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# 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...(at least as far as I can tell)'''<br /><br /># 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:
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Steps to Automatically Run Emerald upon Linux Graphical Login:</u>
# Click '''SYSTEM -> PREFERENCES -> Startup Applications'''.
# The "'''Startup Applications Preferences'''" dialog box will appear.
# Click the "'''Add'''" button. The "'''Add Startup Program'''" dialog box will appear.
# Give the program a name like: Emerald Plugin
# Under the Command textbox, type : '''emerald --replace'''# Then click the "'''Add'''" button. Your additional program called "''Emerald Plugin''" will now be run whenever you login to your Linux graphical environment.
# Close the "'''Startup Applications Preferences'''" dialog box .
# To have the settings take effect, '''either reboot your system, or at least logout and login back into your Linux graphical environment'''.
Murray Saul