SMPlayer Support Forum

Hi, my distro, openSUSE, provides up to date SMPlayer versions that are compiled with the five main skins thrown in, so, under 'Skinnable GUI' you can choose between your regular five skin options.

The "themes" package from sourceforge isn't compiled so when you change from "skinnable gui" to basic, mini or mpc, the "Icon Set" option remains at "Default" because nothing is installed - as it should be.

I want to install the themes package, what's the correct way to do this now things have changed?

Thanks.

If you're using smplayer from svn, it's enough to copy the folders in themes/ to ~/.config/smplayer/themes.
If you're using smplayer 14.9 then you need first to type "make" to build the rcc files.

The rcc command is in one of the Qt4 development packages. Probably in libqt4-devel.

"make install" will install the themes in /usr/local/share/smplayer/themes. But if you installed smplayer from a rpm package then probably smplayer won't find the themes because it will look for them in /usr/share/smplayer/themes.

You can copy manually the themes under the smplayer config directory ($HOME/.config/smplayer/themes), and smplayer should find them.

Thanks for your help. Got it now.

You're right about the rpm folder thing.

Anybody looking in, you might have to create that themes folder in $HOME/.config/smplayer/ but once you dump the themes off in there they show up in the GUI menu like they are supposed to.