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VIEW HIGH RESOLUTION VERSION: http://ant-ony.deviantart.com/art/Antec ... -688179671

How to:
1. DOWNLOAD WALLPAPER: http://ant-ony.deviantart.com/art/MXLin ... -686658655

2. DOWNLOAD A START MENU LOGO: viewtopic.php?p=416827#p416827

3. DOWNLOAD APT UPDATER ICONS: viewtopic.php?p=416898#p416898 (put both in /usr/share/icons/ rename the originals if you want to keep them)

4. INSTALL THE MOKA ICONS FROM SYNAPTIC: 5. DOWNLOAD THE CUSTOM WHISKER MENU FILE: Choose the bluebird theme from appearance (unzip & put the .gtkrc-2.0 file in your home folder)

6. TASK BAR PANEL: download/file.php?id=10141 (set panel height to 48 Max )

I think that's pretty much it, if anything is missing or if something is not clear let me know and I will edit this post.
I will post more as I create them.
Happy Modding
Thanks

Very helpful, thanks. Fun stuff...

Made it a sticky.

Jerry3904 wrote:Very helpful, thanks. Fun stuff...

Made it a sticky.

Hey thanks Jerry, if there is enough interest I will do more

Nice and refreshing. Maybe it comes in future versions of MX?

Ogis wrote:Nice and refreshing. Maybe it comes in future versions of MX?

Maybe one day, its hard to please everybody.

Yeah, I have to admit that while I find the level of finish on your theme very high, there's just too much blue for me everywhere.

UPDATED SOME FILES, MENU & TASKBAR WAS TO DARK


VIEW HIGH RESOLUTION: http://ant-ony.deviantart.com/art/Antec ... -688219120

WALLPAPER: http://ant-ony.deviantart.com/art/MXLin ... -686660364
or http://ant-ony.deviantart.com/art/MXLin ... 1497557430

START BUTTON: viewtopic.php?p=417238#p417238

TASK BAR PANEL: viewtopic.php?p=417239#p417239

CUSTOM WHISKER MENU:

...UPDATED SOME FILES, MENU & TASKBAR WAS TO DARK

Nice.

asqwerth wrote:

...UPDATED SOME FILES, MENU & TASKBAR WAS TO DARK

Nice.

Thanks asqwerth for your feedback & support

My favorite of your wallpapers because of the way it suggests a landscape, adding a lot of visual interest.

Jerry3904 wrote:My favorite of your wallpapers because of the way it suggests a landscape, adding a lot of visual interest.

Thanks for the feedback Jerry

BTW: I found that dropping brightness by 20% in GIMP reduced the center top glare, made the whole thing less pink and brought out a bit more the lower *landscape." Thanks for the great work!

This is my favorite with a modified MX logo based on the sticker art.

Just playing with MX-17 ALPHA and noticed this: Has this always been there or has it just been added in MX-17alpha?

Reason I ask is because I noticed the antechdesigns themes and why I posted it in this thread
Thanks

antechdesigns wrote:Just playing with MX-17 ALPHA and noticed this:
MX Tweak Theme.png
Has this always been there or has it just been added in MX-17alpha?

Reason I ask is because I noticed the antechdesigns themes and why I posted it in this thread
Thanks

those 2 theme sets using some panel graphics from one of your posts, and I kind of jockied them around so it would work vertical or horizontal. They were not there in the original a1, but I added later in an update.

The theme set tool in MX tweak can do lots of different things, including apply a theme to the whisker panel. There is a sample config file in /usr/share/mx-tweak and you can put user made ones in ~/.local/share/mx-tweak and mx-tweak will pick them up after a restart of the app.

When changing themes, the undo function works as long as you undo before closing the app.

attaching your name was an indicator to the dev team of what the app could do.

dolphin_oracle wrote:

antechdesigns wrote:Just playing with MX-17 ALPHA and noticed this:
MX Tweak Theme.png
Has this always been there or has it just been added in MX-17alpha?

Reason I ask is because I noticed the antechdesigns themes and why I posted it in this thread
Thanks

those 2 theme sets using some panel graphics from one of your posts, and I kind of jockied them around so it would work vertical or horizontal. They were not there in the original a1, but I added later in an update.

The theme set tool in MX tweak can do lots of different things, including apply a theme to the whisker panel. There is a sample config file in /usr/share/mx-tweak and you can put user made ones in ~/.local/share/mx-tweak and mx-tweak will pick them up after a restart of the app.

When changing themes, the undo function works as long as you undo before closing the app.

attaching your name was an indicator to the dev team of what the app could do.

Thanks for the info Dolphin, I see the files in /usr/share/mx-tweak-data/ maybe that is what you meant? mx.tweak.template is the sample config, right ?

So basically if I make a theme and add the info to a .tweak file and put it in .local/share/mx-tweak I would be able to pick that theme from the MX-Tweak Theme panel?

That's cool if that's the case!?

