Themes with CDE/Motif ?

Hi there,
concerning: Swing GUI.
I like to use the CDE/Motif LnF, but have to customize the color settings in our application.
Without changes, the default background is a nasty grey, the frame color is an ugly violett ...
Now, I know there is a themes mechanism, but AFAIK only for the Metal LnF.
Does anybody how to change these application wide color resources without setting the color properties for every single JComponent ?

Thank you for the reply,
maybe I have to give some more explanation of what I want to do:
Say, I have 15 components (Buttons, Labels, CheckBoxes ...). Now, when I display them within a container using the CDE/Motif LnF, they all come up with a particular default background color, in my case grey. I like to set one single property somewhere to change the background color for all the components at once. I think this is the purpose of the Theme concept available for the Metal LnF. But I couldn't find anything like themes for CDE/Motif. Is there any other way to achieve the same effect without having to use Themes, or do Themes exist for CDE/Motif, for example as extension to Java Swing ?
Thank you for help
AE

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