KDE/KDEmod Theme "Coal"

I would like to invite Arch KDE/KDEmod users to see (and if you like, use it ) a theme I've made:
Download theme from deviantArt (LINK FIXED)
The "Coal" theme, in fact, are various tweaks to give a nice, dark look to your KDE.
It includes:
- Colour theme
- Domino style configuration
- Crystal KWin configurations and overlay images
- Kicker overlay images
There's a small installer that will help copying the files to the right places and show instructions on how configure it all.
(If you can come up with a better installer - using kcfm - it would be greatly appreciated)
As a bonus, the Superkaramba widget for displaying album art on the desktop is included too.
I've been doing themes for some time (if you download themes from gnome-look.org you probably came across something I made), but this one is my first theme for KDE (while I was testing it, I couldn't stand the default theme *yuck*).
Hope you like it, it's my way for contributing back to Linux, Archlinux, KDE and KDEmod communities.
Have fun!
Last edited by freakcode (2008-05-15 16:25:25)

I'll Pay You For This!
edit: spoke too soon. thought twas a new style don't fret, i still use the kicker overlay and the colouers (even though in apps the grey is so light in the input fields that it hurts the eye)! work on the colours a lil more, would be great to find the sweet spot while remaining dark.
Last edited by schivmeister (2008-03-14 14:58:56)

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# Maintainer: Piotr Gorski <[email protected]>
pkgname=kgtk
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pkgrel=3.1
pkgdesc="LD_PRELOAD hack with helper scripts to make gtk and qt-only programs use KDE file dialogs."
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md5sums=('e5abf37b9f15b301d213ffb881144ddb')
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-rw-r--r-- root/root 747 2014-12-30 22:48 .INSTALL
-rw-r--r-- root/root 1465 2014-12-30 22:48 .MTREE
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-12-30 22:48 usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-12-30 22:48 usr/bin/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-12-30 22:48 usr/lib/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-12-30 22:48 usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-12-30 22:48 usr/share/locale/
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Last edited by hockeyfighter09 (2009-07-06 05:48:53)

FrozenFox wrote:
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Sorry, I didn't make myself clear.
I didn't go through the details of how packages are splitted in KDEmod, I just used the following thread:
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kdemod/kdemod-kdetoys-ktux 3.5.9-1 (kdemod-kdetoys)
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worldwatch_install)
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Last edited by funkyou (2008-03-06 14:07:18)

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my system
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/var/log/Xorg.0.log
/var/log/errors.log
/var/log/messages.log
I did post similar information at Chakra site but problem may not be related to kdemod 4.2.4 but kde 4, so that is why I decided to post about this issue here.
Thanks
Last edited by broch (2009-07-06 12:44:48)

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kwin(2891): Failed to initialize compositing, compositing disabled
kwin(2891): Consult http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KWin/4 … Setting_up
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I tried many options in the xorg.conf, also the nvidia-173.14.18-3 driver, but no effects yet.
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[Solved] Problems in KDE after upgrade

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Agent pid 16772
startkde: Starting up...
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
kbuildsycoca4 running...
kbuildsycoca4(16796) KBuildSycoca::checkTimestamps: checking file timestamps
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No outputs have backlight property
QDBusConnection: name 'org.kde.kglobalaccel' had owner '' but we thought it was ':1.5'
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kded(16795) PowerDevilUPowerBackend::brightness: org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper.brightness failed
Object::connect: No such signal QDBusAbstractInterface::Changed()
New PolkitAgentListener 0x194f900
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Major opcode: 53 (X_CreatePixmap)
Resource id: 0x0
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
Major opcode: 14 (X_GetGeometry)
Resource id: 0x1e00154
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 3 (X_GetWindowAttributes)
Resource id: 0x16a05f0
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X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
Extension: 149 (RENDER)
Minor opcode: 4 (RenderCreatePicture)
Resource id: 0x1e00154
X Error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 2
Major opcode: 53 (X_CreatePixmap)
Resource id: 0x0
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
Major opcode: 14 (X_GetGeometry)
Resource id: 0x1e00156
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 3 (X_GetWindowAttributes)
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X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
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Minor opcode: 4 (RenderCreatePicture)
Resource id: 0x1e00156
X Error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 2
Major opcode: 53 (X_CreatePixmap)
Resource id: 0x0
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I'm running a home-built machine with an AMD processor and an nVidia video card (nouveau driver).
I tried changing my settings in ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc to disable composting, and I've tried doing a full install as that helped several people. Neither helped. I'm hoping that someone will understand the above errors and can guide me to fixing it.
Thanks!
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Last edited by AdamL.Hanks (2011-10-09 18:19:50)

I have now tried a clean user, and it works. I don't know what's causing the difference. I noticed that the new user (tester) had a `.xinitrc' file in the home directory and my original user (hanksa) did not. I copied that file over, but I still had the same problem. I'm thinking it's with KDE -- one of my settings, not the programing -- because I can still launch applications from yakuake (I have this autostarting for both users with the same launch scripts). It seems that it is just the desktop wallpaper and the kickoff panel that aren't loading.
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So I'm setting up KDE and I want to use the QtCurve theme for all applications where possible. I have set (via kde-gtk-config) the GTK2 theme to QtCurve and it half works. GTK2 applications are using the QtCurve theme when they are launched via a command, but they are using what appears to be an ugly version of the Oxygen theme when launched from a .desktop file. I previously installed gtk-qt-engine from the AUR, but have since removed it along with it's files, and as I was using the Oxygen theme at the time, this appears to be what has caused the issue. Does anyone know what is causing this and how to fix it?
EDIT: Solved by removing ~/.themes folder (obviously only remove the KDE-QT theme if there are other themes in the folder).
Last edited by RibShark (2013-09-23 17:26:41)

Thanks, but lxappearance made things rather worse.
A friend of mine had told me to put "gtk-toolbar-style=GTK_TOOLBAR_ICONS" into settings.ini and my problem is solved now.

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