Lxapperance fails to change GTK+ theme [WORKAROUND]

Hello all.
First time using Arch Linux, and it's a pretty awesome distro.
Just installed lxde and when trying to change the GTK+ theme using lxapperance, the window flickers, but the theme remains with the standard "unthemed" appearence. I have tried rezlooks and cillop-midnite and neither display.
Anybody else have this problem?
Last edited by w23 (2009-12-22 22:38:41)

Thought it was just me.
I too had some weirdness with the new version of lxappearance. I did some checking and here is what I found out. Luckily I had a complete backup copy of my directory and found lxappearance wasn't creating ~/.gtkrc-2.0 correctly. When you change themes in lxappearance it's supposed to dynamically change this file and it wasn't for some reason. Mine turned out to be blank. When I went back to an old copy and pasted that info back into the new ~/.gtkrc-2.0 everything worked again. I reinstalled and now it seems to be changing the way it's supposed too. Still getting massive error messages like you though.
You can manually change themes without lxappearance by creating and hand editing ~/.gtkrc-2.0. You must log out and back in for the changes to take effect although if I remember right there was a command you could type to regenerate gtk and change without having to log-out first but I can't remember what it was.
Since I have lxappearance installed (and as the comment says) further customization must be done in ~/.gtkrc-2.0.mine as the original ~/.gtkrc-2.0 is overwritten each time you change a theme in lxappearance.
Here's a copy of my ~/.gtkrc-2.0 for reference.
Also here is a explanation of what ~/.gtkrc-2.0 does (in case your interested).
http://linux.byexamples.com/archives/23 … ktop-user/
# DO NOT EDIT! This file will be overwritten by LXAppearance.
# Any customization should be done in ~/.gtkrc-2.0.mine
gtk-theme-name="MurrineGlow Gray"
gtk-icon-theme-name="hicolor"
gtk-font-name="Sans 10"
gtk-toolbar-style=2
gtk-cursor-theme-name="(null)"
gtk-cursor-theme-size=16
include "/root/.gtkrc-2.0.mine"
Don't know if this helps but I hope.

