Gnome theme in KDE

mr98ai · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 2:29 pm Post subject: Gnome theme in KDE

I have both KDE installed, as well as Gnome. I prefer to use KDE, but there are a few gnome applications (such as evolution, eclipse, and mozilla firefox) which I cannot live without. When I login to gnome, I set my theme to be something like "thin" or "simple". This works fine. However, when I login to kde, and run a gnome application, I get the default square blah theme that comes with gnome, not my "simple" theme. How do I get gnome applications to use the theme I selected while running gnome?

shm · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 3:11 pm Post subject:

Either:

1.USE="gtk2" emerge gtk-theme-switch
or
2. run gnome-settings-daemon on KDE startup(add a small script to ~.kde/Autostart)

Also turn off "apply KDE colors to other applications" in the KDE Control Center (under Colors)

I think #1 is advantageous because gnome-settings-daemon might muck with other things that KDE handles, like fonts, keyboard mappings, etc..

Unne · l33t Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 616

switch2 and gnome-theme-manager will have weird conflicts with each other if you try to use them both to set a GTK theme. When I use non-Gnome window managers I always rm ~/.gtk* and then use switch2 and it works OK so long as I don't try to use Gnome again.

sparks · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 8:16 pm Post subject:

you don't need to have any part of gnome running while in KDE to get nice gtk2 themes with apps. All you have to do is place a file named .gtkrc-2.0 in your home directory then edit it to your favorite theme & font. Now all your gtk+ apps use that gtk+ theme, even in KDE.

Here is my .gtkrc-2.0

mr98ai · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:03 pm Post subject:

Well, Thanks very much for all your answers. I tried sparks way (using the .gtkrc-2.0 file) and it works flawlessly :wink:

Negeus · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 7:30 pm Post subject:

Thanks sparks, you just answered one of my questions and it was so simple! Thanks again

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Visceral · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 11:36 pm Post subject: Good Lord.

I can't beleive it's that easy to get gtk 2 apps showing up in KDE, it's been daunting me for a year now.

One thing, is it possible to make it use bold text? I tried appending BOLD but ended up getting no text.

gtk-font-name = "Comic Sans MS 10 BOLD"

Suggestions?

And thanks for solving this for me, it's one of the main reason I still use gnome. Who knows now?
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Visceral · Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 12:02 am Post subject:

gtk-font-name = "Comic Sans MS Bold 10"

That did the trick! Very nice!
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bushwakko · Guru Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 495

ahh!! this is just lovley! someone should make this a LOT easier, by making som kgtkswitch or something, that writes to the file. also, I like having kde changing the colors, as long as I choose the theme :)
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