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schwim

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Problems installing lxappearance widget/themes

Hello there!

I'd like my OB install on my Ubu platform have the same darkmode look that my BL install has.  By that I mean:

The dark look of the main window and toolbar above:

But I've tried moving the yeti directory from bunsen's /usr/share/themes to my ubuntu ~/.share/themes but although it shows in my lxappearance, when I select it, it acts like nothing new was selected and it remains looking like the currently active theme.

Is there something else I need to do to utilize that widget?

Thanks for your time!

Last edited by schwim (2022-06-12 03:19:35)

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sleekmason

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Re: Problems installing lxappearance widget/themes

There are a few things to look at. First, lxappearance does not change themes on the fly on my machine either.  You have to close and reopen thunar (all instances)to see the change.

Need a bit more info. Is this ubuntu xfce4? or?  If xfce4, look in ~/.config/xfce4/xconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xsettings.xml on or about line 5.  This is where the gtk theme is set. Change as required. This can be done on the fly from a terminal using:

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName -s "Lilidog-Slate" 

Change "Lilidog-Slate" for your theme.

Placing the themes in /usr/share/themes will allow for root use as well.
Also make sure gtk-3.0 themes are usable in the distro you are using.

schwim

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From: Coastal VA, Murica

Registered: 2015-09-29

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Re: Problems installing lxappearance widget/themes

There are a few things to look at. First, lxappearance does not change themes on the fly on my machine either.  You have to close and reopen thunar (all instances)to see the change.

It seems to be either that I'm installing an incompatible theme or in a manner that's not working.  The other themes change on the fly, just these two don't, even after a restart.

Need a bit more info. Is this ubuntu xfce4? or?  If xfce4, look in ~/.config/xfce4/xconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xsettings.xml on or about line 5.  This is where the gtk theme is set. Change as required. This can be done on the fly from a terminal using:

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName -s "Lilidog-Slate" 

Change "Lilidog-Slate" for your theme.

Placing the themes in /usr/share/themes will allow for root use as well.
Also make sure gtk-3.0 themes are usable in the distro you are using.

For clarification, this is just an OB install on top of 22.04 server install, so no other DE/WMs, just the normal little bits that get pulled in as dependencies when fleshing out an Openbox install.

I still haven't managed to manually install a theme yet but did find a darkmode in greybird-dark so at this point, I've not solved my root problem but managed to side-step it lol.

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