change desktop theme via tar.xz <SOLVED>

[geezuslvr]

I down loaded a desktop theme that is a tar.xz...
how do I install this theme?

Thank you everyone who knows

[djohnston]

Well, geez, you gave us so much to go on. Like the name of the theme and where you downloaded it from. And, oh yeah, what desktop you're using.

[geezuslvr]

Thank you so very much for your very kind response...

I am using the "standard" PCLinuxOS KDE Edition...

If I place my mouse arrow on the little round thing on the task bar with "PC" wriiten in it, then drag my mouse arrow all the way up to the very top of the "Application Bar?"  to "More Applications" then move that mouse arrow to the right, but not too far, then scroll down to "Configuration" then move my white mouse arrow down to "Configure your Desktop" then to "Workspace Appearance" then "Desktop Themes",

There! Right there you'll see a number of themes to choose from, some of which lead to "links" that end with .tar.xz.

So...

Back to my innocent question...

How does one install a theme that ends with .tar.xz?

[TerryN]

If I place my mouse arrow on the little round thing on the task bar with "PC" wriiten in it, then drag my mouse arrow all the way up to the very top of the "Application Bar?"  to "More Applications" then move that mouse arrow to the right, but not too far, then scroll down to "Configuration" then move my white mouse arrow down to "Configure your Desktop" then to "Workspace Appearance" then "Desktop Themes",

...and then "Get New Themes".
In the box which lists the themes, to the right of each theme, there is a button marked "Install".

[djohnston]

The way TerryN shows it is the accepted method for installing desktop themes. I'm not as familiar with KDE4 as I was with KDE3. I've tried to replicate what you're seeing by downloading a plasma theme and moving it to the system directory where KDE4 plasma themes go. But, when I bring up the Desktop Themes installer, I don't see the plasma-theme.tar.xz file listed.

Innocent question? Yes. Missing pertinent information? Yes. Still missing some details.

1) What is the name of the .tar.xz archive you downloaded?
2) Where did you download it from?
3) What directory is it in?
4) Is it a plasma theme?

[geezuslvr]

The first theme on the list above is "Helium One"... After you press "install" you'll be  redirected to a website in which you download a .tar.xz

That theme has 5 "Stars" showing its popularity...That was the one I downloaded, However; there are others on that page, or pages, that after pressing "install" I get redirected to websites by which I can download a .tar.xz of its theme.

After downloading, I extracted the file hoping there might be a README file explaining what to do with it but there wasn't.

Thanks for your help

[JohnW_57]

A another way  to install a kde4 plasma desktop theme is:
Download the theme from  www.kde-look.org.
Go where  the file is downloaded and extract the file (mostly it's a folder as result)
Copy (or move) the folder to ~/.kde4/share/apps/desktoptheme/ (the folder is hidden).

Then go to config your desktop (KDE4 control center) and search for appearance workspace icon and enter.
Then go to desktop theme and enter

Search for the new installed theme, click on it, apply and see the theme is changed.

JohnW

[geezuslvr]

Thank You John...

It didn't show up after moving to my home directory, but it did after moving to /usr/share/apps/desktopthemes.

what a bugar

thanks again

[JohnW_57]

The only difference is all your users can use the desktop theme and ~/.kde4/apps/desktoptheme/ only local.

JohnW

[Ron Ritzman]

If I place my mouse arrow on the little round thing on the task bar with "PC" wriiten in it, then drag my mouse arrow all the way up to the very top of the "Application Bar?"  to "More Applications" then move that mouse arrow to the right, but not too far, then scroll down to "Configuration" then move my white mouse arrow down to "Configure your Desktop" then to "Workspace Appearance" then "Desktop Themes",

...and then "Get New Themes".
In the box which lists the themes, to the right of each theme, there is a button marked "Install".

And when you press the install button you get this...



Clicking "ok" sends you "somewhere else" where you then are given the link to download the tar.gz file in question.

[johnmart]

Many desktop themes will install directly from the KDE installation box, but some send you to the author's page. Usually there you are offered different variations of the theme you selected, and IIRC there are instructions there how to install--like JohnW_57 advises.
I'm lazy & just reject the ones that won't install directly. 

[Ron Ritzman]

Many desktop themes will install directly from the KDE installation box, but some send you to the author's page. Usually there you are offered different variations of the theme you selected, and IIRC there are instructions there how to install--like JohnW_57 advises.
I'm lazy & just reject the ones that won't install directly. 

I few months ago, clicking "ok" sent me to a site that required registration to get the (theme/wallpaper I can't off hand remember what it was). Seems like this setup could easily be used to spam. Just offer what looks like a really cool theme but then send you to a "pay per click" porn site.