Hello Experienced Linux users,
Long-time Windows user, exploring Linux here, now running Ubuntu-based LXLE 18.04.3 32-bit on a Sony Viao Intel Core i5 testbed.
LXLE runs nicely OOTB (Out Of The Box), but now trying to follow the download and Command Line instructions found on this page:
How To Make Linux Look Like Windows XP
Author Derrik Diener, was kind enough to make his tutorial PLAYSKOOL simple by providing Command Line Instructions (CLI) for each step. (Or so I thought. The attached video is singularly opaque).
Unfortunately, after seeming to successfully download the theming app (including themes and icons), entering the CLI, terminal is refusing the instructions -- in a form of Cybernetic 'Simon Says' -- and responding with a repeated: No such file or directory.
My Understanding of the Relevant Directories
1) the initial directory for the theming app [Longhorn-Collaboration] would be downloaded by default to
/home/PC_Name/Downloads/Longhorn-Collaboration
2) The intermediate destination for the files would be:
/usr/share/themes
3) Diener's CLI cheat includes one of the following:
sudo mv ~/Longhorn-Collaboration/Windows\ \Longhorn\ \Slate /usr/share/themes/
4) the following are found in the various sub-directories:
/Downloads/Longhorn-Collaboration/Windows Longhorn Aero
/Downloads/Longhorn-Collaboration/Windows Longhorn Jade
/Downloads/Longhorn-Collaboration/Windows Longhorn Slate
5) Longhorn-Collaboration can be found in "/usr/share/Longhorn-Collaboration"
But clicking on it redirects you to:
/home/PC_Name/Longhorn-Collaboration/Windows Longhorn Aero
"Jade" and "Slate" are found separately in the same manner.
6) Following the CLI cheat codes, viz..
sudo mv ~/home/<username>/downloads/Longhorn-Collaboration/Windows Longhorn Plex /usr/share/themes
yields:
mv: cannot stat '/home/<username>/downloads/Longhorn-Collaboration/Windows': No such file or directory
7) Eventually, I understand that I have to move the theme-and-icon sets to the respective sub-directories:
/home/PC_Name/.icons
/home/PC_Name/.themes
DISCUSSION
My understanding of computer commands is that they can be real idiot-savants like Rainman -- they can perform excellently, but you have to be absolutely precise in giving them a command.
Could it be that my default "/Downloads" sub-directory is spelled with an upper case, therefore confusing Linux, telling it where to look for the file or app in question? Or is it some other issue with the instructions? Once again, the instructions are located at:
...and I am using the instructions given for Debian, since LXLE is Debian-based.*
[self-correction: No. It's Ubuntu-based.]
In short, how to I get these theme-and-icon files safely into their /.themes and /.icons destinations?
Thanks in advance.
*
Long-time Windows user, exploring Linux here, now running Ubuntu-based LXLE 18.04.3 32-bit on a Sony Viao Intel Core i5 testbed.
LXLE runs nicely OOTB (Out Of The Box), but now trying to follow the download and Command Line instructions found on this page:
How To Make Linux Look Like Windows XP
Author Derrik Diener, was kind enough to make his tutorial PLAYSKOOL simple by providing Command Line Instructions (CLI) for each step. (Or so I thought. The attached video is singularly opaque).
Unfortunately, after seeming to successfully download the theming app (including themes and icons), entering the CLI, terminal is refusing the instructions -- in a form of Cybernetic 'Simon Says' -- and responding with a repeated: No such file or directory.
My Understanding of the Relevant Directories
1) the initial directory for the theming app [Longhorn-Collaboration] would be downloaded by default to
/home/PC_Name/Downloads/Longhorn-Collaboration
2) The intermediate destination for the files would be:
/usr/share/themes
3) Diener's CLI cheat includes one of the following:
sudo mv ~/Longhorn-Collaboration/Windows\ \Longhorn\ \Slate /usr/share/themes/
4) the following are found in the various sub-directories:
/Downloads/Longhorn-Collaboration/Windows Longhorn Aero
/Downloads/Longhorn-Collaboration/Windows Longhorn Jade
/Downloads/Longhorn-Collaboration/Windows Longhorn Slate
5) Longhorn-Collaboration can be found in "/usr/share/Longhorn-Collaboration"
But clicking on it redirects you to:
/home/PC_Name/Longhorn-Collaboration/Windows Longhorn Aero
"Jade" and "Slate" are found separately in the same manner.
6) Following the CLI cheat codes, viz..
sudo mv ~/home/<username>/downloads/Longhorn-Collaboration/Windows Longhorn Plex /usr/share/themes
yields:
mv: cannot stat '/home/<username>/downloads/Longhorn-Collaboration/Windows': No such file or directory
7) Eventually, I understand that I have to move the theme-and-icon sets to the respective sub-directories:
/home/PC_Name/.icons
/home/PC_Name/.themes
DISCUSSION
My understanding of computer commands is that they can be real idiot-savants like Rainman -- they can perform excellently, but you have to be absolutely precise in giving them a command.
Could it be that my default "/Downloads" sub-directory is spelled with an upper case, therefore confusing Linux, telling it where to look for the file or app in question? Or is it some other issue with the instructions? Once again, the instructions are located at:
.
[self-correction: No. It's Ubuntu-based.]
In short, how to I get these theme-and-icon files safely into their /.themes and /.icons destinations?
Thanks in advance.
*
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