[mythtv-users] Themes - come out wherever you are

[Paul Harrison]

On 15/10/17 00:56, Barry Martin wrote:

>
> Hi Folks!
>
> In a nutshell I've lost most of my Themes -- the ones like Steppes, 
> Retro-wide, Childish, etc., which provide a backdrop and the 
> appearance of the TV show selection menu and other menus. (Found out 
> in my Googling there are many type of 'themes'.)  This has happened on 
> most if not all of the Frontends here, so possibly a bug or I'm just 
> consistently doing something wrong.  Found the files are supposed to 
> be in/usr/share/mythtv/themes    or (home directory) /.mythtv/themes 
> .  If the theme is listed in Setup> Theme Chooser it's in one of those 
> directories.  If it used to be and 'disappeared' I've not been able to 
> find it anywhere: not Trash, not some random directory.
>
> Latest issue was I created a new Frontend.  Originally had these 
> Themes listed:
>
>  1. A Forest 2.2
>  2. Arclight 28.1
>  3. Blue Abstract 1.12
>  4. Childish 25.1
>  5. LCARS 1.0
>  6. Monochrome 1.91
>  7. MythAeonNox 28.5
>  8. Mythbuntu 28.21
>  9. Mythbuntu-classic 26.22
> 10. MythCenter 1.3
> 11. MythCenter-wide 1.7
> 12. MythCenterXMAS-wide 1.5
> 13. MythMediaStream Redux 28.1
> 14. Readability 0.5
> 15. Retro-wide 1.1
> 16. Steppes 28.6
> 17. Steppes-narrow 28.4
> 18. Terra 1.4
> 19. TintedGlass 4.56
> 20. TransBlue 1.0
> 21. Willi 2.28
>
> Select Steppes 28.6 ==> downloads, goes to Terra. Reselect Theme 
> Chooser, now only:
>
>  1. MythCenter 1.3
>  2. MythCenter-wide 1.7
>  3. Steppes 28.6
>  4. Terra 1.4
>
> Exited, rebooted, LIS tried to find with the 'find' command... Haven't 
> been able to find a live repository (?) where can download a Themes 
> Package (correct terminology?).   Have found where I can download some 
> of the Themes but not all.
>
> BTW, running 0.28.  LIS this missing Themes problem is on all of my 
> Frontends of various brands, home-made, 32- and 64 bit.....
>
> So the questions are what do I do to restore the Themes and what do I 
> do to keep from loosing them again?
>
> TIA!
>
> Barry
>

What version of MythTV are you using? I seem to remember some problems 
were fixed in this area recently but you will have to update to a fairly 
recent version to get them.

There are two sets of themes the default ones MythCenter, 
MythCenter-wide and Tera which should be in /usr/share/mythtv/themes 
typically.

And then there are the user installed ones which will be placed in the 
theme directory in MythTV's config directory which is normally 
$HOME/.mythtv. You can see exactly what it is in the frontend log you 
will see a line that starts with "Using configuration directory =" 
followed by the directory it's using.

Paul H.