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Can't use emerald theme manager

Asked by ma9g0t

Hello! I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 x64. I've downloaded compiz, compiz-fusion-icon and emerald in synaptic. But I have problems with Emerald Theme Manager (Emerald Themer 0.7.2) - there are no themes at all, button "refresh" doesn't work, when I try to import a theme nothing happens. I read this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompositeManager/CompizFusion article, pointed outed this moment:

sudo apt-get install subversion
svn ls https://svn.generation.no/emerald-themes

Subversion installed properly, but the second: "svn: Could not open the requested SVN filesystem".
Is something wrong with Emerald on my system?
P.S. Also... I tried downloading themes from gnome-look.org but didn't succeed in installing. The file I download has .gz extension. When I unpack it, there's a file with .tar extension. Having looked inside it, I understood it is a theme-package. But it isn't seen in Emerald import option. Tried to rename it into .emerald extension - emerald sees the file, but can't import it (after pressing open button nothing happens). Is it ok?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Emerald is no longer maintained by anyone.

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ma9g0t (erokhin-andrew) said : 		#2

actionparsnip, do you mean emerald is obsolete for my distrib?

By the way, when I enter "emerald --replace" I got "segmentation fault" error.

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OzzyFrank (ubuntu-ozzyfrank) said : 		#3

Emerald is a dead project, which is why it is no longer supported by Ubuntu. Jasper will be its replacement. But you can get Emerald working again in Ubuntu 11.04:

http://ubuntugenius.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/ubuntu-11-04-fix-enable-emerald-themes-for-compiz-fusion-window-borders-title-bars/

It also covers how to rectify a couple of errors, like how to restore the ability to move windows once Emerald is working.

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