How can we install theme?

It's probably have to open the file manager as a root user to add/remove files/folders. Open your terminal and type:

gksudo thunar

That will open a new file manager window as root which will allow you to modify the themes folder, hopefully....

There are two known ways for installing themes.

1. User /usr/share/themes folder for global theme installation, i.e. theme will be available to all users. But to do this you need to be root. Type gksu Thunar or any preferred file manager as root and copy theme folder to /usr/share/themes.

2. To install the theme as user, i.e. only available to you, you do not need any special permissions. Just create a folder .themes in you home directory ( You need to enable "show hidden files" to see the directory afterwords ). Then copy the theme folder to /home/<user>/.themes and the theme will be installed only for your user.

gksudo thunar /usr/share/themes

Will take you straight to the folder. The folder is owned by root, so your user will not have access. You use gksudo to run the graphical application (not sudo) and you will get write access.

Which one is better way for me to do install theme in? Indeed I know what is root, what is difference GUI or root with authorize install? That is what I try understand here.

I just experiment, found hidden folder in my home folder called .theme and I put theme in there and nothing happen. now everything not make any sense. I am total confused with how this work. I check on Appearance and it is not on list. what going on, it is not easier than my thought. how can keep this simple?

Ok. You MUST open terminal, copy and paste this:

gksudo thunar ~/.themes

That will open the .themes folder and you must then paste the entire extracted theme folder into the .themes directory. I do not believe it is necessary to put it in /usr/share/themes

Then go to settings manager and change the theme. If it doesn't work try rebooting. The above are the only steps required to add a theme. Just make sure you extracted the tarball and put only the extracted folder into the .themes folder.

You don't need gksudo if the directory is in the user's home. Users have full access already

yes it is full access in " .theme" folder and yes I put theme folder called Mint-X-Mac in there. Also I follow the instruction:

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Ok. You MUST open terminal, copy and paste this:

gksudo thunar ~/.themes

That will open the .themes folder and you must then paste the entire extracted theme folder into the .themes directory. I do not believe it is necessary to put it in /usr/share/themes

Then go to settings manager and change the theme. If it doesn't work try rebooting. The above are the only steps required to add a theme. Just make sure you extracted the tarball and put only the extracted folder into the .themes folder.

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The result is still not working. I have mint-x-Mac folder (theme) and I check inside and it have xfce and it's should work. But nothing working here

Let's make clear here, I install ubuntu 12.10 then add Xubuntu due of my GMA 500 (poor graphic chipset) so far Xubuntu work great on my netbook. Now I am still struggle to add theme in. Any suggest?

 I don't know what to say. That is the method of installing themes in Xubuntu. Just simply place the theme into the /.themes folder. It's straightforward. If it doesn't work it must be some sort of bug.

I am so idiot, there are tricky on those theme folder, I wasn't pay attention on one small detail is make sure add "s" to the ".themes" which since I use ".theme" without "s" will not working. Now it is solution.

Make folder exactly name .themes (make sure "s" end of .theme)

Thank you.

Glad it's working now.