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 As a matter of fact, "thinking" of the gtk colors as early as drawing the theme can save a lot of time in this phase. If you use the exact same color across all the pixmaps, you can use the Search/Replace functionnality of the text editor to add the color symbols. You could even use a tool such as "sed" to perform mass changes in all the XPM files of the theme. As a matter of fact, "thinking" of the gtk colors as early as drawing the theme can save a lot of time in this phase. If you use the exact same color across all the pixmaps, you can use the Search/Replace functionnality of the text editor to add the color symbols. You could even use a tool such as "sed" to perform mass changes in all the XPM files of the theme.
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 This technique has several advantages: This technique has several advantages:
  
-    * It's fairly simple from a theme designer point of view, most people are working with similar techniques when compising themes with tools such as The GIMP.+    * It's fairly simple from a theme designer point of view, most people are working with similar techniques when composing themes with tools such as [[http://www.gimp.org/|The GIMP]].
     * It's backward compatible with xfwm4 from Xfce 4.0, the PNG files are just ignored by xfwm4 4.0.     * It's backward compatible with xfwm4 from Xfce 4.0, the PNG files are just ignored by xfwm4 4.0.
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 ===== Conclusion ===== ===== Conclusion =====
-I hope this small "how-to" for creating themes for xfwm4 will help you design your own themes. It would be great if you could share your themes with others on www.themedepot.org (which is the prefered site for xfce related themes) or from themes.freshmeat.net.+I hope this small "how-to" for creating themes for xfwm4 will help you design your own themes. It would be great if you could share your themes with others on [[http://www.themedepot.org]] (which is the prefered site for xfce related themes) or from [[http://themes.freshmeat.net]]. 
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 +you can also find xfce theme at [[http://www.xfce-look.org]]
  
 ===== Credits ===== ===== Credits =====
 This how-to has been started by Drewbian (drewbian at tsn dot cc) and later modifed by Olivier Fourdan (fourdan at xfce dot org). This how-to has been started by Drewbian (drewbian at tsn dot cc) and later modifed by Olivier Fourdan (fourdan at xfce dot org).