[SOLVED] lxappearance issue

newarch2011 · 2011-09-20 22:45:01

for some reason on a new install i tried to copy some themes over to my arch system and when i go to change it the themes are recognized. nothign changes. i recall someone having a similar issue but there was no post on how they fixed it. i installed gtk2 and 3 and still nothing. what else am i missing?

Last edited by newarch2011 (2011-09-24 02:29:51)

anonymous_user · 2011-09-21 02:24:53

Which DE or WM are you using? What themes are you trying to switch to?

newarch2011 · 2011-09-21 16:28:22

lxde and i want to use awdiata or clearlooks. it is not the openbox theme which is onyx but using lxappearance.

ethail · 2011-09-21 16:54:47

Those are GTK3 themes, I'm not sure if lxde uses gtk3, but I think you should try with gtk2 themes.

nbvcxz · 2011-09-21 19:25:57

LXDE uses GTK2, but hope soon it can be 'ported' GTK3 (btw. some programs are already able to compile with GTK3). You can have nice Adwaita look (see my screens: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 7#p993237). In fact much more better for GTK2 is Aldabra theme (from AUR). But lxappearance seems to be screwed. So - to set properly GTK2 theme use lxappearance than set it again with eg. gtk-chtheme. To have the theme compatibile with qt programs: add to ~/.gtkrc-2.0 the line with: gtk-theme-name="Aldabra" and create file /etc/profile.d/gtk2.sh with: export GTK2_RC_FILES="$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0"

newarch2011 · 2011-09-21 21:15:41

this is weird because i have a vm using lxde as well and the themes are fine.

Larsson · 2011-09-22 05:05:13

Having all the packages end theme engines installed, lxappearance should be able to manage the themes (halfways anyway). For me it creates a gtk3 folder in your home-directory that you need to move to your ~/.config. Then you need to edit the file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini and remove all include lines (and perhaps some more depending what you see if you launch the gtk3 application from a terminal). Also you need to remove all "" around the themes else they are not recognized.

That is: gtk-icon-theme-name="Faenza-Cupertino" is wrong and gtk-icon-theme-name=Faenza-Cupertino is correct.

newarch2011 · 2011-09-24 01:59:52

do i need to manually create that folder it seems to not be doing so and i cant change any appearances with lxappearance still. i even installed both gtk2 and gtk3. this works fine in my vm but i am not sure what i did.

newarch2011 · 2011-09-24 02:29:39

issue fixed when i installed gtk-engines via pacman.

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#1 2011-09-20 22:45:01

[SOLVED] lxappearance issue

#2 2011-09-21 02:24:53

Re: [SOLVED] lxappearance issue

#3 2011-09-21 16:28:22

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#4 2011-09-21 16:54:47

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#5 2011-09-21 19:25:57

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#6 2011-09-21 21:15:41

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#7 2011-09-22 05:05:13

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#8 2011-09-24 01:59:52

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#9 2011-09-24 02:29:39

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