You will need:
1. An internet connection
2. Ubuntu or any of its derivatives (which supports ppas). 10.04 and 10.10 should be fine.
3. 3d acceleration enabled (for eg compiz working).
Steps:
1. Download the Installer from below, and save it (if your browser tries to open it, try the alternate link.)
2. right click the installer. go to permissions, and make it executable.
3. double-click the installer, click on "Run in terminal" when prompted (v imp. you have to run in terminal).
4. A terminal will popup. Enter ur password (user password. it wont show, thats normal). Let it do its job. When prompted, always choose yes (or 'Y')
5. it should close in sometime.
6. log out and log back in, and go to System>>Preferences>>Appearance
7. Choose "Black Glass" as your theme
*the rest of the instructions are for the window borders, which will need emerald. If you dont like emerald, you can skip the rest*
8.Download & install the theme Ambiance Maverick Glass from here: http://tinyurl.com/amglass
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If Nautilus elementary doesn't get installed (ie you still have regular nautilus), you may need to do this (mostly NOT needed now since the ppa is back into action):
1. Go to system>>Administration>>synaptic package manager
2. search for "nautilus"
3. select it. then Edit>>Force version.
4. select a different version. (1:2.32.0~0ubuntu6~ppa160 worked for me). Click apply. It'll ask to downgrade, so do this only if you're fine with downgrading nautilus. Then once you get nautilus elementary, make sure you lock the nautilus version just as you forced it.
To get blurring of things behind transparent windows, you must install compizconfig-settings-manager (advanced). Then go to System>>Preferences>>Compiz... and enable Blur. Tweak it a bit to get the perfect blur.
To prevent some windows from getting transparent (like gedit, which lags with transparency for me), you need to add the line (NOT needed now since the installer DOES it for you):
export GTK_RGBA_APPS=allbut:gedit
to ~/.profile. add other apps seperated by commas.
I haven't tried this on a fresh install, since I cant get compiz to work in vbox. If there are any problems, letting me know would be really helpful
Ratings & Comments
15 Comments
Does it works on Arch?
I installed this theme on debian squeeze and i got this issue with libnotify or notification-daemon in this picture https://picasaweb.google.com/105759709073581298114/Issue#5659881609727479666 the notification is changed when i installed this theme in this picture https://picasaweb.google.com/105759709073581298114/Issue#5659881735895970802 the volume notification it's down don't change and i like this one looks "i'm sorry if i had bad english i speak spanish" :D
I installed this theme on debian squeeze and i got this issue with libnotify or notification-daemon in this picture https://picasaweb.google.com/105759709073581298114/Issue#5659881609727479666 the notification is changed when i installed this theme in this picture https://picasaweb.google.com/105759709073581298114/Issue#5659881735895970802 the volume notification it's down don't change and i like this one looks "i'm sorry if i had bad english i speak spanish" :D
I know I'm replying almost a year late, and I'm really sorry for not replying earlier bro but since the release of gtk 3 this theme became obsolete, and i could not continue maintaining this project. I dont really like gtk that much now, and i'm primarily using KDE now. Just wanted to free myself of the guilt of ignoring the comment :)
Is nautilus..I mean... the file manager... how I do to have the controls on left
Soooo how do I uninstall it if I want to?? It's screwing up my screensaver big time.
Ooh. Maybe the latest murrine engine's screwing up the screensaver. anyways, to uninstall, run these one at a time: Quote:sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:am-monkeyd/nautilus-elementary-ppa
sudo ppa-purge ppa:erik-b-andersen/rgba-gtk
Those commands should completely remove the latest murrine engine and nautilus elementary. After that, a restart (logging out & back in might also do) should revert everything. Then change the theme back to whatever u had via system>>preferences>>appearance.
If you also want to remove the theme (which'll just act as a normal non-transparent theme after the above commands),
Quote:sudo rm -R /usr/share/themes/BlackGlass
sudo rm -R /usr/share/themes/Black\ Glass
And you also have to run this, preferably before everything else (sry I forgot) Quote:sudo apt-get remove gnome-color-chooser gtk2-module-rgba
then:
Quote:gedit ~/.profile
and remove the line
Quote:export GTK_RGBA_APPS=allbut:totem:gedit:soffice:firefox-bin:cheese:gnome-panel
Hi,is there a way to restore the system back to its previous state that was before installing this theme?I mean that the transparency now works with all themes.
yea :) >Go to system>>preferences>>gnome color chooser >go to the "engines" tab >click on "revert". >click on "apply" everything should be normal. At the most, log out and log back in.
How do you get the Emerald transparent windows to work? I followed the instructions onthe Ambiance-Maverick-Glass page but windows still not transparent :-(
Emerald should be transparent by default (its a property of the theme.) You might still be seeing the metacity borders. Try pressing alt+f2 and typing in "emerald --replace". If that fixes the problem, then switch to emerald from metacity using fusion-icon. Otherwise try editing the emerald theme, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't have anything to do with the theme.
Yes that worked, it changed the window borders to transparent, however the gnome panels and the drop down menus still didn't have transparency like in your second screenshot :-(
Oh :/ I think that's because of your graphics card. RGBA works differently on each computer, dont know why. On lucid (10.04), transparency for me was almost negligible and in Maverick it's as in the screenshots. On my mom's net-book (with intel) its again negligible. If your windows become partially transparent, while menus dont, I dont think I'll be able to fix that :( RGBA still has many issues, and hopefully in the future it'll become more stable and customizable. Although there is one workaround. Go to Compiz Config settings manager (you have to install compizconfig-settings-manager if not installed already). Then go to "Opacity and brightness" (or something like that). Add a new entry with these options: (type=Menu | PopupMenu | DropdownMenu | Dialog | ModalDialog | Normal) which should look like this: http://i.imgur.com/tcyw8.png Then set the value to whatever u want, save it. Then enable Opacity, and your menus should become transparent. It wont be exactly the same like mine, but its quite nice :)
Oops, you'll find "Force version" and "Lock version" in "Package" and not "Edit". My bad, sry.