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    • pjmcphizzle

      Please help with including other xml files in theme
      Projects and Themes • include xml switch theme issue • • pjmcphizzle

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      pjmcphizzle

      @kiro Thank you for the help! The problem is that I just don't understand what I'm doing.

      So up top I have my variables listed in theme.xml, but that's just to avoid confusion here. In reality, I have my variables in variables.xml, with I have included in theme.xml. It should do the same thing, or so I thought.

      Viewing the code to carbon, I noticed the include tags are in carbon.xml, not theme.xml.

      In my theme I included variables.xml to views.xml and it seemed to have fixed everything. I don't understand why though, you think it would need to be added to the main xml the theme loads so that way all xmls inherit the variables. I have a helpsystem.xml just like the views.xml, but I only included the variables to views.xml and it fixed the helpsystem... I just... don't understand...

      Anyway, thanks for the help, I'm going to go cry in a corner and question if I should even continue haha.

    • DlpTheHuman

      Theme Option Gone
      Help and Support • theme issue • • DlpTheHuman

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      mitu

      Currently the themes installation menu shows (installed) next to installed themes:

      01966fb0-e9b7-47ce-bbe8-06dfa2ff2527-image.png

      As for the error during install, the only thing I see being an issue is the internet connection - is your Pi system connected to the internet ? If you run an update of the RetroPie-Setup script, does it work or it errors out ?

    • philcsf

      Page Up/Down function on ES Textlists (via LB/RB) Not Accurate?
      Ideas and Development • emulationstaton bug report theme issue • • philcsf

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      Lolonois

      Submitted PR#740 to address this.

    • NickUK

      RetroPie themes graphics disapear
      Help and Support • graphical issue theme issue blank • • NickUK

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      sirhenrythe5th

      As this question has not really been answered yet: for the people who bought a 4/8GB Pi4: as far as this amount will never be useful for the emulators, would it be helpful to increase the VRAM to 2/4GB?

    • alucardvania

      new to retropie having trouble with an image
      Help and Support • help me please theme issue steampunk noobie • • alucardvania

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      mitu

      We don't support 3rd party images, as outlined in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

      Use the image from retropie.org.uk/download to install RetroPie.

    • WeirdH

      Theme behaviour when returning to Emulationstation
      Help and Support • emulationstatio theme issue • • WeirdH

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      ruckage

      @WeirdH
      Noticing the same thing myself. My guess is it's the images being loaded one by one but it does look ugly. Not sure if anyone else can confirm this or if a fix is possible.

    • jrl

      Theme seems broken and I'm unable to apply any themes
      Help and Support • theme theme help theme issue • • jrl

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      jrl

      I tried to apply some of the themes from the list you linked and they don't work either. Same result as on the first screenshots I posted.

      The Carbon theme kind of does apply but now breaks when opening a system:

      I guess there's just something wrong with the package on AUR and I need to find some other way of installing the ES. Thanks for your help!

    • Crispy

      Carbon theme: background transitions as well as controller graphic
      Help and Support • carbon theme theme issue carbon • • Crispy

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      mitu

      @Crispy The only change that would affect this should be the changes in Emulationstation. The desktop - I assume - is only started on-demand.
      You can take a look at the theme - it's in /etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon. If you wish to modify it, copy the folder to $HOME/.emulationstation/themes/carbon-mine and make your modifications there.

    • nkstr

      Broken Menu in EmulationStation
      Help and Support • menu gui theme issue • • nkstr

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      hostolis

      I have the same setup as you (mostly) and had the exact same problem. Do what @mitu said, set gpu memory split to at least 256MB.

    • zerobyzero

      "selectorImagePath" only used as alpha channel?
      Projects and Themes • theme theme issue selection bar • • zerobyzero

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      zerobyzero

      That was it! So it seems the selectorColor property is a multiplying value.

      Regards and thank you very much.

      EDIT: You can see the result here alt text

      ...no I can remove the UP/DOWN help from the bottom.

    • droople

      could not find file "" log related to the theme
      Help and Support • emulationstaion log files theme issue themes carbon • • droople

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      Agrajag

      @iazrt The Showcase theme (my favorite) does the same thing as well and also has a blank tag which I just removed. Just search for >< and you'll easily find a blank.

    • benjaminjay

      Carousel Image Size
      Help and Support • theme issue carousel • • benjaminjay

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    • Ciofalello

      Problem with a new theme (strange artifacts, slow refresh)
      Help and Support • theme issue • • Ciofalello

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      mitu

      @ciofalello That's not all the information asked in the page.
      What is your Video RAM limit in Emulationstation ?

    • RetroJag1

      How do you add themes on retropie 4.4
      Help and Support • theme issue themes emultionstation • • RetroJag1

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      RetroJag1

      It worked thanks guys:)

    • Dal1980

      Assets loading as white placeholders
      Projects and Themes • wsod theme issue white boxes memory • • Dal1980

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      mitu

      @dal1980 While you're developing your theme, it's good to start ES with the --debug flag and look in the log file to spot any errors coming from the .xml files parsing. The log file is in /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_log.txt.