[solved] Fluxbox + LXappearance gtk theme not changing in certain prog

I'm using fluxbox with LXappearance, which is working great, except that gedit and empathy don't change their gtk theme. All the other programs on my computer do change to the theme I pick in LXappearance. Does anyone know if there is a reason for this? (maybe its gnome or ubuntu related?)
Its not a huge deal, but the behavior is sorta weird. I don't get any error messages or anything either.
Last edited by Meskarune (2011-05-13 12:11:53)

Those programs appear to be set to use GTK 3 themes now, which seem not to be compatible with GTK 2 themes (and vice-versa). I had the same problem, so had to specify a theme in .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini but of course it's still not a match for the apps that use the GTK 2 theme instead.

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[SOLVED]Oh-my-zsh themes not loading

[ edit]
So the solution was to remove the grml-zsh-config package, and reboot(sourcing the .zshrc for some reason didn't make any difference).
[/ edit ]
Hello,
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Last edited by jantonio2992 (2014-05-31 21:28:41)

First of all, thank you for helping me.
Trilby wrote:
jantonio2992 wrote:I don't know if this is the best section to post this question
I've moved this here to Applications & Desktop Evironments as it seems a better fit as it is about configuration.
Thank you,
Trilby wrote:On topic, I don't use zsh, but two basic checks may be in order: 1) what are the ownership and permissions of the config file on the machine it doesn't work on (`ls -l <filename>`) and 2) do you have the exact same version of oh-my-zsh on each machine and/or are you using the aur package for it?
1) lrwxrwxrwx 1 joseph joseph , so i bet that permissions shouldn't be a problem no?
2) Yes, i have same version, i even installed the package again to make sure both had last version.
ANOKNUSA wrote:
Jantonio2992 wrote:I have two machines that I'm using currently, each with a git repository where i keep track of my stuff(mainly config files), and i share them between the machines.
Since you admit that you want the same configuration on each machine, why don't you just replace the broken configuration with the working one?
I did, Each machine has a normal git repository(git init) and a bare(git init --bare), then i set bare repository as "backupl" on the same machine and as "backup" on the other machine, this is how i share them , so they are basically the same. Still on one(the netbook) the prompt shows as <username>@<hostname> and on my main tower(x64 arch, if that helps) it shows as it should with the theme. So to answer to your sugestion, i did replace them still with no result.
ANOKNUSA wrote:
thiagowfx wrote:Check whether the folder /usr/share/oh-my-zsh/themes exist in your other machine, and that your chosen theme is present there.
For posterity, note that this would only apply if it was installed from the AUR. If one just cloned the Git repo (which would be preferable if the user wants to make any changes) the config will be in ~/.oh-my-zsh.
Yes it was installed from AUR, if i have to install some package not from officials i usually install from AUR.
thiagowfx wrote:
Check whether the folder /usr/share/oh-my-zsh/themes exist in your other machine, and that your chosen theme is present there.
Also, you might try adding
set -x
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Since both were installed from AUR they both have the folder themes.
About the set -x , it did it. Thank you very much. When i did that, i compared the differences of the output as you said i should and the netbook one fave a lot more info, so further inspection, on the output said something about "gmrl" something, and i remembered i had installed the grml-zsh-config because it was the config i used to use before i started using git, since i prefer how the oh-my-zsh themes look.
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stqn wrote:I don't think so. All posts about this on this forum point to installing a Gtk3 theme.
Gah. That sucks. I really like the Crux theme... wonder if I can make or find a port of it... Might look at that when I get back to town... I just symlinked Adwaita's gtk-3.0 into my ~/.config for now.
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Last edited by beta990 (2014-01-13 21:58:18)

Thanks for posts!
I have done all the steps, but real key was to reboot the system! Even pkill X didn't work. It's now solved.
To give users with the same issue a solution:
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- Be sure that gtk3.0/settings.ini has fallback and icon-theme the same value (not know if it really needed)
- Reboot! pkill X didn't work for me.
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