SUSE 13.1 LXDE - wrong GTK theme

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Hello,

i’ve installed SUSE 13.1 with LXDE yesterday, but there are some really ugly GTK “glitches”:

When i right-click on my desktop, it’s not using my GTK theme: (no idea why, so i haven’t tried anything)
http://www.bilderhoster.net/thumbs/932x7zx2.png](http://www.bilderhoster.net/932x7zx2.png.html)

PCManFM is not using my gtk theme and selected files are black: (no idea why, so i haven’t tried anything)
http://www.bilderhoster.net/thumbs/a7vnrt14.png](http://www.bilderhoster.net/a7vnrt14.png.html)

Applications executed as root don’t use my gtk theme: (i’ve copied my .gtkrc-2.0 to /root and edited paths)
http://www.bilderhoster.net/thumbs/1gcykx8j.png](http://www.bilderhoster.net/1gcykx8j.png.html)

Correct gtk theme:
http://www.bilderhoster.net/thumbs/hygwdl7x.png](http://www.bilderhoster.net/hygwdl7x.png.html)

The theme folder contains “gtk-2.0” and “gtk-3.0” so it’s compatible with gtk2 and gtk3, right?
ls output of the theme folder:


xorg@xorg-pc:~/.themes/delorean-dark-theme-3.9$ ls
DeLoreanDark-Chromium.crx  gtk-3.0      metacity-1  Software-Center  xfwm4
gtk-2.0                    index.theme  openbox-3   xfce-notify-4.0
xorg@xorg-pc:~/.themes/delorean-dark-theme-3.9$

Does anybody know why?

Thanks, XorgMC

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And how did you set that gtk theme?
PcManFM and LXDE use Gtk3, so just setting the Gtk2 theme won’t have any effect on them.

Applications executed as root don’t use my gtk theme: (i’ve copied my .gtkrc-2.0 to /root and edited paths)

Well, YaST also uses Gtk3, so copying the .gtkrc-2.0 won’t have effect on it of course.

Correct gtk theme:

Well, galculator uses Gtk2 and VLC uses Qt, so that would also support my suspicion that you did not set the Gtk3 theme correctly.

The Gtk3 theme is configured in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini …

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I choosed the theme with [first LXApperance (nothing happened)] gtk-chtheme (worked).

If LXDE uses GTK3, why is the right-click menu wrong and the application menu ok?

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Yeah, right. According to its homepage that program sets the Gtk2 theme.

If LXDE uses GTK3, why is the right-click menu wrong and the application menu ok?

Well, maybe that was not quite correct, sorry.
PcManFM (and YaST) uses Gtk3, lxpanel f.e. uses Gtk2.
Seems to be quite a mess…

So I still would say you should set the Gtk3 theme correctly, too.

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How to do this, when LXApperance isn’t working? :smiley:

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Use something else.
F.e. KDE’s Systemsettings, GNOME’s Controlcenter or Tweak Tool.
Or edit ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini with a text editor, see here for more information:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GTK+#GTK.2B_3.x

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Still not working

Choosed my gtk+ theme with GNOME Tweak Tool and edited ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

After relogging, still that ugly gtk3 theme, but GTT is showing me the theme that i choosed (as a setting, but it’s also in that ugly theme)

Contents of my ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini:


xorg@xorg-pc:~$ cat .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
[Settings]
gtk-theme-name=delorean-dark-theme-3.9
gtk-icon-theme-name=oxygen
gtk-font-name=Sans 10
gtk-cursor-theme-size=18
gtk-toolbar-style=GTK_TOOLBAR_BOTH_HORIZ
gtk-toolbar-icon-size=GTK_ICON_SIZE_LARGE_TOOLBAR
gtk-button-images=1
gtk-menu-images=1
gtk-enable-event-sounds=1
gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds=1
gtk-xft-antialias=1
gtk-xft-hinting=1
gtk-xft-hintstyle=hintfull
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=1
xorg@xorg-pc:~$

Contents of my .gtkrc-2.0:


xorg@xorg-pc:~$ cat .gtkrc-2.0
# -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT
include "/home/xorg/.themes/delorean-dark-theme-3.9/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

style "user-font" {
    font_name = "Sans 10"
}

widget_class "*" style "user-font"

gtk-font-name="Sans 10"

include "/home/xorg/.gtkrc.mine"

# -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT
xorg@xorg-pc:~$

Contents of the theme’s folder:


xorg@xorg-pc:~/.themes/delorean-dark-theme-3.9$ ls
DeLoreanDark-Chromium.crx  gtk-3.0*      metacity-1*  Software-Center*  xfwm4*
gtk-2.0*                    index.theme  openbox-3*   xfce-notify-4.0*
xorg@xorg-pc:~/.themes/delorean-dark-theme-3.9$ ls gtk-2.0/
colors-dev  gtkrc  images*  panel-background*  panelrc  sidebarrc
xorg@xorg-pc:~/.themes/delorean-dark-theme-3.9$ ls gtk-3.0/
assets*                                 gtk-widgets-assets-dark.css
borders*                                gtk-widgets-backgrounds.css
gnome-applications.css                 gtk-widgets-borders.css
gnome-applications-dark-overrides.css  gtk-widgets-borders-dark.css
gtk.css                                gtk-widgets.css
gtk-dark.css                           gtk-widgets-dark-overrides.css
gtk-fallback.css                       overlay-scrollbar.css
gtk-main-common.css                    settings.ini
gtk-main.css                           unity.css
gtk-main-dark.css                      unity-neon.css
gtk-widgets-assets.css                 unity-simple.css
xorg@xorg-pc:~/.themes/delorean-dark-theme-3.9$

(Entrys with * are folders (they are blue in terminal))

Now i’m confused…

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Hm, maybe that theme doesn’t work with the latest gtk3?
Where did you download the theme from? I could try it on my system.

Does it work if you select a different Gtk3 theme?

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Other distributions
Download DeLorean-Dark-Themes-3.8. Unzip and as privileged user copy the following four delorean-dark-theme-*-3.9 folders to /usr/share/themes/. This theme will not work properly when installed to ~/.themes.

DeLorean-Dark-Themes-3.8 by killhellokitty on deviantART