Frefox under Fluxbox looks absolutely terrible.

The only themes I have in /usr/share/themes are Default, Emacs and Raleigh. However, I installed the tango icons theme pack, and am using a .gtkrc-2.0 as per below.

Surely this should still load tango icons? If I need a theme, what should I grab from the slack cd?

Do you mean the default Firefox theme? This is not the same as the gtk theme you are using.

Well, by default, without a .gtkrc-2.0 file, Firefox looks terrible. So I suppose this is what I mean. I then created such a file to try and use the Tango theme, but nothing changed.

Firefox has its own themes; these are totally independent of the gtk theme...you may want to try one if you don't care for the default. Changing the gtk theme will have no effect on the Firefox theme.

Are you sure about that? All of the advice I have gotten and everything I have read is to the contrary. Firefox has its own themes which go over the GTK theme being used, as I understand it.

/edit/ I see I was mistaken about that 8^)

Firefox does use the GTK theme, in addition to its own.

See here on how to set the GTK theme when you're using Fluxbox:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi....php?p=3577464

Try launching a GTK app from an XTerm. Do you see any error messages regarding the GTK or icon theme?

Well you can choose, you can either use a Firefox-specific theme (via add-ons menu) or a gtk theme. I usually prefer the former.

Thanks for the tip dugan, I will try that out later.

mudangel, H_TeXMeX_H, :

I can't not use the GTK theme. Firefox themes will change elements at a higher level, but the core will still look ugly. A good example would be the firefox icon in the top left being horrible pixelated. Really, very horribly pixelated. The GTK theme must be used, as well as a firefox theme if you desire. However, the gtk theme is not optional, while the firefox theme is.

Here is an article detailing this: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/n...-for-linux.ars

Maybe showing some screenshots of your firefox will help us to see what it looks like.

What version of Firefox are you running?

If you are having problems with the firefox default theme and your gtk settings, first make sure nothing (such as other Addons or settings) in your firefox profile is overriding the settings. An easy way to do this is to test a fresh profile. ("firefox -ProfileManager"...)

I like to use lxappearance for setting gtk themes.

A complete Firefox theme should override all of the icons, colors, etc, so you should not have the gtk problems you are describing with one of them. I use Utopia FFSE White

I'm sorry, perhaps my reading comprehensive is low. I don't see your original post actually being a problem. You have not declared a GTK2 theme in gtkrc-2.0. You did declare an icon theme and some other settings, not an actual tool kit theme.

Some GTK2 themes are included with the Xfce package. If you are unwilling to install all of Xfce just for a couple of themes, try one of these
http://art.gnome.org/themes
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13...op/clearlooks/
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13...nodoka-engine/
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.0/desktop/murrine/

An example of a gtkrc-2.0 with a defined theme

I am running the default version of firefox that comes with Slack64, 3.5.2

I currently have no tool to create a screenshot, as I did a minimal install. Is there a simple tool on the cd?

I thought I only had to assign the tango icon theme? Is there perhaps some simple themes I can install off the CD, without having to install XFCE or additional applications?

GTK uses two themes. 1 for the icons and 1 for the toolkit. GTK apps look nasty in fluxbox without defining a toolkit theme. GTK-1 appearance is about what I would call it.

I'm not sure of any other GTK2 themes on the Slackware CD besides what comes in Xfce. I believe audacious installs a GTK2 theme - it's all black if you like dark themes. Try one of the themes I linked to at SlackBuilds.org.

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If you did a minimal install you most likely don't have dev packages?
http://repository.slacky.eu/slackwar...urrine/0.90.3/
There's a package for the murrine theme.
Define one of the gtkrc files in your .gtkrc-2.0 file.

I have attached an image for those curious.

disturbed1, I did my version of a minimal install, not the one described on these boards, so I d have libraries and such.

I am kind of surprised slack ships without at least one theme as an option, surely I am not the only one wanting to use Firefox without Gnome or XFCE?

edit: OK, I am trying to use the clearlooks slackbuild from the slackbuilds site, and it gives an error as I need at least GTK-2.0, while a quick look in /var/adm/packages shows gtk-2-2.14.7 is installed.

Hmm

OK, do I actually need to install GTK-2.0 despite having 2.2 installed?