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ythickness = 1
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style "murrine-scale"
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style "murrine-scrollbar"
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style "murrine-vscrollbar" = "murrine-scrollbar"
style "murrine-menubar" = "murrine-dark"
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Hello,
I recently moved to Macchiato gtk theme, which is very nice. Sadly it has a problem with Firefox/Thunderbird buttons that I'm unable to fix. Explained by images:
no mouse over button:
(if you look closer, you'll see that text is barely visible, but bg/fg colors are almost same)
mouse over button:
I tried playing with gtkrc, no luck. I'm using gtk-engine-murrine svn as of Feb 26.
Help please.
gtkrc for convenience
# Macchiato
# by Jesse L. Kay
# Last revision: 29 December 2008
# Set GtkSettings color scheme property.
# This can be overriden (via an xsetting) with eg. the gnome-appearance-properties.
gtk_color_scheme = "fg_color:#323232\nbg_color:#D3CAAA\nbase_color:#DED4B3\ntext_color:#323232\nselected_bg_color:#9C9478\nselected_fg_color:#fff\ntooltip_bg_color:#ebeab8\ntooltip_fg_color:#323232"
style "murrine-default"
# Style Properties
GtkButton ::child-displacement-x = 1
GtkButton ::child-displacement-y = 1
GtkButton ::default-border = { 0, 0, 0, 0 }
GtkCheckButton ::indicator-size = 14
GtkPaned ::handle-size = 6
GtkRange ::trough-border = 1
GtkRange ::slider-width = 8
GtkRange ::stepper-size = 13
GtkScale ::slider-length = 14
GtkScale ::slider-width = 8
GtkScale ::stepper-size = 13
GtkScale ::trough-side-details = 0
GtkScrollbar ::min-slider-length = 30
GtkMenuBar ::internal-padding = 0
GtkExpander ::expander-size = 16
GtkToolbar ::internal-padding = 1
GtkTreeView ::expander-size = 12
GtkTreeView ::vertical-separator = 0
GtkOptionMenu ::indicator-size = 0
GtkMenu ::horizontal-padding = 0
GtkMenu ::vertical-padding = 0
GtkScrolledWindow::scrollbar-spacing = 3
GtkNotebook::tab-curvature = 3
GtkNotebook::tab-overlap = 4
# Glow the tasklist by changing the color, instead of overlaying it with a rectangle
WnckTasklist ::fade-overlay-rect = 0
#WnckTasklist ::fade-loop-time = 5.0
#WnckTasklist ::fade-opacity = 0.7
xthickness = 1
ythickness = 1
fg[NORMAL] = @fg_color
fg[PRELIGHT] = @fg_color
fg[SELECTED] = @selected_fg_color
fg[INSENSITIVE] = darker (@bg_color)
fg[ACTIVE] = shade (0.60, @fg_color) #pidgin tabs, unselected tabs
bg[NORMAL] = @bg_color
bg[ACTIVE] = shade (0.60, @bg_color)
bg[PRELIGHT] = shade (0.6, @bg_color)
bg[SELECTED] = @selected_bg_color
bg[INSENSITIVE] = shade (1.03,@bg_color)
base[NORMAL] = @base_color
base[PRELIGHT] = @base_color
base[SELECTED] = @selected_bg_color
base[INSENSITIVE] = @bg_color
base[ACTIVE] = @selected_bg_color
text[NORMAL] = @text_color
text[PRELIGHT] = @text_color
text[SELECTED] = @selected_fg_color
text[INSENSITIVE] = @text_color
text[ACTIVE] = @text_color
# window background
bg_pixmap[NORMAL] = "window-bg.png"
engine "murrine"
animation = TRUE # FALSE = disabled, TRUE = enabled
colorize_scrollbar = TRUE # FALSE = disabled, TRUE = enabled
contrast = 0.8 # 0.8 for less contrast, more than 1.0 for more contrast on borders
glazestyle = 0 # 0 = flat highlight, 1 = curved highlight, 2 = concave style, 3 = top curved highlight, 4 = beryl highlight
gradient_shades = {1.09,1.01,1.01,0.9} # default: {1.1,1.0,1.0,1.1}
gradients = TRUE # FALSE = disabled, TRUE = enabled
highlight_ratio = 1.0 # set highlight amount for buttons or widgets
lightborder_ratio = 1.3 # sets lightborder amount for buttons or widgets
lightborderstyle = 1 # 0 = lightborder on top side, 1 = lightborder on all sides
listviewheaderstyle = 2 # 0 = flat, 1 = glassy, 2 = raised
listviewstyle = 1 # 0 = nothing, 1 = dotted
menubaritemstyle = 0 # 0 = menuitem look, 1 = button look
