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Thursday, January 12th 2006, 2:45pm

window-style for all applications

Hello everybody!

I am new to Linux (2-3 month now) and I always used Gnome and now switched to KDE. So I'm not sure if this is a bug or if it should be like that... (I'm using FC4-x86_64).

First thing, after I installed FC it had their own default theme.. I changed the theme with the thememanager to "Plastik" - after that I wasnt able to activate the old theme.. its not there. I logged in as root (where the "old" default theme was still active) and checked the thememanager (where no theme was activated), but I couldnt locate the local theme files (I searched etc. but found no theme... where are they stored?). This is not that bad (because I dont like the default theme) but its strange....

My real problem (-> topic) is that my active theme (Plastik) is not applied to all applications... konqueror for example uses the theme (and the Control Center etc.), firefox does not (and other applications like gaim, gftp, freeciv etc.) - I checked all installed themes (in the manager, I dont know "where" they are) but the style they use is not there (its a real simple style, close to old windows versions). I googled and searched ways to "force" other applications to use the same theme I selected in the manager, but I found nothing (in Gnome it worked, all applications used the selected theme, and I used Suse with KDE for some days and it worked too).

After I installed my nvidia drivers a message popped up which said that a theme file wasnt found, but this was at the beginning and I wasnt able to repdoduce the message... I think it has something to do with that... I hope anyone can help me.

edit: maybe important: It's only the button-style etc. that is not working for the other applications... the "windows-decoration" (the header) is the same for all...

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "fantadan" (Jan 12th 2006, 2:47pm)


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Friday, January 13th 2006, 1:07pm

I think that the problem you have occurs only in applications that are able to load their own skins, am I right? This is a logical behaviour, since these apps do load their skins instead of the kde theme.

For most of them, you'll find some plastik-like skins to download and install, just have a glance at kde-look.org, I bet you'll find what you're looking for.

Refarding Firefox, they have their own themes page. Just open the Tools menu and click the themes item to navigate to the downloads, choose the theme you'd like to have, it will be installed on the fly.

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Friday, January 13th 2006, 4:53pm

no they are not... and like I said, this was working in Gnome and KDE with Suse... but I found the problem (which was very simple like I thought), I just forgot to install the gtk2-engine package (I thought they do this by default, but I was wrong ;)