Theme installation issues (Bluecurve) | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

opaque wren Jan 30, 2026, 7:32 PM

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hello, i’m trying to install bluecurve by running the install.sh file provided with it, and although it prints in the terminal that the installation was successful, nothing appears in either of my themes folders. i’ve tried running it as a regular user and as the superuser. how should i proceed to solve this? i am using the Cinnamon DE provided with Mint

shell sentinel Jan 30, 2026, 9:40 PM

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right click 'install.sh' in a file manager: open with text editor.

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read it top to bottom and see WHAT IT DOES, and WHERE it PUTS STUFF.

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and if it's for KDE plasma, not only are u barking up the wrong tree, you may well have broken stuff

opaque wren Jan 30, 2026, 9:50 PM

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shell sentinel read it top to bottom and see WHAT IT DOES, and WHERE it PUTS STUFF.

i did that earlier and it didnt have complete directories, it just said something like ~/.themes

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and if it’s the hidden themes folder, it can only be one of the two

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and it wasnt in that

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unless theres more than 2 themes folders

opaque wren Jan 30, 2026, 9:51 PM

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shell sentinel and if it's for KDE plasma, not only are u barking up the wrong tree, you may we...

nah i read a bunch of reddit posts where people recommended using it on mint

shell sentinel Jan 30, 2026, 9:51 PM

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do ctrl-L in file manager.

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erase whatever's in that field, and put ~/.themes and press enter

opaque wren Jan 30, 2026, 9:53 PM

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shell sentinel and if it's for KDE plasma, not only are u barking up the wrong tree, you may we...

how could it break anything? it’s just compiling a theme and copying it to a directory somewhere

opaque wren Jan 30, 2026, 9:53 PM

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shell sentinel erase whatever's in that field, and put ~/.themes and press enter

i’ll do that when i get off work in an hour

shell sentinel Jan 30, 2026, 9:58 PM

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opaque wren how could it break anything? it’s just compiling a theme and copying it to a dir...

js, don't run any plasma scripts or attempt to install plasma themes on GTK desktops

opaque wren Jan 30, 2026, 9:58 PM

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okay, understood

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just to confirm, by the way, it says the theme is for GTK 3 and 4, so it should work with cinnamon, right?

opaque wren Jan 31, 2026, 12:18 AM

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shell sentinel erase whatever's in that field, and put ~/.themes and press enter

okay it's in root/.themes

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i did it in elevated privilige nemo so i'll try it in normal nemo too

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when i do it normally, it goes to <my username>/.themes

shell sentinel Jan 31, 2026, 12:19 AM

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wait what

opaque wren Jan 31, 2026, 12:19 AM

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i'll just copy the files in the root directory to the other one

shell sentinel Jan 31, 2026, 12:19 AM

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why the FK is it in root?

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that's the bloody admin's home!

opaque wren Jan 31, 2026, 12:20 AM

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i'm pretty sure i ran the script as me and not root

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i ran it as root too, but i also ran it as me

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so it should be in my user directory

shell sentinel Jan 31, 2026, 12:20 AM

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well never run scripts as root. ever. unless they came from God himself.

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or the makers of Ventoy.

opaque wren Jan 31, 2026, 12:21 AM

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this is the install script by the way

📎 install.sh

shell sentinel Jan 31, 2026, 12:21 AM

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open root nemo , and just cut n paste the theme out of the admin's home themes folder into YOUR USER's home .themes folder

opaque wren Jan 31, 2026, 12:22 AM

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looks like i installed a gtk 2 engine as part of it, was that necessary?

opaque wren Jan 31, 2026, 12:22 AM

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shell sentinel open root nemo , and just cut n paste the theme out of the admin's home themes f...

alright, i figured i should try that

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anyways nothing in that script looks evil right

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okay i was able to enable it in advanced settings in the applications tab of the themes app

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but it just makes my window top border thing disappear lol

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it gives me a theme parsing error in terminal and also says theres no nemo support

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also, the theme only appears in my list of application themes. it doesn't show up in mouse pointers, icons or desktop

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and it doesnt appear in the simplified settings for themes

shell sentinel Jan 31, 2026, 12:29 AM

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man i never install fucking scripts to do a theme. except ONE time with Chicago Fier.

opaque wren Jan 31, 2026, 12:29 AM

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this is so chopped

shell sentinel Jan 31, 2026, 12:29 AM

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the fact the god damn script references .so files n shit.. jesus fucking christ

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#1370807950557577247 message

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^ that's all u should ever need to do

opaque wren Jan 31, 2026, 12:32 AM

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i did that with a classiclooks xfce theme, which was on the cinnamon looks website linked there in that message you just forwarded, and though i installed it with no script it has the same problems

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the icons and desktop theme part of it dont exist according to my themes settings

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just the applications part

opaque wren Jan 31, 2026, 12:59 AM

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shell sentinel the fact the god damn script references .so files n shit.. jesus fucking christ

i have the source code for the .so file written in C, any red flags i should look for?

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i just read it all and it's probably fine

shell sentinel Jan 31, 2026, 1:59 AM

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opaque wren i did that with a classiclooks xfce theme, which was on the cinnamon looks websi...

are u actually using xfce as your desktop?

opaque wren Jan 31, 2026, 2:07 AM

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if it's xfce, why's it on the Cinnamon themes site?

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it does work though, it just doesn't have icons like i expected

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i'm using it right now

shell sentinel Jan 31, 2026, 2:08 AM

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wait is it a GTK theme or xfwm theme?

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there's a difference

opaque wren Jan 31, 2026, 2:08 AM

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it's a gtk theme

shell sentinel Jan 31, 2026, 2:09 AM

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yeah what ever says GTK theme means strictly that. icons themes are separate packs.

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can't go wholly by the pictures.

opaque wren Jan 31, 2026, 2:09 AM

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as per the gtk-2.0 and gtk-3.0 folders in the file

#Theme installation issues (Bluecurve)