Using GTK Themes in Fluxbox

gf3 · 08-23-2004, 10:23 AM

I was wondering if anyone could help me get my GTK themes working in Fluxbox. I had them working quite well with my GTK apps (e.g. FireFox) when I was running GNOME, but I just switched to Fluxbox and everything is the default flat grey. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

wapcaplet · 08-23-2004, 09:33 PM

Check out GTK Theme Switch, a little command-line utility to change your GTK theme settings.

jev-bird · 08-23-2004, 11:50 PM

You will need to start your gnome-settings-deamon. It should be something like:

exec /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon

adding that to a startup script or your .bashrc should start it automatically when you log in. Or just run the gnome-theme-manager or gnome-control-center and it will start your settings daemon. However if you have nautilus it will draw your desktop in fluxbox. To get pass that use your gconf-editor and go in the backgrounds settings. Tell gnome not to draw a desktop.

gf3 · 08-24-2004, 09:11 AM

thanks that worked great!

acid_kewpie · 08-24-2004, 09:31 AM

you really don't need that settings daemon at all. gtk themes will work fine without it, it just uses up your CPU time and slows things down a bit. without that daemon it'll still look the same. ALl i notice when i've accidentally loaded nautilus or somethign that loads the daemon itself is that the fonts change size.... window decorations remain identical.

gf3 · 08-24-2004, 09:40 AM

Well, before I was loading the daemon when I launched a gtk app the themes wouldn't load it was just the default grey. But now all my apps are nicely skinned. So the settings daemon is doing what I wanted it to do.