LXAppearance and LXSession

[thenktor]

zachary, you got it right. But a settings demon is not a session manager

[zAchAry]

AFAIK LXappearance just modifies the .gtkrc-2.0 file. Nothing else is needed.

True. x1

zachary, you got it right. But a settings demon is not a session manager

True. x2

maybe it has to do with how gnome and xfce manage their sessions, I guess

Exactly! I only noticed yesterday that /sbin/pidof lxsession is not running at all.
My problem was that I've used gnome-settings-daemon (on GNOME) or xfsettingsd (on Xfce) and LXAppearance can't affect the GTK+ applications when one of these settings demons is running at the same time... I feel so stupid but, at least, I got smarter

I figured this out when I've seen thenktor's Openbox autostart.sh, no session manager or settings demon was there whatsoever, and thenktor, of course, is using fancy GTK+ themes [screenshot], and I remember that I received this annotation from ray.

Offtopic:
I've also found today a really nice feature of the popup delay time of gtk+ menus
add to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file one of these lines:

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gtk-menu-popup-delay = 1
gtk-menu-popup-delay=4000
gtk-menu-popup-delay=2000