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gtk themes won't apply partially..

Posted: 27. Mar 2010, 11:28
by 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.

Re: gtk themes won't apply partially..

Posted: 27. Mar 2010, 13:35
by 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

Re: gtk themes won't apply partially..

Posted: 27. Mar 2010, 13:39
by 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

Re: gtk themes won't apply partially..

Posted: 27. Mar 2010, 14:02
by linuxcritic
Perfect.. Moving it to /usr/share/themes worked immediately. Thanks!