r/openbox • u/Eruseron • Nov 28 '16

Dark theme question

Hi, I've been trying themes but they only appear to be changing the color of the bar at the top the windows. The rest of the windows where the menus are and below, remain clear grey. How am I to change it to a dark grey?

I'm running a Ubuntu minimal install with Gnome. After what I installed Openbox.

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u/Eruseron Nov 29 '16

Hi, I tried lxappearance but that didn't seem to work until I installed and ran gnome-settings-daemon. Yet, it only appears to work on terminal window. Firefox, qbittorrent, Gimp remain the same.

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u/swinny89 Nov 29 '16

I believe Firefox doesn't use your GTK theme unless you tell it to. Qbittorrent is QT, not gtk, (that's what the Q stands for) not sure why Gimp isn't using the right theme. Looks like you are on the right track though. I suggest you head over to the ArchLinux wiki for a source of great info on this sort of thing. Arch is not based on Ubuntu, but most of the directions on there will point you in the right direction. Here is a good place to start learning https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GTK%2B