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trixrabbit

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Registered: 2012-11-27

Posts: 100

lxappearance, can't change color

Hi, I have installed lxappearance and a couple theme packages from official rep. I had lxappearance before when I was using lubuntu and I could change colors, but on my arch setup with openbox standalone, I can't change the colors in lxappearance.

edit: I tried another theme and I was able to change the color but the color doesn't stay and doesn't appear on other windows... can anyone help me with this please, thank you

Last edited by trixrabbit (2013-01-07 13:22:20)

berbae

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 1,302

Re: lxappearance, can't change color

Are you talking about gtk2 or gtk3?

For gtk3, I change the colors in the $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini file:

[Settings]
gtk-theme-name = oxygen-gtk
gtk-color-scheme = "fg_color: #000;bg_color: #F4E6CE;text_color: #000;base_color: #FDFCFA;selected_bg_color: #74B150;selected_fg_color: #FFF;tooltip_bg_color: #AAFAB4;tooltip_fg_color: #000"
gtk-font-name = DejaVu Sans 10

I will post how I do that for gtk2, if it is what you are looking for.

Happy new year!

Last edited by berbae (2013-01-07 16:32:41)

trixrabbit

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Registered: 2012-11-27

Posts: 100

Re: lxappearance, can't change color

I'm not sure ...I'm still pretty new and I have trouble to make the difference between the 2, I have both folders gtk2 and gtk3 so I don't know what I'm using ..

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: lxappearance, can't change color

Do you have a GTK2_RC_FILES environment variable?

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berbae

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 1,302

Re: lxappearance, can't change color

If you are speaking of the openbox color theme you've selected, they are hard coded in the themerc file of the theme.

You need the lxappearance-obconf package to configure openbox with lxappearance.
Or you can create another theme from a copy of the selected theme, and edit the colors manually in the themerc file.

For other gtk applis you may use, it depends on the appli:
firefox uses gtk2
nautilus uses gtk3.

chuchuqa

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Registered: 2012-10-30

Posts: 31

Re: lxappearance, can't change color

I don't know why but color settings from .gtkrc does not apply to theme, unless you use pure lxde...

I just did these steps (to Zukitwo):
1. Save your desired color settings in lxappearance.
2. Copy the entire "gtk-color-scheme="tooltip_fg_color:#000000\nlink_color:#08c\nbase_color:#F7F7F7\nselected_fg_color:#f5f5f5\ntext_color:#2c2c2c\nbg_color_dark:#383838\ntext_color_dark:#FFF\nbg_color:#cccccccccccc\ntooltip_bg_color:#df1bdf1bdf1b\nselected_bg_color:#999999999999\nfg_color:#2c2c2c\n"" from the bottom of ~/.gtkrc.
3. In /usr/share/themes/Zukitwo/gtk-3.0/settings.ini replace the settings with yours.
4. In /usr/share/themes/Zukitwo/gtk-2.0/gtkrc comment all the gtk_color_scheme lines and paste your settings, replace gtk-color-scheme with  gtk_color_scheme !

That's it!