<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 August 2011 16:20, Kenneth Emerson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kenneth.emerson@gmail.com">kenneth.emerson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I'm new to theme programing, but trying to learn. I currently use the blue-abstract-wide theme and wanted to make some small changes to one of the menus (baby steps in the learning process). Trying to follow the instructions on the (several) theme wikis, I created a directory in the mythtv user's home directory:<br>
<br>/home/mythtv/.mythtv/themes/blue-abstract-wide/<br><br>Then I copied the xml file I wanted to modify to that directory. I believe the wiki said that the frontend will search this directory first and then the /usr/[local]/share/mythtv/theme directory for everything else.<br>
<br>Well, that seemed to get mythtv and myself very confused. The first thing I noticed was that I now had two versions of blue-abstract-wide to choose from in the Theme Chooser setup menu. Not realizing what was happening, I selected one and ended up with the complete theme loaded into the home/mythtv/ directory instead of the /usr/local/share directory.<br>
<br>I cleaned that up and got things back to where they had been and when I reloaded the frontend, I ended up with the Tera theme and could not get the blue-abstract-wide theme back. It wasn't until I deleted the blue-abstract-wide directory from /home/mythtv/.mythtv/themes directory that things went back to normal. I assume that happened because, lacking a working theme, the frontend defaults to the Tera theme?<br>
<br>Since then, I have been making changes directly to the blue-abstract-wide theme residing in the /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes directory although that is not optimum as my changes will get wiped out each time I update.<br>
<br>Obviously I have something screwed up either in my configuration or in my interpretation of the instructions for testing.<br><br>Any suggestions?<br></blockquote><div><br>Copy the theme to ~/.mythth/themes/blue-abstract-modified<br>
</div><div>Change the theme name...<br>
<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythUI_Theme_Development#themeinfo.xml">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythUI_Theme_Development#themeinfo.xml</a><br>
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You can then use this to reload the theme while mythfrontend is running<br>
<p><code>kill -USR1 $(pidof mythfrontend)</code></p><p><code>Thanks what I did anyway</code></p><p><code>1 note if the XML in invalid the frontend will load the default theme as a fall back.. <br></code></p><p><code>~/.mythtv/themecache some times seems to need to be cleared out as well (which im guessing is what was happening to you)<br>
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</p> Jason Taylor<br clear="all"></div></div><br>-- <br>"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. " - Calven<br><br>