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danboy85

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Registered: 2010-06-09

Posts: 2

Getting gnome themes/styles to work properly in openbox

Hi first this is my first post here and I'd like to express how awesome Arch is. I've long battled with toing and throwing between various distros and Windows but I think that will stop with Arch. It just 'feels' right for me . Now onto my issue.

I've installed Openbox via the beginners wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … de#Openbox) and am also running thunar. My question is this, how do I get gnome themes to display correctly in my applications including thunar. I've installed the following theme (http://box-look.org/content/show.php/Mu … tent=66198) as I thought this particular setup looked nice http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/8910/screen220323.jpg. But thats all I get after selecting the theme in obconf is nastly looking WIndows 95esqe looking windows and menus with ridgid boring styles. Do I have to install gnome first and then install openbox as I don't want all the crap that a gnome installation would dump onto my system.

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: Getting gnome themes/styles to work properly in openbox

You use obconf to change the Openbox theme (just the window borders). To change the GTK theme you can use lxappearance or a few other tools:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GTK%2B#GTK.2B_2.x

Last edited by anonymous_user (2010-06-09 22:03:13)

danboy85

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Registered: 2010-06-09

Posts: 2

Re: Getting gnome themes/styles to work properly in openbox

Ah ha, thank you. That seems to have done the trick. Even though I had already installed many of those things there must have been something missing as it's working now. Thanks again.

Last edited by danboy85 (2010-06-09 22:55:32)