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Hazuki

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From: Madison, WI

Registered: 2008-01-09

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LXQt Needs Themes!

I really like how LXQt is shaping up, but it suffers from a serious lack of available themes (and needs LXAppearance-OBConf integrated into its control panel but that's another matter).

The thing is, the .qss format is really, really powerful. You can, in particular, do gradients with arbitrary numbers of colors/steps and many widgets support transparency. Putting all this together, i spent a couple of hours hacking up a vaguely WinVista-ish (but nicer!) theme for it, which I think looks good It's called Aerophilia, after one of my very first IceWM themes that had similar intent.

https://i.imgur.com/YTIQgrq.jpg

Do you think there's a chance the project can use this, given how...well, imitative of a certain-company-which-shall-not-be-named's product this is? I can probably do a Luna-alike, and definitely a Win9x-alike, with this too.

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AbaddonOrmuz

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Registered: 2014-07-05

Posts: 43

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Re: LXQt Needs Themes!

Yeah, it really needs more variety of styles.

I don't know if they would add it in their main repo, I doubt it, but you can be sure by asking them directly.

There was a discussion where they talked about this:

- http://lxqt.org/irc/lxqt-irc-meeting-2015-11-21.log

PS: You can install obconf-qt to configure Openbox, it will be added in the LXQt Configuration Center and application menu.

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fluxboxer

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Registered: 2012-12-02

Posts: 118

Re: LXQt Needs Themes!

The great qt5ct is the best option, it is in fact indispensable for a Qt5 system.

You can set the widget/engine (Fusion, QtCurve, Kvantum etc.).

You can very easily customise almost every colour of the theme (and you can further customise it by editing ~/.config/qtcurve/stylerc or by using Kvantum Manager).

You can very easily create colour scheme presets.

You can create qss' and enable/disable them.

You can set fonts and icon theme and other interface elements like activation on single-click etc.

I colourise my whole Fluxbox system by qt5ct. I use sed commands put in Fluxbox keys file to apply qt5ct colours to Fluxbox style and (Adwaita) ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css.