How Does One Change to the Theme Wallpaper?

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How Does One Change to the Theme Wallpaper?

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Started 1 year ago by wmichaelb
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wmichaelb
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After a fair amount of reading forums and checking Bodhi Linux, Unity Linux, PCLOS/Enlightenment, etc., I tried the following:

Settings/Settings Panel/Screen/Screen Lock/Wallpaper, I click on Custom.
Next, I go to Look/Theme/Advanced, clear the check marks on the left, and
Assign the Calm-3 background. I click on apply, the whole display recycles,
and ... nothing changes. And when I go back to Screen Lock/Wallpaper, the
system has reset itself from Custom to Theme Wallpaper.

What am I missing here? The Wallpaper switcher works, but I can't access the
wallpaper from the theme itself. I'm happy to do it via CLI if that works.

Thanks once more for your patience, kind support, and hours spent putting
together this wonderful distro.

Posted 1 year ago #
runtt21
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What theme are you wanting to use with what background?

Posted 1 year ago #
wmichaelb
Member

runtt21: The calm-3 theme and background together would be great.

Thanks again!

Posted 1 year ago #
runtt21
Moderator

To use the calm-3 theme just go menu-settings-theme in the theme selector chose personal and then the calm-3 theme and apply.

Posted 1 year ago #
wmichaelb
Member

John: thank you, sir, but I tried that before. The wallpaper does not change.

Posted 1 year ago #
runtt21
Moderator

The only way the wallpaper wont change backgrounds when changing themes is if you have set the wallpaper to something else specific.By default macpup is set up to use the theme background. Try menu-settings-wallpaper and check "use theme wallpaper" and apply. If it dose not change to the theme you have change something else that is stopping it.

Posted 1 year ago #
runtt21
Moderator

In the setting panel screen-Wallpaper need to be set to theme defined. Look-wallpaper need to be set to use theme wallpaper. Those are the defaults.

Posted 1 year ago #
wmichaelb
Member

John: thank you, sir, that did it. The problem was that the calm theme yields black print on a dark background for the menus, and at first I couldn't see the selection to make. Now that I know how the system works, I'll play with some other themes and this background.

You've helped me resurrect an old PIII laptop (12AU7's in the output drivers!) from the software dead. Puppy is the only distro I've found that has drivers for the oddball chip set this old Toshiba has, and now it has a modern desktop as well. I have no idea how you manage to get all this done and still have patience with end users, but many thanks to you.

Posted 1 year ago #
runtt21
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Here is something else to play with since you like that background. The theme is installed in a hidden folder in root. Open ROX ,that is the folder on the ibar. Click on the eye to show hidden folders then go to .e/e/themes. Open a second Rox and go into /working. Drag and drop the calm-3.edj from the theme folder into working, select copy,DONT MOVE IT. Close the Rox in /themes.Open a terminal in /working and run this edje_decc calm-3.edj It will complain about something with pthreads, just ignore it, it works fine. That will make a new folder with all the stuff that is in the theme. You can find the background and use it to make a new background.edj file with it that you can use with any theme.

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