Howto: Install themes on Xubuntu

I didn’t thought there was any good guide of how to install themes on Xubuntu so I decided to write one.

First step is to lookup a style you want, www.xfce-look.org is a great website to custom your Xubuntu.

Murrine themes
If the theme is a Murrine style (often named murrina/murrine) you need to install murrine engine. Simply write:
sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-murrine in Terminal.
If there is any problem or if you don’t run Xubuntu, check out http://www.cimitan.com/murrine/ for more info.

Installing themes
Next, we need to unpack the theme into ~/.themes , .themes is under /home and its hidden, to show all hidden files just do as follow while you are unpacking your theme

Next, unpack your theme in the map .themes. The folderstrukture should look like, Username/.themes/themename/gtk-2.0

Select the new theme
Now we have installed our theme, so the next step is to select it, goto Applications > Settings > User interface settings.
Select your theme and you are all set. Now keep customizing your themes, a good menu to reach all custom settings is Applications > Settings > Settings manager.

Icons

To install icons just do as you did with the themes, but unpack the icon stylepack in the hidden folder /.icons
If you can’t find the folder you have to create it.

Good luck, if you got any problems or something else that i could do better, just post a comment about it.