I will have a play with it, see if I can come up with anything
Oh is it also possible to set a wallpaper within the .tweak file?

antechdesigns wrote:

dolphin_oracle wrote:

antechdesigns wrote:Just playing with MX-17 ALPHA and noticed this:
MX Tweak Theme.png
Has this always been there or has it just been added in MX-17alpha?

Reason I ask is because I noticed the antechdesigns themes and why I posted it in this thread
Thanks

those 2 theme sets using some panel graphics from one of your posts, and I kind of jockied them around so it would work vertical or horizontal. They were not there in the original a1, but I added later in an update.

The theme set tool in MX tweak can do lots of different things, including apply a theme to the whisker panel. There is a sample config file in /usr/share/mx-tweak and you can put user made ones in ~/.local/share/mx-tweak and mx-tweak will pick them up after a restart of the app.

When changing themes, the undo function works as long as you undo before closing the app.

attaching your name was an indicator to the dev team of what the app could do.

Thanks for the info Dolphin, I see the files in /usr/share/mx-tweak-data/ maybe that is what you meant? mx.tweak.template is the sample config, right ?

So basically if I make a theme and add the info to a .tweak file and put it in .local/share/mx-tweak I would be able to pick that theme from the MX-Tweak Theme panel?

That's cool if that's the case!?

I will have a play with it, see if I can come up with anything
Oh is it also possible to set a wallpaper within the .tweak file?

I almost added wallpaper settings, but backed off of it.

and yeah, mx-tweak-data. I forgot I split the packages out.

The .tweak files are commented to show what you can put in and where/how to put it. the formatting is particular for xfce because I use the xfconf-query system to set the values, except for whisker menu, which requires some finagling with .gtkrc-2.0.

and I think the ./local/share/mx-tweak-data is the right folder. Looks like that folder probably already exists and contains a template file already.

dolphin_oracle wrote:

antechdesigns wrote:

dolphin_oracle wrote:

those 2 theme sets using some panel graphics from one of your posts, and I kind of jockied them around so it would work vertical or horizontal. They were not there in the original a1, but I added later in an update.

The theme set tool in MX tweak can do lots of different things, including apply a theme to the whisker panel. There is a sample config file in /usr/share/mx-tweak and you can put user made ones in ~/.local/share/mx-tweak and mx-tweak will pick them up after a restart of the app.

When changing themes, the undo function works as long as you undo before closing the app.

attaching your name was an indicator to the dev team of what the app could do.

Thanks for the info Dolphin, I see the files in /usr/share/mx-tweak-data/ maybe that is what you meant? mx.tweak.template is the sample config, right ?

So basically if I make a theme and add the info to a .tweak file and put it in .local/share/mx-tweak I would be able to pick that theme from the MX-Tweak Theme panel?

That's cool if that's the case!?

I will have a play with it, see if I can come up with anything
Oh is it also possible to set a wallpaper within the .tweak file?

I almost added wallpaper settings, but backed off of it.

and yeah, mx-tweak-data. I forgot I split the packages out.

The .tweak files are commented to show what you can put in and where/how to put it. the formatting is particular for xfce because I use the xfconf-query system to set the values, except for whisker menu, which requires some finagling with .gtkrc-2.0.

and I think the ./local/share/mx-tweak-data is the right folder. Looks like that folder probably already exists and contains a template file already.

That's great Dolphin, good job and idea.
Yeah I remember doing something with .gtkrc-2.0 for a custom whisker menu and putting it in the home folder. In fact its at the beginning of this thread That'll save me some digging!!

antechdesigns wrote:

dolphin_oracle wrote:

antechdesigns wrote:
Thanks for the info Dolphin, I see the files in /usr/share/mx-tweak-data/ maybe that is what you meant? mx.tweak.template is the sample config, right ?

So basically if I make a theme and add the info to a .tweak file and put it in .local/share/mx-tweak I would be able to pick that theme from the MX-Tweak Theme panel?

That's cool if that's the case!?

I will have a play with it, see if I can come up with anything
Oh is it also possible to set a wallpaper within the .tweak file?

I almost added wallpaper settings, but backed off of it.

and yeah, mx-tweak-data. I forgot I split the packages out.

The .tweak files are commented to show what you can put in and where/how to put it. the formatting is particular for xfce because I use the xfconf-query system to set the values, except for whisker menu, which requires some finagling with .gtkrc-2.0.

and I think the ./local/share/mx-tweak-data is the right folder. Looks like that folder probably already exists and contains a template file already.

That's great Dolphin, good job and idea.
Yeah I remember doing something with .gtkrc-2.0 for a custom whisker menu and putting it in the home folder. In fact its at the beginning of this thread That'll save me some digging!!

Just to let you know, if an existing .gtkrc-2.0 file is found, mx-tweak will NOT overwrite it. It will add an "includes" statement to the .gtkrc-2.0 file that points to a second file with the code from the whisker area of the .tweak file. whatever is defined last is what whisker will use (so if you choose a theme that doesn't have any whisker code in it, whatever is previously existing in the .gtkrc-2.0 file, if anything, will come back into effect).

dolphin_oracle wrote:

antechdesigns wrote:

dolphin_oracle wrote:
I almost added wallpaper settings, but backed off of it.

and yeah, mx-tweak-data. I forgot I split the packages out.

