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meschael

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Registered: 2014-06-22

Posts: 26

XFCE4 theme not themeing window controls, with xfwm4

I installed xfce4 xfwm4 and slim folowed by installing axiomd theme to my ~.themes folder, it has the structure /home/bb/.themes/axiomd/xfwm4 and in terminal if I enter xfwm4 I get xfwm4-Message: Another Window Manager (Xfwm4) is already running on screen :0.0 which indicates to me that xfwm4 is running however my window controls (the maximize, minimize, close) buttons are not themed dispite selecting the theme from gksudo xfce4-appearance-settings

Im not sure why everything else is themed except for the window controls.  Can someone please help me figure this out?

toz

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Registered: 2011-10-28

Posts: 513

Re: XFCE4 theme not themeing window controls, with xfwm4

...dispite selecting the theme from gksudo xfce4-appearance-settings

Don't use gksudo. Themes are profile-specific. And if you want to change the window settings, change them in

xfwm4-settings

meschael

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Registered: 2014-06-22

Posts: 26

Re: XFCE4 theme not themeing window controls, with xfwm4

Thanks, I just went to xfwm4-settings from my whisker menu and clicked another theme, then re clicked axiomd and I still don't get the fancy close, minimize, restore buttons I was expecting.

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I just discovered that I needed to not only select the theme inside xfce4-appearance-settings but also in settings > window manager.  This fixed the problem.

Last edited by meschael (2014-09-20 00:09:38)