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davidII

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Registered: 2014-07-04

Posts: 2

different theme for a single app

Hello all,

is it possible to set a different theme for one specific application?

I found a few docs about this problem (f.e. http://askubuntu.com/questions/7808), I tried to set environment variables  GTK2_RC_FILES and GTK_THEME, but without success.

I'm currently using XFCE 4.10 on Debian Testing.

Thanks
David

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: different theme for a single app

It depends on the application and the GTK version toolkit that the app is built with.

For example, to run mousepad (built on GTK2) with a different GTK2 theme, you would:

GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/<theme>/gtk-2.0/gtkrc mousepad

...where <theme> is the name of the GTK2 theme.

To run an app built on the GTK3 toolkit (example easytag) with another GTK3 theme, you would use:

GTK_THEME=<theme> easytag

...where <theme> is the name of the GTK3 theme.

Keep in mind that this only changes the GTK component of the theme, not the window manager (xfwm) component. I am unaware of a method to change the xfwm theme on a per-application basis.

What app are you trying to run?

Edit: Fixed typos.

Last edited by ToZ (2014-07-07 17:35:04)

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davidII

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Registered: 2014-07-04

Posts: 2

Re: different theme for a single app

Thanks for the explanation.

Keep in mind that this only changes the GTK component of the theme, not the window manager (xfwm) component. I am unaware of a method to change the xfwm theme on a per-application basis.

That's it. I need to change the window decoration.

Our users use two instances of web browser. One of them starts remotely and offers a special web app, so I would like to distinguish its window by other color of a title bar...

Is there anyone else who knows if it is possible in xfwm?

azim

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Registered: 2013-06-16

Posts: 16

Re: different theme for a single app

If you can run the second instance of the browser as a different user there than it should be piece of cake i think ... (i think that since my former problems with access rights into ~/.theme folder for some users)
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i'm not able to explain how you should achieve it but can try at home and if success will let you know, maybe ToZ will help ... he is xfceguru ;-)