The .tweak files are commented to show what you can put in and where/how to put it. the formatting is particular for xfce because I use the xfconf-query system to set the values, except for whisker menu, which requires some finagling with .gtkrc-2.0.

and I think the ./local/share/mx-tweak-data is the right folder. Looks like that folder probably already exists and contains a template file already.

That's great Dolphin, good job and idea.
Yeah I remember doing something with .gtkrc-2.0 for a custom whisker menu and putting it in the home folder. In fact its at the beginning of this thread That'll save me some digging!!

Just to let you know, if an existing .gtkrc-2.0 file is found, mx-tweak will NOT overwrite it. It will add an "includes" statement to the .gtkrc-2.0 file that points to a second file with the code from the whisker area of the .tweak file. whatever is defined last is what whisker will use (so if you choose a theme that doesn't have any whisker code in it, whatever is previously existing in the .gtkrc-2.0 file, if anything, will come back into effect).

Sorry I never got back to you on this, I had my test, 250GB Mechanical hard drive fail on me and I don't have much room left on my 120GB SSD to do another Partition or a virtual machine. So unless it starts raining hard drives, I'm Screwed for the time being. I still have most of the MX-linux master files for all the art projects I have done. So if you need anything changing or doing, give me a shout.

Very nice work ! i gotta try the 1rst one, with same kind of menu logo, but for vertical panel.

Well... i had a little time while my dinner cooker, so here we go.

OK.. since there are people who like it by the side and from the top, here we go : taskbar bg image for all.

BTW i had some fun with your set ^^

• 
• custom GTK2/3 (murrine base) : i just can't use Bluebird, to much light for my poor eyes
• xfwm4 : Thinble (no i don't like buttons on my windows )
• icons : good ol'colorized AwOken token

This is fun to see and think about using, thanks!

@ antech : i definitally enjoy your theme - weird 'coz i close-to-never use blue on my desktop ^^ Probably do i like this one because it reminds me silk, Murano's museum... and beetles xD

WIP on icons and GTK2/3 theme

k_sz that's very impressive, Id like a setup like that...

topcat wrote:k_sz that's very impressive, Id like a setup like that...

Thank you (first thank antech for the inspiration !)

I'll probably share both theme and icons on github (my first repo ever :$) as soon as i get rid of it. Then, the hard part : ask MXers and antiXeans to test it and fix the last bugz !

For now there are lots of little bugs (like plus or minus 1 pixel in a few places) and a few little eyecandies missing here and there. And i'm doubting about the uncolorized greys

Gimme one week or two ^^

Well... i couldn't sleep, and is there a better place or time than the night to work quietly ?

Immersed in the blue ^^ i think i'm gonna call this theme "MX Antech's Cobalt Beetle".

and no, in case you asked yourself, there is no grey. Not a single pixel. Everything has been blueished xD

• Icons : AnyColorYouLike (the set isn't as complete as Awoken or even DamaDamas but there are more possibilities and i like the flatitude of it :) sadly i couldn't manage to start the much more complete and funny AnyColorYouLikeSimple script - i've checked the dependancies, tried sudo, tried as root. Meh.)
• xfwm4 theme : RGapsBlend.

k_sz wrote:....
I'll probably share both theme and icons on github (my first repo ever :$) as soon as i get rid of it. Then, the hard part : ask MXers and antiXeans to test it and fix the last bugz !

For now there are lots of little bugs (like plus or minus 1 pixel in a few places) and a few little eyecandies missing here and there. And i'm doubting about the uncolorized greys

Gimme one week or two ^^

Ooooooh.

Re: the screenshot with Thinble theme - your style in theming XFCE reminds me of the people who theme WMs like openbox and i3. Nice.

Liking what I see of your icon set and Cobalt Beetle gtk theme. Will Cobalt Beetle work with gtk3 applications with client-side decorations?

As for Aw0ken icons, I've only ever usde Flatwoken as Aw0ken always seemed pretty minimalist, and now the icons appear to have been withdrawn from circulation. What script are you using to change the colour of Aw0ken?

[ADDED: ok I'm a little confused. Is Cobalt Beetle your gtk theme that is WIP, or is it the theme that looks as if it has a really slim window bar at the top with no buttons?]

Glad you like it !

Cobalt Beetle is the gtk theme and yes, i'm also working on the gtk 3/3.2 part (as one could see in the tiny white part of Geany, hiding behind the preferences window and Thunar). Never done this before, it may take a while...

About i3, icewm, etc : never tried it, but from what i've seen on /r/unixporn, i may enjoy this kind of toy xD I've installed already antiX on another drive : it may be the beginning of something...

About AwOken : here you go
> https://1fichier.com/?79nux4pplf This iconset is travelling in my hdds since years ;D

Thanks, k_sz.

Time to stop flooding antech's topic and to get my own > viewtopic.php?f=95&p=438179

After all this year it looks great!

Sorry could you please share how a noob would start ?
is there a app i need or create a new folder ?