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Shaddar

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Registered: 2014-12-29

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[SOLVED] Gtk2 applications don't use gtk theme

Hello together,

I have a problem with the gtk2 theme and I already searched a lot but didn't get an answer to my problem.
When I choose any other gtk theme than Adwaita all gtk2 applications looks ugly. Like this: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-EPu6 … %C2%AB.png

When I run the apps from the terminal there's no message for a missing engine. Also the gtkrc file tell me what the "pixmap" engine is required. I've installed the gtk-engines packagekit and have a libpixmap.so file under /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/ but it's still not working. Then I found this threads here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=171050.

First there was no output for `env | grep GTK` so I set `export GTK2_RC_FILES=$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0`
But there was no .gtkrc-2.0 file in my home directory. I created this file manually and it looks like this:

gtk-icon-theme-name = "Faience"
gtk-theme-name = "Ceti-3.14"

But it still doesn't work. Help please.

Last edited by Shaddar (2014-12-29 23:04:12)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Gtk2 applications don't use gtk theme

When I choose any other gtk theme...

First there was no output for `env | grep GTK` so I set `export GTK2_RC_FILES=$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0`
But there was no .gtkrc-2.0 file in my home directory. I created this file manually and it looks like this

Then what do you mean you chose another gtk theme?  How did you do this?  What tool did you use?

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Shaddar

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Registered: 2014-12-29

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Re: [SOLVED] Gtk2 applications don't use gtk theme

Sorry, I use the gnome-tweak tool to set the icons and themes.

Trilby

Inspector Parrot

Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: [SOLVED] Gtk2 applications don't use gtk theme

That's the problem.  The package description for that says "A tool to customize advanced GNOME 3 options".  It does not customize or set themes for gtk2 applications.  See here for tools that help configure gtk2 themes.

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Shaddar

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Registered: 2014-12-29

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Re: [SOLVED] Gtk2 applications don't use gtk theme

I set up the .gtkrc-2.0 file as I mentioned before. But now I changed one line.

From:
gtk-theme-name = "Ceti-3.14"

To:
include "/home/shaddar/.local/share/themes/Ceti-3.14/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

And now it works. Thanks for the help. Do you know if there is a way that the gtk2 theme is always the same as the gtk3 theme or is there a way to set both gtk2 and gtk3 theme from one place ?