Switch Theme 3.0 (UPDATED 08/12/18)

WylieCoyote

@lilbud Well, there's my problem. In /etc/emulatationstation/themes I have 'darkswitch' and 'lightswitch' and no es-theme-switch. Apologies, I suspect I'm referring to a completely different theme. Noted github link at the top of the thread, will download try again.

WylieCoyote

@lilbud All working perfectly (once I figured out how to change permissions on the config.xml). Many thanks for your excellent theme and apologies for the oversight on my part.

natanpi

Hello, so I saw a video on youtube about that theme and decided to download it in my RetroPie, this theme is very awesome but when I installed that theme it doesn't have the icons that I saw in the video, how can I add these icons?.

lilbud

@natanpi That ain't my theme. That one was made by someone else (can't think of the name off the top of my head) who didn't realize there was an existing one already.

Mine should be labelled under lilbud on the downloader.

I don't have plans to add those icons currently.

natanpi

@lilbud oh I don't know that. I found the guy who made this theme, this theme is from Dwayne Hurst, anyway thank you!!!

lilbud

@natanpi Thats the name! Dwaynes name slipped my mind for a while.

cyperghost

@lilbud Is it possible to port your theme to BATOCERA OS? They forked the RetroPie ES and your theme is ideal for small devices!
As last step it can be integrated into their theme downloader

mitu

@cyperghost Didn't they implement in their ES fork some kind of compatibility with the RetroPie fork, so the themes used in RetroPie would work also in Batocera ?

cyperghost

@mitu
Yes ... it works.
Therefore I kindly ask for permission to fork.

But on my second "test" system is a 7" DSI display with BATOCERA on it. And there the theme lacks. I've reenabled the help system and need to set bottom and top lines.

No worries - RetroPie is still my main system ;)

Adolfo

I know this may sound dumb, but how do switch to the dark theme?

mitu

@Adolfo Re-read the first post - you need to edit the theme.xml file.

Adolfo

@mitu I opened the theme.xml file but don't know what to edit exactly.

lilbud

@Adolfo where it says "light.xml", change that to say "dark.xml"

Adolfo

@lilbud that's what I tried looking for but I don't find a line that says that. I'm using notepad++ and tried searching for it and didn't find it that way either.

lilbud

@Adolfo It's near the top, right under the contact info

Juakin

@Wolverine1977 That would be awesome, I find it's best for a CRT-Screen only to have the Games list and a BigImage.

dugo3number2

@Global-Moderators Please delete this

mitu

@dugo3number2 ports is already included in the theme.

Gremko

Hello,

I like this theme very well, very good work.
is it possible to choose a background picture instead of just one color?

lilbud

@Gremko I guess so. You'd have to heavily modify the theme to do so though.