menubarstyle = 0 # 0 = flat, 1 = glassy, 2 = gradient, 3 = striped
menuitemstyle =0 # 0 = flat, 1 = glassy, 2 = striped
menustyle = 0 # 0 = no vertical menu stripe, 1 = display vertical menu stripe
reliefstyle = 0 # 0 = flat, 1 = inset, 2 = shadow
rgba = TRUE # FALSE = disabled, TRUE = enabled
roundness = 0 # 0 = squared, 1 = old default, more will increase roundness
scrollbarstyle = 0 # 0 = nothing, 1 = circles, 2 = handles, 3 = diagonal stripes, 4 = diagonal stripes and handles, 5 = horizontal stripes, 6 = horizontal stripes and handles
sliderstyle = 0 # 0 = nothing added, 1 = handles
stepperstyle = 1 # 0 = standard, 1 = integrated stepper handles, 2 = unknown
# style = MURRINE # engine style options: CANDIDO, CLEARLOOKS, MIST, MURRINE, NODOKA
toolbarstyle = 0 # 0 = flat, 1 = glassy, 2 = gradient
style "murrine-wide"
xthickness = 2
ythickness = 2
style "murrine-wider"
xthickness = 3
ythickness = 3
style "murrine-dark"
bg[NORMAL] = shade(0.2,@bg_color)
bg[SELECTED] = shade(0.9,@selected_bg_color)
bg[PRELIGHT] = shade (0.5, @selected_bg_color)
bg[ACTIVE] = mix (0.5, @selected_bg_color, shade(0.2,@bg_color))
bg[INSENSITIVE] = shade(0.2,@bg_color)
fg[NORMAL] = mix (0.9, '#ffffef', @fg_color)
fg[PRELIGHT] = mix (0.8, '#ffffef', @fg_color)
fg[SELECTED] = mix (0.8, '#ffffef', @fg_color)
fg[ACTIVE] = mix (0.8, '#ffffef', @fg_color)
fg[INSENSITIVE] = mix (0.9, '#ffffef', @fg_color)
style "murrine-button"
xthickness = 3
ythickness = 3
text[NORMAL] = "#000000"
text[PRELIGHT] = shade (0.20, @bg_color)
text[ACTIVE] = "#000000"
bg[NORMAL] = @bg_color
bg[PRELIGHT] = shade (1.20, @bg_color)
bg[ACTIVE] = @bg_color
fg[NORMAL] = @bg_color
style "murrine-toolbar" = "murrine-dark"
bg[SELECTED] = "#363330"
bg[NORMAL] = "#363330"
bg[PRELIGHT] = "#363330"
bg[ACTIVE] = "#363330"
engine "murrine"{
gradient_shades = {1.0,0.9,0.9,0.75}
profile = MURRINE
style "murrine-notebook-bg" = "murrine-default"
bg[NORMAL] = shade (1.05, @bg_color)
bg[ACTIVE] = shade (0.95, @bg_color)
xthickness = 2
style "murrine-notebook" = "murrine-notebook-bg"
xthickness = 2
style "murrine-tasklist"
xthickness = 3
ythickness = 3
style "murrine-panel" = "murrine-dark" {
xthickness = 3
ythickness = 3
bg[NORMAL] = "#4D453F"
bg[PRELIGHT] = shade (0.5, @bg_color)
bg[ACTIVE] = "#45413E"
fg[NORMAL] = @bg_color
fg[PRELIGHT] = @bg_color
fg[ACTIVE] = @bg_color
engine "murrine" {
roundness = 1
rgba = TRUE
highlight_ratio = 1.0
reliefstyle = 2
contrast = 0.8
style "murrine-menu" = "murrine-dark"
xthickness = 3
ythickness = 3
bg[NORMAL] = "#363330"
text[NORMAL] = @bg_color
text[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color
style "murrine-menu-item" = "murrine-dark"
xthickness = 3
ythickness = 3
bg[NORMAL] = "#363330"
engine "murrine" {
roundness = 0
contrast = 0.2
style "murrine-separator-menu-item"
GtkSeparatorMenuItem::horizontal-padding = 0
GtkWidget::wide-separators = 1
GtkWidget::separator-width = 1
GtkWidget::separator-height = 1
xthickness = 1
ythickness = 0
style "murrine-treeview"
# Based on the default style so that the colors from the button
# style are overriden again.
style "murrine-treeview-header" = "murrine-button"
xthickness = 2
ythickness = 1
GtkWidget::focus-line-width = 0
engine "murrine" {
# SZ07: This is added to tell the theme how to color checkmarks and radio items that are not in menus.
style "murrine-radiocheck" = "murrine-default"
text[NORMAL] = shade (1.15, @bg_color) # Color for checks/radio items.
text[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color # Color for selected checks/radio items.
engine "murrine"{
style "murrine-tooltips"
xthickness = 4
ythickness = 4
bg[NORMAL] = @tooltip_bg_color
fg[NORMAL] = @tooltip_fg_color
style "murrine-progressbar"
xthickness = 1
ythickness = 1
fg[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color
bg[SELECTED] = "#9C9478"
style "murrine-comboboxentry"
