"Looks" of programs via ssh (gtk)

[mustard]

Hello.
I am running a server that i control via ssh. I've emerged easytag to tag my music. But when i run easytag via ssh it just looks plain ugly (As opposed to the beautiful look on their homepage) I suppose this has something to do with the graphic library or something (qt/gtk/motif etc). Latest version of gtk+ is running on both server and laptop. Is there a way to have the nice looks also via ssh?
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[furanku]

I assume you use "ssh -X" to connect to your server and start your graphical application then in a remote shell. This will use the server starting the X programm as a client for your local X server (I know that sounds confusing but clinet and server are vice versa in the X world). So all the settings for the themes, styles, fonts ... for easytag are read form the remote home directory, because it's a remote client running.

So you should, if your server has an installed X Server and a Monitor and a keyboard, log on on that machine directly (as the same user that you use to log in via ssh) , adopt the look as you like by installing the neccessary themes (for that you need of course to become temoprarily root), fonts, ... after that the look on the remote machine should be the same as for the local user on the server.

If you can't go that way, maybe because of the server hasn't a X server, install easytag (or any other gtk application) on your remote machine, adopt the look using the themes, ... Then login to the server, install the same themes there and copy over the neccessary config files (~/.gtkrc, ...).

Although that works, my advice would be to look for NX if you want to use graphical applications on a remote machine. This protocol is also based on ssh, but uses a much better compression specifically optimized for the X protocol, so even over a DSL connection you can work smoothly on a whole remote Desktop. In the future also much better integration into the current desktop environments are expected, so you'll have a nice assistent for configuring the connection, the ability to log in to a remota machine vie your normal login manager, etc ...