gtk themes won't apply partially..

[linuxcritic]

I'm a tad confused, I have used lxappearance to apply some gtk themes. It shows them fine and applies them without issues yet some of the apps don't show the changes.

Firefox for instance, uses the gtk theme without issues yet when I open gslapt, it does not. I'm at a loss as to how to resolve.

[Shador]

With gslapt the problem is that, it's a programm ran as root. So the settings applied for your users don't apply for it.
You have to run lxappearance separately for your root user:

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su -c lxappearance

BTW for QT apps you have to change the settings, too. You can set it to use the gtk themes using qtconfig. Also for your user and root, if you want so

[ray]

@Shador,

Thats wierd, in Xfce, my gtk theme works fine for apps run as root as well.
Only thing to keep in mind is that the theme has to be in /usr/share/themes ; themes installed locally dont work with apps run as root.

Regards,
ray

[linuxcritic]

Perfect.. Moving it to /usr/share/themes worked immediately. Thanks!