style "murrine-spinbutton"
style "murrine-scale"
bg[PRELIGHT] = shade(0.9,@bg_color)
style "murrine-hscale" = "murrine-scale"
style "murrine-vscale" = "murrine-scale"
style "murrine-scrollbar"
bg[NORMAL] = shade (1.0, @bg_color)
engine "murrine" {
#highlight_ratio = 1.3
scrollbar_color = "#9C9478"
#glazestyle = 0
roundness = 1
rgba = FALSE
GtkRange ::trough-border = 3
style "murrine-hscrollbar" = "murrine-scrollbar"
style "murrine-vscrollbar" = "murrine-scrollbar"
style "murrine-menubar" = "murrine-dark"
bg[NORMAL] = "#363330"
engine "murrine"{
gradient_shades = {1.0,0.9,0.9,0.75}
style "murrine-frame"
#Uncomment for dark statusbars. Breaks some apps.
bg[ACTIVE] = shade(0.2,@bg_color)
fg[NORMAL] = mix (1.5, @fg_color, '#ffffff')
fg[PRELIGHT] = mix (1.4, @fg_color, '#ffffff')
style "murrine-frame-title" = "murrine-frame"
fg[NORMAL] = lighter (@fg_color)
style "murrine-nautilus-location"
bg[NORMAL] = mix(0.60, shade (1.05,@bg_color), @selected_bg_color)
# Matches
# murrine default style is applied to every widget
class "GtkWidget" style "murrine-default"
# Increase the x/ythickness in some widgets
class "GtkRange" style "murrine-default"
class "GtkFrame" style "murrine-frame"
class "GtkSeparator" style "murrine-wide"
class "GtkEntry" style "murrine-wider"
class "GtkStatusbar" style "murrine-default"
class "GtkToolbar" style "murrine-toolbar"
class "GtkMenuBar" style:highest "murrine-menubar"
class "*HandleBox" style "murrine-toolbar"
widget_class "*HandleBox" style "murrine-toolbar"
class "GtkSpinButton" style "murrine-spinbutton"
class "GtkScale" style "murrine-scale"
class "GtkVScale" style "murrine-vscale"
class "GtkHScale" style "murrine-hscale"
class "GtkScrollbar" style "murrine-scrollbar"
class "GtkVScrollbar" style "murrine-vscrollbar"
class "GtkHScrollbar" style "murrine-hscrollbar"
class "GtkButton" style "murrine-button"
class "GtkRadioButton*" style "murrine-radiocheck" # SZ07: Added for the checkmarks/radio
class "GtkCheckButton" style "murrine-radiocheck" # SZ07: Added for the checkmarks/radio
# General matching following, the order is choosen so that the right styles override each other
# eg. progressbar needs to be more important then the menu match.
widget_class "*<GtkNotebook>*<GtkEventBox>" style "murrine-notebook-bg"
widget_class "*<GtkStatusbar>*" style "murrine-wider"
widget_class "*<GtkNotebook>*<GtkDrawingArea>" style "murrine-notebook-bg"
widget_class "*<GtkNotebook>*<GtkLayout>" style "murrine-notebook-bg"
widget_class "*<GtkNotebook>" style "murrine-notebook"
widget_class "*<GtkComboBoxEntry>*" style "murrine-comboboxentry"
widget_class "*<GtkCombo>*" style "murrine-comboboxentry"
widget_class "*<GtkMenu>*" style "murrine-menu"
widget_class "*<GtkMenuItem>*" style "murrine-menu-item"
widget_class "*<GtkSeparatorMenuItem>*" style "murrine-separator-menu-item"
widget_class "*<GtkFrame>" style "murrine-frame"
widget_class "*.<GtkFrame>.<GtkLabel>" style "murrine-frame-title"
widget_class "*.<GtkTreeView>*" style "murrine-treeview"
widget_class "*<GtkStatusbar>*" style "murrine-wider"
widget_class "*<GtkProgressBar>" style "murrine-progressbar"
# Treeview header
widget_class "*.<GtkTreeView>.<GtkButton>" style "murrine-treeview-header"
widget_class "*.<GtkCTree>.<GtkButton>" style "murrine-treeview-header"
widget_class "*.<GtkList>.<GtkButton>" style "murrine-treeview-header"
widget_class "*.<GtkCList>.<GtkButton>" style "murrine-treeview-header"
widget_class "*<GtkToolbar>.*" style "murrine-toolbar"
#Panel
widget "*PanelWidget*" style "murrine-panel"
widget "*PanelApplet*" style "murrine-panel"
widget "*fast-user-switch*" style "murrine-panel" # Workaround for Fast User Switch applet
class "PanelApp*" style "murrine-panel"
class "PanelToplevel*" style "murrine-panel"
#The panel menubar
widget_class "*Panel*<GtkMenuBar>*" style:highest "murrine-panel"
