, the original graphic is getting written over the
> > top of the embossed logo.  I see the embossed logo as the sawmill
> > splash screen disappears after logging in, but then the original
> > graphic seems to overwrite it.
> > 
> > Anyone seen this?  Do you just have to live without embossed logo
> > wallpaper if you're using nautilus to draw the desktop icons?
> > 
> > 
> > 2.  I've downloaded a couple of themes I'd like to install.  The
> > RedHat "getting started" guide says that I can open the theme
> > manager from the control center and click on "install new theme"
> > to install them; the new theme should then appear in the theme
> > list.  I do this and nothing happens.  Do I have to be root or
> > something?
> > 
> > Thanks for any help you can give.  
> > 
> > Rob
> > 
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