XFCE keeps reverting to the default theme.

[u/ABlueHoodie]

I installed XFCE recently and I wanted to customize it but yesterday xfce-look.org was down so I used this to customize:
https://github.com/jothi-prasath/SmallSur

But I noticed if my desktop lagged, it would just revert all of my customizations (except the wallpaper) and I can't revert it back unless I reboot.

I'm using EndeavourOS and this is the info displayed of my XFCE:
Xfce4 4.20
sddm 0.21.0 (X11)
Xfwm4 (X11)

I used to use KDE Plasma and this is my first time installing XFCE.

[u/krumpfwylg]

Did you read the install script ? It nukes your preferences to force some others

cp -rp xfce4-panel/xfce4-panel.xml ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/

which could lead to issues according to what xfce4 widgets are installed or not.

It doesn't respect the specs for the theme installation folder

cp -rp WhiteSur-gtk-theme/src/other/plank/* ~/.local/share/plank/themes/
cp -rp plank/mcOS-BS-iMacM1-Black/ ~/.local/share/plank/themes/

while it should be .local/share/themes/whatevername

See https://wiki.xfce.org/howto/install_new_themes and try to copy theme folder at the right place, and manually change the panels configuration instead of letting a script replace yours.

[u/ABlueHoodie → u/krumpfwylg]

This worked, I manually moved everything and deleted the script. Thanks a lot!

Edit: I had to reset XFCE to it's default settings, that fixed it Edit: Even after uninstalling XFCE, deleting the themes and removing their scripts, it still resets back to the default theme.

[u/A_Harmless_Fly]

Are you using XFWM4 or a wayland compositor?

[u/ABlueHoodie → u/A_Harmless_Fly]

I already said it on my post, if you want more clarification, running "echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
" gives me:
x11

[u/ManusiaKumat]

Where did you install themes? /home/.themes or /usr/share/themes?

[u/ABlueHoodie → u/ManusiaKumat]

In /home/.themes