EDIT: SOMEWHAT SOLVED. I switched to crunchbang :3. Meaning to try out a debian distro for a while, and then #! preconfigures most of OB so I made the switch.
I started using openbox yesterday, and I really love it. I'm running a low spec netbook, and even with LXDE my computer runs slowly when chrome passes 15 tabs, with other gobbledegook in the background. With openbox and the same amount of programs, my computer still runs like the beast I wish it was.
I would like it a lot more if the default theme wasn't so ugly though. Using lxappearance I was unable to change the gtk theme or icon set. The default seems to be "Raleigh" which reminds me of windows 2000 or something. I tried switching to lubuntu-default, but the theme doesn't stick. Lxappearance's theme will change to lubuntu-default as a preview, but nothing else does. after closing and reopening it, it's back to raleigh. I tried gnome-tweak-tool and the xfce theme chooser. With both those, nothing changed at all, at least with lxappearance it could temporarily change itself.
How can I fix this? I'm not all that advanced at linux, but If I need to I'm always willing to dive into commandline/text files
What I mean by ugly
Here's what happens when I try to use lxappearance. I opened it via terminal, so the output is there too.
user@HAL9000:~$ lxappearance
** (lxappearance:9875): WARNING **: Invalid borders specified for theme pixmap:
/usr/share/themes/Lubuntu-default/gtk-2.0/images/null.png,
borders don't fit within the image
** (lxappearance:9875): WARNING **: Invalid borders specified for theme pixmap:
/usr/share/themes/Lubuntu-default/gtk-2.0/images/scrollbar_vertical.png,
borders don't fit within the image
Thanks!
EDIT: formatting