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smartboyathome

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I can't change the GTK theme except as root?

I thought this would be the most appropriate place to post this, redirect me if I am wrong.

This is a problem which has rolled over from Ubuntu. I can't change my GTK theme unless I run it as root with gksu. When I try  running gtk-chtheme as a normal user it segfaults, and when I try to change the theme in GNOME, it freezes. Would someone be able to help me get this sorted out?  Thanks.

jarryson

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Re: I can't change the GTK theme except as root?

sudo cp ~/.themes/* /root/.themes/

or

sudo cp ~/.themes/* /usr/share/themes/

because root cant find themes that just install in your user's themes paths

so copy the theme you use to the system path or root path will solve this problem

smartboyathome

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Re: I can't change the GTK theme except as root?

Thanks, I just symlinked my .themes and .icons directories to /usr/share/themes and /usr/share/icons, respectively, and chowned the folders so that I can use the themes from both. Should that take care of the problem?