Xfce4-notifyd themes [solved]

I was wondering if anyone knew how to change the theme/look of notifyd, or at least a place to start looking. The most I could find was a faq saying it inheirits it's appearance from the current GTK theme, but that doesn't seem to be correct...
The default in xfce4.4 looked good, but the new one not so much.
They introduced an option to change the theme, but can't find a way to add more (or more to add...), and the defaults are no good (ZOMG-PONIES! is close, but not quite what I'd like ;] )
edit:
Finally, I was able to figure it out, turns out it's simply a gtkrc file under /usr/share/themes/(theme name)/xfce-notify-4.0
now to fool around with these settings to get something less ugly
edit edit: I feel stupid, the readme in the source states this... plus they suggest putting it under $HOME/.themes/THEMENAME/xfce4-notify-4.0 which makes a lot of sense.
Last edited by sctincman (2009-04-20 22:24:57)

No themes up to this time.
A side note regarding this detail.
I have a usb connected HDD with the latest arch kernel also having xfce4 installed. It also has kde installed (all) but not in use.
This xfce4 install has oxygen icons installed in the mouse theme window and enables a large cursor with various icon shapes. The cursor thusly enabled changes orientation as the cursor is placed in a forum listing, say, changes to horizontal vs. vertical as well as changes its shape.
These cursor types are oxygen cursors.
Attempted to generate the oxygen cursors with pacman installs of related oxygen packages to no avail. Gnome-icon-theme is installed and oxygen-gtk2. This applied to the booting Compact Flash devices which fail to provide themes for the cursor.
Still no oxygen cursor themes.
Xfce4 was installed with (all).

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