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# Click on the "'''Apply'''" button. In a few moments, that application will automatically be downloaded and installed on your system.
# When completed, close the Synaptic Package Manager application window.
Now that the Emerald Plugin has been installed, you can now run the "Emerald Theme Manager" to set your Window Decorations. For an example, we will be setting the theme "vrunner" (a transparent theme), changing the titlebar colors, and setting the windows buttons to "glow".
<u>Steps to Make Settings in the Emerald Theme Manager:</u>
# Click '''SYSTEM -> PREFERENCES -> Emerald Theme Manager'''.
# The "Emerald Themer" dialog box will appear. You will note that the Emerald Themer dialog box contains a heirarchy of tabs. The top level tab called "Theme Settings" and the sub-tab called "Themes" should be active.
# Click on the sub-tab "Edit Themes". Under "Edit Themes", the sub-tab "Frame Engine" should be active.
# Click on "Select Engine" list box. There are many different versions: for our example, select "vrunner".
# You can now select different colors for the left/middle/right portion of the Window titlebar. Try selecting some different colors (to suit your taste).
# You can also change the Opacity (in very loose terms: "the level of transparency") for each of the left/middle/right portions of the window titlebar.
# After you have made your selections, click on the "Buttons" sub-tab and click to select the options "Use Button Halo/Glow" and "Use Button Halo/Glow For Inactive Windows".
# Click on the Titlebar sub-tab. On the right-side under the Section "Titlebar" click on the section "Title-Text Font", and select a larger font size.<br /><br />NOTE: The reason why you size font size in this dialog box, is that when setting the font size when using SYSTEM -> PREFERENCES -> APPEARANCE won't work when using the Emerald window decorator plugin...
# When you have made your selections, then click the "SAVE" button at the bottom, and then click "QUIT"
After performing these steps, you will not see a change in the appearance of your application windows. This may change in future Ubuntu distributions, but to change the appearance, you need to run the command: emerald --replace
Of course, this is silly having to do this each and every time you login to your desktop environment, so here is a trick:
Steps to run Emerald Plugin Automatically upon Graphical Login: