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6 xfce-theme-manager - A theme manager for Xfce
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9 xfce-theme-manager [option.1] ... [option.N]
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12 This manual page documents briefly xfce-theme-manager.
13 xfce-theme-manager is a theme manager allowing easy configuration of
14 themes, window borders, controls, icons, backdrops, cursors etcetera
15 for Xfce4.
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18 When xfce-theme-manager starts, the user can do any of the following
19 [Reset Theme]
21 Discard all changes.
22 [Save Theme]
24 Enter a custom theme name to save/delete, you can also quickly delete a
25 custom theme by control-clicking a custom theme thumbnail.
26 [About]
28 Credits and stuff.
29 [Advanced Tab]
31 [Rebuild DB]
33 Rebuild the database.
34 [Xfce-Composite-Editor]
36 Run the composite editor (if installed).
37 Available here:
38 http://keithhedger.hostingsiteforfree.com/zips/Xfce4-Composite-Edi‐
39 tor.ta r.gz
40 You need to have gtkdialog version 0.8.x and BASH installed To run the
41 Composite Editor.
42 [Backdrop Adjustments]
44 Set Brightness/Saturation of the wallpaper.
45 [Button Layout]
47 The layout of close, maximize etc. (some themes may overide this).
48 [Title Position]
50 Placement of the window title, (some themes may overide this).
51 [Font Selection]
53 Title bar/application font.
54 [Cursor Size]
56 Set the cursor size if the cursor theme suports it, some do some don't.
57 [View Options]
59 [Show system Themes]
60 Show globally installed theme parts.
61 [Only show Custom Themes]
63 Only shows meta themes that you have created, auto generated meta
64 themes are not shown.
65 [Themes]
67 Show globally installed meta themes.
68 [Window Borders]
70 Show globally installed Xwm4 themes.
71 [Controls]
73 Show globally installed Gtk themes.
74 [Icons]
76 Show globally installed icon themes.
77 [Cursors]
79 Show globally installed mouse themes.
80 [Wallpapers]
82 Show globally installed wallpapers.
83 Locally installed themes parts are always shown except for meta themes
85 if the [Only show Custom Themes] is checked.
86 You can quickly delete a custom theme by holding control and clicking
87 on the thumbnail, only custom themes you have created can be deleted
88 and only the database entry is removed nothing is uninstalled from your
89 system.
90 To install a theme/gtk/icon/cursor/border/wallpaper just drag and drop
91 the archive (wallpapers should not be archived) anywhere on the main
92 window and if posible the theme etc will be installed into the correct
93 place, all installations are local, supported archive types are:
94 "*.tgz","*.gz","*.zip","*.ta r","*.bz2", supported wallpaper types are:
95 "*.jpg","*.png","*.bmp","*.gif" anything else you will have to install
96 yourself.
97 You must have unzip installed to drag 'n' drop .zip files.
99 The thumbnails are stored in ${HOME}/.config/XfceThemeManager.
101 The DB is updated automatically on drag'n'drop, if you do a lot of
103 adding and removing of themes/icons etc you may want to run Re-build DB
104 from the advanced tab.
105 Meta Themes are themes that contain a gtk2 folder and an xfwm4 folder
107 (ie window frames and controls), if there is a gnome-like "theme.index"
108 file that also specifies an icon set this will be used as well.
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111 -v, --version
112 Print version info and quit.
113 -u, --update-db
115 Update the database.
116 -r, --build-db
118 Re-build the database.
119 -n, --nogui
121 Don't run the GUI.
122 -t, --theme=ARG
124 Set the meta-theme to ARG.
125 -c, --controls=ARG
127 Set the controls theme to ARG.
128 -w, --wmborder=ARG
130 Set the window border to ARG.
131 -i, --icons=ARG
133 Set the icon theme to ARG.
134 -p, --cursors=ARG
136 Set the cursor theme to ARG.
137 -b, --backdrop=ARG
139 Set wallpaper to ARG.
140 -m, --monitor
142 Set monitor for wallpaper default 0
143 -m can be used multiple times on the command line,
144 the last value is used, this allows you to set wallpapers for
145 multple monitors in one go.
146 -a, --panel=ARG
148 Set which panel to change ( default is 1 )
149 -a can be used multiple times on the command line,
150 the last value is used, this allows you to set multple panel data
151 in one go.
152 -z, --panel-size=ARG
154 Set panel size to ARG
155 -y, --panel-style=ARG
157 Set panel style to ARG
158 -g, --panel-image=ARG
160 Set path to panel image to ARG
161 -d, --panel-alpha=ARG
163 Set panel alpha to ARG, range 0-100
164 -o, --panel-colour=ARG
166 Set panel colour to ARG in hex format ie ff00ff
167 ARG MUST be exactly 6 hex characters.
168 -l, --list=ARG
170 List DB entry's, where ARG = any of "*Ctwcib".
171 Where 'C' prints custom themes, 't' prints themes, 'w' prints win‐
173 dow borders, 'c' prints controls 'i' prints icons and 'b' prints back‐
174 drops. If the first/only character is a '*' then all entry's are
175 printed.
176 -?, --help
178 Print help.
179 Options tcwipblvh? all imply -n.
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183 A number of example scripts for command line usage can be found in
184 /PREFIX/share/Xfce-Theme-Manager/scripts.
185 RandomGTK
187 Set a random gtk theme.
188 RandomWMBorder
190 Set a random window maanger border.
191 RandomWallpaper
193 Set a random wallpaper on all monitors.
194 RandomAll
196 Do all of the above - WARNING! this can create some eye watering combi‐
197 nations!
198 SequentialGTK
200 Every time the script is run the next gtk theme in a sorted list is
201 used.
202 SequentialWMBorder
204 Every time the script is run the next in a sorted window maanger bor‐
205 der list is used.
206 SequentialWallpaper
208 Every time the script is run the next in a sorted wallpaper list is
209 used.
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213 Xfce-Theme-Manager was written by Keith Hedger
214 This manual page was written by Eduardo Echeverria <echevemas‐
216 ter@gmail.com>, for the Fedora project (and may be used by others),
217 Amended by Keith Hedger, Translated by Pablo Morales Romero
218 <pg.morales.romero@gmail.com> (Spanish), Martin F. Schumann
219 <mfs@mfs.name> (German), Michał Olber (Polish), Moatib
220 <moatib@ymail.com> (French).
221K.D.Hedger 0.3.4 XFCE-THEME-MANAGER(1)