# The window of the tooltip is called "gtk-tooltip"
widget "gtk-tooltip*" style "murrine-tooltips"
# Special cases and work arounds
# Fixes toolbars inside frames. Will be overridden later.
style "murrine-toolbar-flat" = "murrine-default"
xthickness = 3
ythickness = 3
engine "murrine"
toolbarstyle = 0
widget_class "*.*.*.*.*.*Toolbar*" style "murrine-toolbar-flat"
widget_class "*.*.*.*.*.*HandleBox*" style "murrine-toolbar-flat"
#Undo for Epiphany (FIXME find a better way to do this)
#widget_class "*EphyToolbar*" style "pixmap-toolbar"
#widget_class "*EphyToolbar*.*.*.*" style "murrine-toolbar"
# Workarounds for Evolution
widget_class "*.ETable.ECanvas" style "murrine-treeview-header"
widget_class "*.ETree.ECanvas" style "murrine-treeview-header"
#Firefox isn't nice to dark themes, so unset the dark stuff.
#widget "MozillaGtkWidget*Toolbar*" style "murrine-default"
#widget "MozillaGtkWidget*Frame*" style "murrine-default"
#Thunderbird too. But since Thunderbird uses the same theming engine as FF2, things are worse for us.
# Special case the nautilus-extra-view-widget
# ToDo: A more generic approach for all applications that have a widget like this.
widget "*.nautilus-extra-view-widget" style : highest "murrine-nautilus-location"
# Work around for http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382646
style "murrine-text-is-fg-color-workaround"
text[NORMAL] = @fg_color
text[PRELIGHT] = @fg_color
text[SELECTED] = @selected_fg_color
text[ACTIVE] = @fg_color
text[INSENSITIVE] = darker (@bg_color)
widget_class "*.<GtkComboBox>.<GtkCellView>" style "murrine-text-is-fg-color-workaround"
style "murrine-text-is-fg-color-workaround-dark"
#Make it work with this theme!
text[NORMAL] = mix (1.5, @fg_color, '#ffffff')
text[PRELIGHT] = mix (1.4, @fg_color, '#ffffff')
widget_class "*Toolbar*.<GtkComboBox>.<GtkCellView>" style "murrine-text-is-fg-color-workaround-dark"
style "murrine-menuitem-text-is-fg-color-workaround"
#text[NORMAL] = @fg_color
#text[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color
#text[SELECTED] = @selected_fg_color
#text[ACTIVE] = @fg_color
#text[INSENSITIVE] = darker (@bg_color)
#Make it work with this theme!
text[NORMAL] = mix (1.5, @fg_color, '#ffffff')
text[PRELIGHT] = mix (1.4, @fg_color, '#ffffff')
widget "*.gtk-combobox-popup-menu.*" style "murrine-menuitem-text-is-fg-color-workaround"
# Work around the usage of GtkLabel inside GtkListItems to display text.
# This breaks because the label is shown on a background that is based on the
# base color set.
style "murrine-fg-is-text-color-workaround"
fg[NORMAL] = @text_color
fg[PRELIGHT] = @text_color
fg[ACTIVE] = @selected_fg_color
fg[SELECTED] = @selected_fg_color
fg[INSENSITIVE] = darker (@bg_color)
widget_class "*<GtkListItem>*" style "murrine-fg-is-text-color-workaround"
# The same problem also exists for GtkCList and GtkCTree
# Only match GtkCList and not the parent widgets, because that would also change the headers.
widget_class "*<GtkCList>" style "murrine-fg-is-text-color-workaround"
#Rhythmbox toolbar near the search entry. Use default + wide so that it doesn't turn dark.
style "murrine-rhythmbox-header" = "murrine-default"
xthickness = 3
ythickness = 3
engine "murrine" {
widget "*RBSourceHeader*" style:highest "murrine-rhythmbox-header"
widget "*HeaderToolbar*" style:highest "murrine-rhythmbox-header"
widget "*FooterToolbar*" style:highest "murrine-rhythmbox-header"
widget "*swt*toolbar*" style "murrine-default"
#Evolution toolbar
style "murrine-evo-new-button-workaround" = "murrine-dark"
engine "murrine"
toolbarstyle = 0
widget_class "EShellWindow.GtkVBox.BonoboDock.BonoboDockBand.BonoboDockItem*" style "murrine-evo-new-button-workaround"
# RSC: Fix for CPU frequency applet
style "applet-text" = "murrine-panel"
fg[NORMAL] = @bg_color
widget_class "*CPUFreqApplet*" style:highest "applet-text"

