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superuser

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Registered: 2015-02-12

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theme changes don´t take effect

Hi,
I recently wondered why the theme of my LXDE installations doesn´t really look good:
http://upload.worldofplayers.de/files10/lxde.jpg
Particulary, Midori is rather ugly:
However, other screenshots of LXDE proove that it can look much better:
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/images/1 … t_LXDE.png
Sometimes Midori looks really nice, for instance in this screenshot:
http://midori-browser.org/images/screen … ressed.png
In order to change the appearance, I´ve already installed gtk-engines. Now I have several themes like Clearlooks at choice in LXAppearance. Unfortunately, clicking the apply-button doesn´t affect the appearance, neither the preview window.
What´s going wrong?

Please excuse linguistic mistakes, i´m from Germany.

Thanks!
superuser

Last edited by superuser (2015-04-13 19:52:05)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 7,749

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Re: theme changes don´t take effect

How are you starting LXDE?

Post any appropriate configurations files (.xinitrc, display manger .conf, etc).

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superuser

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Registered: 2015-02-12

Posts: 6

Re: theme changes don´t take effect

.xinitrc:

exex startlxde

lightdm.conf (I removed the unused lines):

[LightDM]
minimum-vt=1
run-directory=/run/lightdm
greeter-session = lightdm-gtk3-greeter
display-setup-script = /usr/bin/lightdmxrandr

[SeatDefaults]
session-wrapper=/etc/lightdm/Xsession
display-setup-script =/usr/bin/lightdmxrandr

users.conf:

[UserList]
minimum-uid=1000
hidden-users=nobody nobody4 noaccess
hidden-shells=/bin/false /usr/bin/nologin

Besides, I forgot to mention that I´m using a virtual machine, namely VMWare Player.
As you may have seen, the font is rather hard to read in Midori.
What is also remarkable is that the system reacts often very sluggishly, especially when clicking the LXDE button or marking text.

Last edited by superuser (2015-04-13 20:47:44)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: theme changes don´t take effect

I've never used Arch in a VM so I don't know how that would change things.

Try activating the dbus session by adding this to the top of ~/.xinitrc (before "exec startlxde"):

#!/bin/sh
if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
  for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?*; do
    [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
  done
  unset f
fi

I also don't use a display manager so I don't know if lightdm starts this itself...

If that doesn't help, post the output of:

systemctl --user status

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superuser

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Registered: 2015-02-12

Posts: 6

Re: theme changes don´t take effect

Unfortunately, it didn´t help. Here´s the output:

● [username]
    State: running
     Jobs: 0 queued
   Failed: 0 units
    Since: Di 2015-04-14 02:05:23 CEST; 1min 56s ago
   CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service
           ├─253 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user
           └─254 (sd-pam)  

I also just saw that the time is wrong, but that´s another problem I try to solve by myself.