Cobra

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Description:

A dark, nearly black GTK2 theme. Contains borderless themes for Beryl (Emerald) and Metacity.

To resize windows using borderless themes (in Gnome at least), press Alt + Middle mouse button and drag the window. If there is any interest I could add Metacity and Emerald themes with borders later. If anyone needs more color variations, just ask.
Installation:Download the package, extract it, open the folder and read the instructions file.
Info:The Emerald themes has two versions, one with OSX-like buttons and another which resembles Vista buttons. The same applies to Metacity themes.

Firefox, Gaim and Open Office have some issues with dark themes. Fixes are provided in the instructions file.

Ubuntu users: Install the package 'gtk2-engines-pixbuf' to use the theme:
sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-pixbuf.
Last changelog:

13 years ago

0.0.4
- Added an orange GTK2 theme.

0.0.3
- Removed the GTK2 theme script and replaced with tarballs instead.

0.0.2
- Made buttons a bit easier to see.
- Window decoration buttons makes more sense.
- Added a script called color-chooser.sh which obviously adds more color variations. You need to have ImageMagick installed to use it. See the instructions.

0.0.1
- First release.

Known issues:- Problems with black text on dark background (or white on white) in some programs.
- Using larger Gnome (or Xfce) panels than 48 pixels does not look good.
- Insensitive text in menus are a bit hard to read. Same with blue link color.
- Checkboxes in Firefox may have wrong colors (but works).
- Search bar in Rhythmbox is hard to read.

Thanks to nanoflower and Neutronium for providing the basis for this theme.

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Winner

6 years ago

pleaaaaze MaKE thiS CompAtibLe wiD GtK 3.XX

iV BeeN uSing this fOr oVer a yEaR on oLd deBiaN :/ noW Its noT CompAtibLE FiX iT aWsoME theME thankS

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PandaPied

8 years ago

I can't make the theme show in Appearance > themes after i dragged the Cobra-Blue.tar.gz into the box. It says theme installed successful and the files are also in my .themes folder but still ??
Im on mandriva 2011 btw

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sysghost

9 years ago

I'd love to see GTK3 versions of these.

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JBAlaska

10 years ago

Very nice! Now my favorite dark theme.

The Firefox fix was also helpful.

Thank You!

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Karmicbastler

10 years ago

hi Dear,

I love this Theme. Bit as I haved moved over to Emerald-Theme, I would love an Emerald-Theme from this.

So could you also make an Emerald-Theme out of this nice Theme please??

Greetings
Karmicbastler

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KyleGp

11 years ago

How did you add the fast user switch to the gnome menu?

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KyleGp

11 years ago

Nevermind! Just removed the fast switcher and it moved itself to the main menu :P

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zero1one0

11 years ago

when i use openoffice
the normal icons for standard features such as
Open, save,
Document as email,
export directly as pdf are all just text instead of icons
and even when i go into the appearance settings and change the interface settings to "Icons Only"
it still only displays text in openoffice

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quangtruong1985

12 years ago

Greate job man. Keep going...
Greate

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jimihendrx

12 years ago

theme wont work for me =( its rly cool too

if u know what background this guy is using please tell me

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retropixel

12 years ago

Attention! Attention! Xfce users.. There is an xfwm theme, so you can enjoy this great theme with the Xfce Desktop!

http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Cobra+OSX+%28xfwm%29?content=75195

:)

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f4b10

13 years ago

Hi... I have some problems whith amsn... the fonts in amsn's menu are white and the background color too... someone knows how to fix or change the menu's color background??

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thevoiceless

13 years ago

Do you know of any way to make the VLC buttons visible while using this theme? They're black buttons, unfortunately

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donoterase

12 years ago

I found a slight workaround for this by installing VLC with theme support, selected a light theme and voila. Problem solved.

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scolt

13 years ago

gnome-theme-manager says the file format is invalid. anybody got any ideas how to fix this?

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zman14321

13 years ago

Having exact same problem, love the theme, but can't get it installed. Anybody know the fix?

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thevoiceless

13 years ago

They archive contains the files for all the different colors of the theme, you have to go in and extract them each individually

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saik0

13 years ago

excellent theme... really excellent...

but i can't simple use it for openoffice is unusable for instance ...


does ANYONE know how to try to solve this problem :/

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saik0

13 years ago

actually i found the thing about changing the background ...

but the image style in OO simply doesn't do anything

whatever i select it's always on the same

then i switch to some classic theme and i can change the style...

bah so annoying!

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auntaunt

13 years ago

This theme is so cool! Thanx mate!

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sploenni

13 years ago

i really like your theme. good work! but there is one point with this theme, in gaim/pidgin chat window there is black text on black background...
to fix this create a gtkrc-2.0 in .purple dir in your home and put the following in it:
Quote:style "Custom"
{
base[NORMAL] = "#292B29"
}
class "GtkWidget" style "Custom"
it should be no problem to adjust the bg-colour to your needs...

sploenni

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janaltom

13 years ago

Its Very NICE, Thankyou for your work ...

Please, write or post link to backgroud to you use in prewiev. thank you

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nordlicht

13 years ago

..this is awesome. Thanks, man! ;)

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nechi

13 years ago

Absolutely perfect. It's a really great job you've done! The blue version is my default theme now. Thanks.

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nameless

13 years ago

Could you make Black-orange theme. Personally I like black-orange combination , so if it's not too much work...
Cobra-Orange..

I don't like this brown theme...

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13 years ago

0.0.4
- Added an orange GTK2 theme.

0.0.3
- Removed the GTK2 theme script and replaced with tarballs instead.

0.0.2
- Made buttons a bit easier to see.
- Window decoration buttons makes more sense.
- Added a script called color-chooser.sh which obviously adds more color variations. You need to have ImageMagick installed to use it. See the instructions.

0.0.1
- First release.

Known issues:- Problems with black text on dark background (or white on white) in some programs.
- Using larger Gnome (or Xfce) panels than 48 pixels does not look good.
- Insensitive text in menus are a bit hard to read. Same with blue link color.
- Checkboxes in Firefox may have wrong colors (but works).
- Search bar in Rhythmbox is hard to read.

Thanks to nanoflower and Neutronium for providing the basis for this theme.

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