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Crocodeele

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Registered: 2017-10-22

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[SOLVED]Can't use some gtk2 themes.

When I try to set my theme with lxappearance or gtk-chtheme some themes (Arch, Adwaita and BlackMATE) work, but some themes like ThinIce, Flatabulous-wal and Crux don't. I'm using nautilus and chromium to check if they work. Changing the themes in lxappearance or gtk-chtheme does not yield any warnings or issues even when the theme doesn't work. I have added "export GTK2_RC_FILES="$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0"" to my .xinitrc. Here is my .gtkrc-2.0 and I don't have a .gtkrc-2.0.mine in my home folder. I store all of my themes in /usr/share/themes/ and I've noticed that the themes which don't work don't have a gtk-3.0 folder in them, which may or may not be related to the problem. Would be very grateful if somebody helped me to fix this because I've spent a bad amount of time trying to fix this.

Last edited by Crocodeele (2017-10-22 11:56:39)

Slithery

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Re: [SOLVED]Can't use some gtk2 themes.

Welcome to the forums Crocodeele

Of course nautilus and chromium won't look any different, they are both GTK3 applications.

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Crocodeele

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Registered: 2017-10-22

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Re: [SOLVED]Can't use some gtk2 themes.

Sorry, didn't know that... Is there any way I can convert gtk2 themes to gtk3? Flatabulous-wal only works with gtk2...