GTK theme changing [SOLVED]

Hi! I recently shifted to openbox. Whenever I'm trying to change my themes [which I've extracted in ~/.themes ]
through switch2 or gtk-chtheme I get "Segmentation fault" and the theme remains the default ugly one.
Please help.
Last edited by sHyLoCk (2009-07-06 13:14:00)

arkham wrote:Try lxappereance.
I get this:
> lxappearance
(lxappearance:6127): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
(lxappearance:6143): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
Do I need to edit something? I put my custon icon in gtkrc-2.0
gtk-icon-theme-name = "MaXo-ReMix"
and it works fine.
Also I have tried with gtk2_prefs and it changes the "preview" window perfectly, and when I click "apply" it says: Will overwrite ~/.gtkrc-2.0 , I click yes, but the theme doesn't change. Also the .gtkrc-2.0 file contains the same things I had written.

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