[SOLVED] Installing and changing GTK themes from within PekWM

wbeyda · 2010-01-20 15:50:42

I really want to get away from GNOME and KDE. Been running PekWM and BMPanel2 for about a week now. I absolutely love it! But when I use a new PekWM theme it only changes the chrome of windows does not change the actual content inside windows. So I have to log out log into gnome install the a GTK theme then log back into PekWM and change my theme with gtk-chtheme which isn't too much of a problem. But I wish I could just install GTK themes from PekWM. I tried untaring the tarballs to ~/.themes but they never display in gtk-chtheme when I do this. So now I'm thinking that the GTK themes aren't being installed there. So my question is can I manually install themes? and if so where?

Last edited by wbeyda (2010-01-21 00:29:57)

anonymous_user · 2010-01-20 16:17:11

Installing themes in ~/.themes works fine for me. I would check that the folder structure is correct though:

~/.themes/themename/gtk-2.0/

wbeyda · 2010-01-20 16:24:57

Yeah I have Clearlooks and other terrible looking gnome themes installed and they are not in my ~/.themes directory so I'm thinking there are being installed elsewhere. Any ideas where?

reed9 · 2010-01-20 17:25:14

Themes installed via the package manager are usually in /usr/share/themes/ and are accessible system wide.

Individual user themes go in ~/.themes.

I use pekwm and lxappearance to change themes and fonts.

EDIT: My mistake. System wide pekwm themes are in /usr/share/pekwm/themes

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reed9 · 2010-01-20 17:26:01

Oh, and check out the pekwm-themes package on the AUR.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21416

na12 · 2010-01-20 18:06:07

Use lxappearance to change theme,and you must see what is in the tarball if you download theme from gnome-look.org or similar sites.Lxappearnce looking for ~/.themes/themename/gtk-2.0/gtkrc respectively.If you have ~/.themes/themename/another folder/gtk-2.0/gtkrc,theme won't be shown in lxappearance.

wbeyda · 2010-01-20 18:19:27

reed9 wrote:

Themes installed via the package manager are usually in /usr/share/themes/ and are accessible system wide.

I will check in the /usr/share/themes. That maybe where my GTK themes are being installed from a GNOME session. And might be the reason why they are not accessible through a ~/.themes in a PekWM session.

Dusty · 2010-01-20 18:26:24

pekwm themes are for window decorators; pekwm does not theme, nor care about the themes of the contents; that's handled by gtk directly.

I usually use switch2 (pacman -S gtk-theme-switch2) to handle the gtk side of things... is that what you're looking for?

Apparently community also has a gtk-chtheme package that does the same thing; you might wanna check it out.

Dusty

wbeyda · 2010-01-20 20:19:09

If you read the initial post you would see that yes this is a GTK issue not PekWM and I use gtk-chtheme for the switcher but have to login to a gnome session to INSTALL new GTK themes.

Dusty · 2010-01-20 20:30:10

I apologize, I was reading two posts at once and didn't pay enough attention to either of them. Tabbed browsing is the bane of my existence.

wbeyda · 2010-01-21 00:28:20

wbeyda wrote:

reed9 wrote:
Themes installed via the package manager are usually in /usr/share/themes/ and are accessible system wide.
I will check in the /usr/share/themes. That maybe where my GTK themes are being installed from a GNOME session. And might be the reason why they are not accessible through a ~/.themes in a PekWM session.

This solved it. When installing GTK themes from http://www.gnome-look.org and from any other non AUR source a package can be un-tarred in /usr/share/themes/ to INSTALL the GTK theme and gtk-chtheme can be used to switch GTK themes during a PekWM session. Because PekWM does not change the contents of windows just the chrome.

na12 · 2010-01-21 08:54:35

Not necessary,i un-tarring it in ~/.themes,and everything works fine,i can change theme with lxappearance.

sand_man · 2010-01-21 09:08:57

If gnome-settings-daemon is being started then it will override whatever lxappearance does.

na12 · 2010-01-21 11:30:14

why you would did that

Last edited by na12 (2010-01-21 11:33:56)

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