Xfce4 Does Not change icon theme

Hi arch community,
I have installed xfce4, Liking it. But when I wanted to change the icons, I wanted to use the Cheser icon theme, so I followed the instuctions here:
http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/appearance
Under the icon section.
I could not change the icon theme, but I could change everything else such as fonts and gtk theme.
Here's what I have tried:
-Deleting ~/.config directory
-Log out, then back in.
-Changing the permissions of ~/.icons to username
-Rebooted
EDIT:
This was somehow solved by a hard reboot,because the logon manager failed to work,I think the cleanup removed/corruped one of the files, then changed my icons!
Call me crazy, but that's how I did it.
Last edited by Ahad12 (2013-08-02 15:29:29)

I am having the exact same problem. It is even worse because it has happened to me in class before.
The other day, after coming to class I opened up my MBP from sleep intending to work on some things for class. As a general practice I hit the mute key as soon as I open the Mac. This always worked well with my Powerbook. However the system did not mute and the connection noises from iChat played out. This upset the teacher who glared at me for the rest of the class.
This is not an isolated incident either. I have had the tool bar and the translucent icon disagree a number of times.
I have found that if I hit the mute key twice it will generally correct the problem. But it is annoying. I hope someone at Apple is listening (in more than one way it would seem)
Macbook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)

[SOLVED] Fluxbox and gtk theme

I have a problem with fluxbox. Some programs using gtk themes (e.g. spacefm, audacious) have ugly grayish 'redmond' look. I have tried to follow this how-to:
http://wiki.fluxbox.org/index.php?title … gtk_themes
and also tried to switch theme with lxapperance and gtk-chtheme. No success. The gtk-chtheme shows a correct theme, so within the preview the theme is fine. However, it won't change the appearance of other windows. Some other programs like firefox or thunderbird change the theme.
I have also tried to compile spacefm with gtk3 support and use adwaita theme. Again I got the ugly look. In other desktop managers, e.g. lxdm both spacefm and audacious look as expected.
Last edited by kmiernik (2013-05-15 11:23:25)

