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Why is it that only some of my skins can be selected and others are simply greyed out on my XBMC ubuntu installation? I'm using the same files on my windows install, and it works perfectly.
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Make sure that the skins that are grayed out are not within an additional sub-folder of the original skin folder:
Xperience
----> Xperience
---------> [Skin Stuff]
I've had this happen to me twice. XBMC does look any further down in the folder structure than:
.xbmc/skin/[Skin]
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My skins are stored in /usr/share/xbmc/skin/skinname (something like that, off my head)
There are the same skins I use from my Windows install, just a drag and drop into the linux skin folder. I'd love to stick with Aeon Stark, but it runs pretty laggy in the Grid view on my Acer Aspire Revo.
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Bump. This is very annoying. I double checked all the skin files, and everything seems correct.
I can't even unrar the files on ubuntu because there is no good unraring program. The one I have refuses to unrar the files, so I do everything on my windows machine.
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Lmao, I love this. I just did a complete reinstall of Ubuntu and XBMC and this problem still exists.
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mpukki
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Hi,
Could you please open terminal and do "ls -al" in skin directory and show the output and provide the username that you run xbmc from.
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1. You need to put any new skins in /home/youruser/.xbmc/skin
2. Not sure what problems you're having with rar, but you should just be able to right-click on the rar file and choose "extract here"
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Please do an ls -la of your skin folder, and then an ls -la of the xperience skin folder as well.
Post both outputs here, and also do the logfile suggested in the post above this.
ASRock ION 330, Lucid Lynx, XBMC Dharma (beta 2)
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Well, the more correct location for the skins on linux is
/home/[username]/.xbmc/skin
You already have permission to write there, so it's less hassle.
/usr/share/xbmc/skin
is the actual installation directory, but in order to write in this location you have to change permissions on the folder
chmod -R 777 /usr/share/xbmc/skin
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Okay, I tried placing the skin files in the appropriate user folder, none of the skins work except the default. Rapier, Aeon Aurigia and Alaska all give me the error 'We require skins of version 2.10 or higher'. Its very frustrating, to say the least. This is the last thing I thought I'd have problems with. What is a 'ls -la'? What is the exact command you want me to do? I'm new to ubuntu.
I'm so sorry for all the bumps, but I mean, I got everything else to work and it is extremely frustrating to know that this little thing is holding me back. These files work PERFECTLY on my Windows XBMC install, so it can't be the files.