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sbfreak

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Registered: 2010-06-06

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Make gtk3 applications look nice on xfce4

Gtk3 apps have the windows 98 look on my fresh xfce4 install.
In order to change the looks of qt apps I use qtconfig.
What do I do in order to make gtk3 apps look nice because gnome-tweak-tool doesn't work.

[root@sb1r3ak-desktop sb1r3ak]# gksu gnome-tweak-tool
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GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error == NULL)
Aborted

ngoonee

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Re: Make gtk3 applications look nice on xfce4

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=116451

And why are you running as root at all? It may or may not be causing your errors, but in general you'll get problems from that eventually.

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Grinch

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Registered: 2010-11-07

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Re: Make gtk3 applications look nice on xfce4

Do you have the necessary packages? I believe you need gnome-themes-standard (from testing).

wonder

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Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: Make gtk3 applications look nice on xfce4

you don't need to start gnome-tweak-tool as root. also i think that would crash if schemas are undefined.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647132

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Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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Re: Make gtk3 applications look nice on xfce4

He uses gksu while having a line like "root@*#". What's above root that could be reached with gksu?

wonder

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Re: Make gtk3 applications look nice on xfce4

@Awebb yeah, i didn't want to make fun of that

root in root, is like Inception

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sbfreak

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Registered: 2010-06-06

Posts: 149

Re: Make gtk3 applications look nice on xfce4

@Awebb yeah, i didn't want to make fun of that

root in root, is like Inception

We need to go deeper

I had two terminals open.I tried gnome-tweak-tool in the first one and the other one with su.After that I was supposed to try with gksu in the first term not the second one with su /facepalm.
Thanks to the following post
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=116451
I have all the needed info now just one thing.What's the name of the elementary theme?( using egtk-bzr from AUR)
I tried elementary,egtk,egtk-bzr ..