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I want to make my applications look a bit similar. So I installed 'clearwaita-gtk-theme' from aur. Its basically a theme for Gtk2 and Gtk3 which looks the same. On my old laptop it works perfectly, but on my new computer only some application use the themes. (The configs are correct, I copied them from the working laptop)
I made my QT applications use the GTK2 themes - and they do so. Nautilus is using its GTK3 theme. So far so good. But when i try chromium it does not use the theme as well as thunderbird.
Does anyone have an idea what could be the problem?
Thanks.
Last edited by klump (2012-03-17 14:09:15)
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Some applications simply don't use the "usual" graphical toolkits, but their own. Chromium, LibreOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird are classical examples of this. While Firefox's and LibreOffice's integration with GTK is nowadays more than decent, you'll have to install [or create yourself] a specific theme for Chromium. I can't tell about Thunderbird as I don't use it.
In Chromium, if you choose "Preferences → personal preferences → use GTK theme", you might get a good result either way, so try it if you still haven't.
Last edited by olorian (2012-03-17 11:56:04)
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Maybe you are right, when I try the "use GTK theme" option, it gets really ugly. And Thunderbird ain't pretty either. But on my other laptop everything looks beautiful. I have actually no idea why, all the config files are the same and I installed almost the same packages on both machines. Its just one works and is beautiful, and the other one just ugly ^^
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Ok, found my problem:
I needed to set the $GTK2_RC_FILES variable for the GTK2 applications to find the configuration file. I did this but i did it wrong...
My try was:
export GTK2_RC_FILES="~/.gtkrc-2.0"
but it has to be:
export GTK2_RC_FILES="$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0"
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