Thanks guys! It must have been something in the .config/gtk-3.0 folder. Once I removed it and created settings.ini like this one:
[Settings]
gtk-theme-name = Adwaita
gtk-icon-theme-name = Tango
gtk-fallback-icon-theme = gnome
gtk-font-name = Sans 8
gtk-auto-mnemonics = 1
gtk-visible-focus = automatic
I can have a normal appearance of gtk3 applications. Interesting thing is that this is exactly the same settings file I have tried before. Probably something else in the folder was overriding the theme.
Last edited by kmiernik (2013-05-15 11:24:06)

Openbox Theme from GTK theme [beta]

Something like this surely exists, here is my version..
Creates an Openbox Theme from your chosen GTK Theme ... ..in 1), 2), 3)...
1) you need to launch your theme changing from a script like this (instead of calling your GTK switcher directly)
#!/bin/bash
# call your gtk theme switcher and as it quits create a matching openbox theme
# command for gtk theme switcher
lxappearance
# path to auto openbox theme generator script
~/bin/auto-openbox-theme
# launch obconf (so you can select the newly made theme)
obconf
exit
2) For that to work you also need this next script in ~/bin/auto-openbox-theme and made executable
#!/bin/bash
# Looks for the current GTK theme and automatically creates a matching Openbox theme
# The script fails on themes not following the Clearlooks convention..
# ..future improvements will account for this - for now the script politely fails on such themes.
# function used to see if script is generating empty results from GTK it can't handle yet
function emptycheck {
if [ -s $myfile ]
then
echo "$myfile has data."
else
echo "$myfile is empty."
xmessage "Sorry this gtk is not handled yet. You should not select the generated Openbox Theme this time."
exit
fi
# main script #
# copy ~/.gtkrc-2.0 to a new file and remove all data except theme name line (!d = don't delete)
sed /gtk-theme-name/!d ~/.gtkrc-2.0 > ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info
# remove string before gtk theme name and return info to this file (-i)
sed -i s/gtk-theme-name=// ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info
# strip off all (/g) speach marks (\") and return info to this file (-i)
sed -i s/\"//g ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info
# place the theme name in a variable
mygtktheme=$(cat ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info)
# copy file called mygtktheme to a new file
sed /gtk_color_scheme/!d ~/.themes/"$mygtktheme"/gtk-2.0/gtkrc > ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info
# strip the line down to just colours
sed -i s/gtk_color_scheme\ =\ \"// ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info
sed -i s/gtk-color-scheme\ =\ \"// ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info
sed -i s/fg_color\:#// ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info
sed -i s/bg_color\:#// ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info
sed -i s/base_color\:#// ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info
sed -i s/text_color\:#// ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info
sed -i s/selected_bg_color\:#// ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info
sed -i s/selected_fg_color\:#// ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info
sed -i s/tooltip_bg_color\:#// ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info
sed -i s/tooltip_fg_color\:#// ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info
sed -i s/\"//g ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info
# force \n to be a true line break so colours on individual lines
sed -i s/\n/\\n/g ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info
sed -i 's/\\//g' ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info
# store some colours for use in Openbox theme
# don't delete (!d) line number n and place it in a text file colournX
# where X is used later to aid production of Openbox theme
sed '1!d' ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info > /tmp/colour1V
sed '2!d' ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info > /tmp/colour2W
sed '3!d' ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info > /tmp/colour3X
sed '4!d' ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info > /tmp/colour4Y
sed '5!d' ~/.gtk-match-openbox-info > /tmp/colour5Z
# check if we have empty data from unhandled GTK themes
myfile="/tmp/colour1V"
emptycheck
myfile="/tmp/colour2W"
emptycheck
myfile="/tmp/colour3X"
emptycheck
myfile="/tmp/colour4Y"
emptycheck
myfile="/tmp/colour5Z"
emptycheck
# hold the above in varibles
myV=$(cat /tmp/colour1V)
myW=$(cat /tmp/colour2W)
myX=$(cat /tmp/colour3X)
myY=$(cat /tmp/colour4Y)
myZ=$(cat /tmp/colour5Z)
# make Openbox theme by replacing VWXYZ in template with colours
sed s/VVVVVV/$myV/g ~/.themes/obthemetemplate/openbox-3/TEMPLATE > /tmp/obtheme
sed -i s/WWWWWW/$myW/g /tmp/obtheme
sed -i s/XXXXXX/$myX/g /tmp/obtheme
sed -i s/YYYYYY/$myY/g /tmp/obtheme
sed s/ZZZZZZ/$myZ/g /tmp/obtheme > ~/.themes/obthemetemplate/openbox-3/themerc
# update rc.xml
#urxvt -e /usr/bin/obconf
3) AND you need this folder in your ~/.themes/ folder - download it, extract and copy to ~/.themes
4) (optional but welcome) Post your fails, post your abusive and constructive criticism, and post your "hey why don't you use this 5million times better version here?"'s
thanks, bye

