brendankoch Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 So I have been trying to change my Chameleon theme on my iatkos v7 installation and have been unsuccessful. Everywhere I have found says that you should have an "Extra" folder on the root of your drive that contains your "com.apple.boot.plist" file, your Extra extensions, and your themes for chameleon. On my installation however, my "Extra" folder only contains my extra extensions. There is a folder on the root of my drive named ".Chameleon" that contains another "Extra" folder containing more extra extensions and my themes - but no "com.apple.boot.plist". My installation is using the "com.apple.boot.plist" located in /Library/Preferences/System Configuration/. So I put the theme I want to use which is named "Boot_Camp" in the themes folder within ".Chameleon" and added: <key>Theme</key <string>Boot_Camp</string> to my com.apple.boot.plist but it has no effect on my theme. My installation is a default iatkos v7 installation so I haven't messed with anything so I don't understand why my Chameleon is installed differently than everyone elses... Any tips? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176695-help-installing-themes-on-chameleon-20/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
brendankoch Posted July 29, 2009 Author Share Posted July 29, 2009 Is no one on this forum using Iatkos v7? No one has any idea why the Chameleon bootloader is installed differently? On my Dell mini 9 running os x chameleon is installed normally... I even tried updating to RC2 and its still installed differently than normal. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176695-help-installing-themes-on-chameleon-20/#findComment-1211790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
imacken Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 So I have been trying to change my Chameleon theme on my iatkos v7 installation and have been unsuccessful. Everywhere I have found says that you should have an "Extra" folder on the root of your drive that contains your "com.apple.boot.plist" file, your Extra extensions, and your themes for chameleon. On my installation however, my "Extra" folder only contains my extra extensions. There is a folder on the root of my drive named ".Chameleon" that contains another "Extra" folder containing more extra extensions and my themes - but no "com.apple.boot.plist". My installation is using the "com.apple.boot.plist" located in /Library/Preferences/System Configuration/. So I put the theme I want to use which is named "Boot_Camp" in the themes folder within ".Chameleon" and added: <key>Theme</key <string>Boot_Camp</string> to my com.apple.boot.plist but it has no effect on my theme. My installation is a default iatkos v7 installation so I haven't messed with anything so I don't understand why my Chameleon is installed differently than everyone elses... Any tips? Well, I'm in the same boat. Exactly the same situation although I don't have a folder called .Chameleon at all. Things I don't understand 1) how to install themes (same problem as you) as I can't see the correct folders or boot.plist file apart from the one mentioned above. 2) why doesn't the main menu ever show a bootable DVD/CD? 3) why do the 'special keys' F5 or F10 not work as per the help menu. I'm totally confused by the whole customising Chameleon thing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176695-help-installing-themes-on-chameleon-20/#findComment-1215530 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott_donald Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 anyone have a solution for this??? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176695-help-installing-themes-on-chameleon-20/#findComment-1220423 Share on other sites More sharing options...
imacken Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 OK, this is what you have to do. 1) You need a folder called Extra in the root of your Mac partition. 2) In that you need a Themes folder, which must contain a folder, e.g. 'My_Theme', containing the Theme you want to use. 3) In the Extra folder you need a com.apple.Boot.plist file which must contain the lines <key>Theme</key <string>My_Theme</string> Then, everything should be OK. Still, if RC2 has installed correctly, you should already have these things there already except for the 2 lines in boot.plist. Good luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176695-help-installing-themes-on-chameleon-20/#findComment-1220508 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott_donald Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 OK, this is what you have to do. 1) You need a folder called Extra in the root of your Mac partition. 2) In that you need a Themes folder, which must contain a folder, e.g. 'My_Theme', containing the Theme you want to use. 3) In the Extra folder you need a com.apple.Boot.plist file which must contain the lines <key>Theme</key <string>My_Theme</string> Then, everything should be OK. Still, if RC2 has installed correctly, you should already have these things there already except for the 2 lines in boot.plist. Good luck! the com.apple.Boot.plist file is not there with iatkos... no idea where it is for it... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176695-help-installing-themes-on-chameleon-20/#findComment-1220523 Share on other sites More sharing options...
imacken Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 Are you saying it's not in the Extra folder, or the Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration folder? If you have the system one, then just copy it into the Extra folder and put in the 2 lines mentioned above. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176695-help-installing-themes-on-chameleon-20/#findComment-1220844 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott_donald Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 Are you saying it's not in the Extra folder, or the Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration folder? If you have the system one, then just copy it into the Extra folder and put in the 2 lines mentioned above. ye found it there... so just copy it and not remove it from original??? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176695-help-installing-themes-on-chameleon-20/#findComment-1220886 Share on other sites More sharing options...
imacken Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 Just copy it. Did you install Chameleon RC2? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176695-help-installing-themes-on-chameleon-20/#findComment-1220954 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott_donald Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 Just copy it. Did you install Chameleon RC2? ye have rc2 installed... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176695-help-installing-themes-on-chameleon-20/#findComment-1220956 Share on other sites More sharing options...
imacken Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 Strange then that you don't have the Extra folder with themes inside and the boot.plist, but still try what we said and see how you get on. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176695-help-installing-themes-on-chameleon-20/#findComment-1220966 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mil0sh Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 .Chameleon is hidden. To see it, use terminal sudo su (enter your password) ls with ls command you will see all folders on your root partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176695-help-installing-themes-on-chameleon-20/#findComment-1256259 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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