How to install the Fedora Core 4 version of the default Clearlooks theme on Fedora Core 5 and later:
Begin by going to http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/ and find a mirror. Navigate to the directory core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/ to download the two rpm packages we need: gnome-themes-x.xx.x-x.xxx.rpm and gtk2-engines-x.x.x-x.xxxx.rpm
mkdir workingfolder cd workingfolder rpm2cpio [PATH]/gnome-themes-2.10.1-2.i386.rpm | cpio -id rpm2cpio [PATH]/gtk2-engines-2.6.3-2.i386.rpm | cpio -id cp -a usr/share/themes/Clearlooks Clearlooks_FC4
Now we need to edit the files in the Clearlooks_FC4 directory to give this theme a new name so the Theme Manager doesn’t get confused. Edit the file Clearlooks_FC4/index.theme:
[Desktop Entry] Name=Clearlooks_FC4 Type=X-GNOME-Metatheme Comment=Attractive Usability Encoding=UTF-8 [X-GNOME-Metatheme] GtkTheme=Clearlooks_FC4 MetacityTheme=Clearlooks_FC4 IconTheme=Clearlooks
Edit the file Clearlooks_FC4/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml and change one line:
<name>Clearlooks_FC4</name>
Now let’s wrap this up:
mkdir -p ~/.themes mv Clearlooks_FC4 ~/.themes cd .. rm -r workingfolder gnome-theme-manager &
Or you could just download my copy of Clearlooks_FC4.tar.gz.
mkdir -p ~/.themes tar xzf Clearlooks_FC4.tar.gz -C ~/.themes/ gnome-theme-manager &