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Making Dolphin instances launched by Chrome or Firefox follow the QT theme set elsewhere, in Openbox, possibly other non-KDE environments

Posted 03-05-2021 at 12:46 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 03-07-2021 at 06:28 PM by the dsc

I had this issue, if I clicked to open a folder for a downloaded file on Chrome, the Dolphin file manager launched would be somewhat theme-less, even without any icon theme set, making it less usable than the same program if I ran it from an Openbox menu or "alt+F2" run command.

While I was hoping there was a somewhat "secret" environment variable that I hadn't set in order to make it work right, I couldn't find one. Instead the only "solution" I have...

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[solved?] New GTK2 bug? Maybe it's a QtCurve bug. Theme changes randomly

Posted 08-30-2015 at 03:23 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 11-21-2015 at 06:22 PM by the dsc

Tags bugs, theme

UPDATE: whatever happened before, it seems that now it can be partly solved by simply commenting out the font-related lines in /usr/share/themes/QtCurve/gtk-2.0/kdeglobals (not to be confused with KDE's own file with the same name!).

After a while (after a massive upgrade) the randomness of the thing stopped, the correct theming consistently fails. More evidently fonts, icon theme, and colors (including tooltips' colors). I'm not sure the widget's "design" is also affected,...

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Pimp my Slack!

Posted 12-12-2009 at 08:08 PM by ~sHyLoCk~
Updated 12-18-2009 at 05:01 AM by ~sHyLoCk~

Tags kde, lilo, slackware, theme

Originally posted in my Blog.

I am a KDE fan. Besides the eye-candy, I love the KDE apps. They are much better at functionality than their Gnome counterparts, e.g-> Brasero in Gnome has caused a lot of burn failures, whereas K3b is just perfect. Gnome just gets in your way of doing things. Anyway, this article is about what I did with my default Slackware install to make it more beautiful. Before I proceed...

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