GTK in KDE

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01-18-2006
PsypherPunk

GTK in KDE

Typically i've been using the GTK-QT engine to keep all GTK apps. (Firefox, Thunderbird, et al.) looking suitable. However, in Firefox, on some pages i end up with white writing on a white background which causes trouble so i've set the GTK items to use different themes via the KDE Control Center.

The problem is that, despite there being about a dozen or so GTK themes to choose from, most of them don't seem to work and leave GTK apps. with my QT settings. Or they end up looking W95-like (with no visible difference between themes).

i've upgraded to the latest QT/GTK via YaST - do they work well together as above? How do you actually install GTK themes in KDE?
01-18-2006
GNOME_n00b

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How do you actually install GTK themes in KDE?

easy peasy. i always install gtk themes for system-wide availability. that is, i always place them in /opt/gnome/share/themes. themes usually come as a gz or a bz2, so unzip them into a temp location. then fire up a terminal and use 'su' to gain root privilages and then 'cp' to copy them to /opt/gnome/share/themes. actually, my linux is box is not connected to the internet, so i usually log in as root to use konquereror(in root, KDE is the one that i use) to copy the themes to /opt/gnome/share/themes....but thats not the most advisable method because its easy to screw up if logged in as root.
01-18-2006
bryansmith

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Originally Posted by GNOME_n00b

so i usually log in as root to use konquereror

A helpful hint for you, try:

Code:

kdesu konqueror

This will ask for your root password and then launch konqueror as root ;).

Bryan
01-18-2006
GNOME_n00b

Quote:

Originally Posted by bryansmith

A helpful hint for you, try:

Code:

kdesu konqueror

This will ask for your root password and then launch konqueror as root ;).

Bryan

i'll try that. cheers for the tip :)