Gwibber themes

// May 1st, 2009 // p.u.c & p.u-uk.org

I’m using gwibber for keeping up with identi.ca and twitter. I mainly use an eeepc while at home, so to get a couple more dents on screen I’ve recently been using the defaultsmall theme. This theme isn’t quite as nice to my eyes as the default theme though, it makes the background darker for one thing. I’ve patched the defaultsmall theme to use the background colours from the default theme.

Gwibber Real Default small

Kudos to the gwibber team for making this so easy to do, it’s just a case of editing some css. I think I’ve spent more time blogging about it than doing it. There’s a list of gwibber themes if you’re looking for a change or inspiration. I encourage anyone more creative than myself to create their own gwibber themes.

To use my “realdefaultsmall” theme

  1. mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gwibber/ui/themes/
  2. cd ~/.local/share/gwibber/ui/themes/
  3. wget http://www.deansas.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/realdefaultsmall.tar.gz
  4. tar xzf realdefaultsmall.tar.gz
  5. Start gwibber, open the preferences and choose realdefaultsmall from the theme list

7 Responses to “Gwibber themes”

  1. Ben says:
    02/05/2009 at 05:02

    Actually, you can’t do it like that if you already have the themes directory. Best just download it, and then move it to the themes directory – and make it at that stage if you don’t already have it.

    wget http://www.deansas.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/realdefaultsmalltar.gz

    cd ~/.local/share/gwibber/ui/themes/

    if ‘no such file or directory’ then mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gwibber/ui/themes/

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    • Dean says:
      14/05/2009 at 12:02

      @Ben why won’t that work if you already have the directory? mkdir won’t create the directory if it already exists..

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  2. effie-jayx says:
    03/05/2009 at 14:16

    awesome theme, thanks for the tip.

    The name of the file is wrong though, realdefaultsmalltar.gz

    in your last step you say the file is a .tar.gz

    tar xzf realdefaultsmall.tar.gz

    thanks again

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  3. Dean says:
    03/05/2009 at 20:55

    Thanks for the corrections. That’ll teach me to double-check any instructions!

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  4. Evans says:
    14/05/2009 at 09:57

    Thanks for this tip, I will link to it for those looking to use other themes in replacement of the defualt one.

    Your instruction is easy to follow. Great stuff :)

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  5. Temas de Gwibber says:
    27/06/2009 at 07:35

    [...] Vamos a ver un ejemplo con el tema realdefaultsmall: [...]

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  6. Abhishek Mishra says:
    16/08/2009 at 16:26

    I just love the way it has been made easy for anyone to make a gwibber theme. Thanks to CSS and webkit, I too made a new one – Gwibbiquity – http://ideamonk.blogspot.com/2009/08/gwibbiquity-theme-for-gwibber.html

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