Works fine here. Thanks for the script, it's quite handy and I got at last a nice OB theme witch fits with the murrina chrome gtk theme

GDM forgets about which GTK+ theme to use

I can choose a GTK+ theme in GDM, but it doesn't seem to save that setting. Can anybody confirm that and maybe even give a workaround?

I seem to suffer from the same problem.
This is the gui section in /opt/gnome/share/gdm/defaults.conf
[gui]
# The specific gtkrc file we use. It should be the full path to the gtkrc that
# we need. Unless you need a specific gtkrc that doesn't correspond to a
# specific theme, then just use the GtkTheme key.
GtkRC=/usr/share/themes/Candido-gPerfect/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
# The GTK+ theme to use for the GUI.
#GtkTheme=Default
# If to allow changing the GTK+ (widget) theme from the greeter. Currently
# this only affects the standard greeter as the graphical greeter does not yet
# have this ability.
#AllowGtkThemeChange=true
# Comma separated list of themes to allow. These must be the names of the
# themes installed in the standard locations for gtk themes. You can also
# specify 'all' to allow all installed themes. These should be just the
# basenames of the themes such as 'Thinice' or 'LowContrast'.
#GtkThemesToAllow=all
I couldn't get it to work by uncommenting GtkTheme, AllowGtkThemeChange and GtkThemesToAllow, so i went the easy route and just added a gtkrc file in 'GtkRC=' as you can see.
Just pick one.
find /usr/share/themes/ -iname gtkrc

Use a gtk theme for one app and another for the whole system??

I would like to know if is it possible to use a theme for one application and use another for the remaining of the system? I use OpenBox and I change themes with Lxappearance...
Thanks,

Uhh, thanks mauryck for the question and anonymous_user for the answer! I use a very slow gtk theme, and one program suffer from it, but this theme is so beautiful so I dont like to change. Never though about this solution, use a different theme only for this program!
Sometimes the solution is so simple...

[Gnome 3] Change GDM theme

There was already a discussion about changing the background. Here I mean not the background, but GTK theme (like Adwaita). I tried to launch gnome-tweak-tool under gdm user (Gnome#GDM_Customization in the Wiki), but no GTK applications start there (I get "Could not open display :0" message).
Is there any way to set the theme via gsettings or any other "console" way? I guess gnome-tweak-tool itself works by modifying dconf, but I could not find dconf registry key where GTK theme is specified (seems that dconf-editor does not yet have search functionality).

isn't that background changing enough? you simple have to change other options
gsetting set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme yourtheme
gsetting set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme yourtheme
you only have to add your theme globally or in gdm directory, /var/lib/gdm
Last edited by wonder (2011-06-02 09:02:41)

Lxapperance fails to change GTK+ theme [WORKAROUND]

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