GnuSkin Download & Installation Instructions

Briefly:

• Download GnuSkin-1.2.zip from TWiki:Plugins/GnuSkinInstall
• Unzip it in your twiki installation directory.
  Contents:

• To verify installation check the TWikiPlugins topic, the GnuSkinPlugin^? should be listed there. See also the TWikiSkins topic for help on activating a skin.
• Briefly, skim through the TWikiPreferences or the WebPreferences and:
  • make sure the SKINHANDLER is set to Gnu
  • and the SKIN variable is set to gnu.

Comprehensively:

• Download GnuSkin-1.2.zip from TWiki:Plugins/GnuSkinInstall

• Unpack the archive inside your TWiki installation directory. (All the GnuSkin files have a Gnu substring embedded to ensure you do not overwrite any of TWiki's original files.)

• Alternatively, you can check out the latest versions of the GnuSkin and WebMenu from The GNU Savannah CVS repository. http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/twiki-skins/

• In case you do not have the TWiki:Plugins/TigerSkin installed you also need to download and install the WebMenu package in the same directory. The GnuSkin and the TWiki:Plugins/TigerSkin shares the WebMenu format.

• Edit the WebMenu topic to set the contents of the menu bar. See the WebMenuFormat for details.

• Add the following line to TWikiPreferences or to any WebPreferences topic. Remember, six spaces an asterisk and the Set keyword to specify an option.
  • Set SKIN = gnu

• If using multiple skin handlers then the following line needs to be included in TWikiPreferences to set the TWiki wide default or in a specific WebPreferences topic to use the Gnu Skin handler only for that Web.
  • Set SKINHANDLER = Gnu

• Note: If this is the first (and only) skin handler the TWiki skin handler defaults to procssing the SKIN unless SKINHANDLER is set to some value besides Gnu.

• For more settings see the GnuSkinPlugin^? topic.

-- HurdWiki^?:Main/JoachimNilsson - March 2nd 2003