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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)
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Installing themes in ~/.themes works fine for me. I would check that the folder structure is correct though:
~/.themes/themename/gtk-2.0/
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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?
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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
Last edited by reed9 (2010-01-20 17:29:46)
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Oh, and check out the pekwm-themes package on the AUR.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21416
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Not necessary,i un-tarring it in ~/.themes,and everything works fine,i can change theme with lxappearance.
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If gnome-settings-daemon is being started then it will override whatever lxappearance does.
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why you would did that
Last edited by na12 (2010-01-21 11:33:56)
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