Creating themes

The following guide will guide you in the process of creating a sample theme, the debianfun theme which is both simple and good looking:

## @(#) gnu/created gnu/by gnu/arne

#######################

#

# gnu/debian.. gnu/popular gnu/linux gnu/dist

#

needmod number-extra 

needmod themecompat

needmod color

PS1="$u`color fgred`@`color`$h "$w"`color fgred`$b `color`"

TITLE="terminal::$TEXTNUMBER"

XFONT=lime.pcf.gz

SIZE_X=110

SIZE_Y=25

## Debian swirl which is shown one second upon startup

IMAGELOGO=debian.xpm

## Debian swirl, dull version in the background.

IMAGEFILE=debian2.xpm

## Color definitions

ANSICOLOR_BRIGHTRED=cc1111

ANSICOLOR_BRIGHTBLUE=553333

ANSICOLOR_BRIGHTGREEN=442222

ANSICOLOR_BRIGHTCYAN=662222

ANSICOLOR_BRIGHTYELLOW=883333

ANSICOLOR_BRIGHTMAGENTA=554444

ANSICOLOR_BRIGHTBLACK=330000

ANSICOLOR_BRIGHTWHITE=665555

ANSICOLOR_YELLOW=883333

ANSICOLOR_RED=880000

ANSICOLOR_GREEN=885555

ANSICOLOR_BLUE=553333

ANSICOLOR_GREEN=442222

ANSICOLOR_CYAN=662222

ANSICOLOR_YELLOW=883333

ANSICOLOR_MAGENTA=554444

ANSICOLOR_BLACK=330000

ANSICOLOR_WHITE=665555

CURSORCOLOR=$ANSICOLOR_RED

FGPOINTERCOLOR=$ANSICOLOR_RED

BGCOLOR=dedede

FGCOLOR=000000

## transparency off

BGBRIGHTNESSRED=256

BGBRIGHTNESSGREEN=256

BGBRIGHTNESSBLUE=256

BGTRANSPARENCY=0

## Information about the author

THEME_AUTHOR=''Arne <arne AT users.sourceforge.net>

THEME_URL=http://www.debian.org/

THEME_COMMENT=''Noticing a slight bias toward a certain Linux distribution? must be a coincidence...''



Subsections

Thomas Eriksson 2004-06-23