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Re: changing icon theme in debian without a DE installed?



On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 18:58:00 -0400
Nick Lidakis <nlidakis@verizon.net> wrote:

> Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:46:39 -0400
> > Nick Lidakis <nlidakis@verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> I've tried Googling this to no avail. I have the file manager
> >> Thunar installed. I'm trying to figure out how to change the icons
> >> that Thunar (or all of my GTK2 apps for that matter, e.g. Abiword)
> >> is using. It seems to using the the stock gnome icons I have
> >> installed. I don't have Gnome or Xfce installed. GTK2-theme switch
> >> is installed, but that just changes the GTK theme from ./themes.
> >> Apt-cache search reveals nothing similar to GTK2-theme-switcher.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > Create a file called ~/.gtkrc-2.0 (just for yourself)
> > or /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc (for all users) and add the following line:
> >
> >     gtk-icon-theme-name="Industrial"
> >
> > to use the Industrial icon theme, for example. Any GTK2 icon theme
> > installed into /usr/share/icons will do. A lot of GTK2 properties
> > can be set statically in this way. See
> >
> >     http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkSettings.html
> >
> > for details.
> >
> >   
> I actually have that file in my home dierctory, and it reads as
> follows:
> 
> # -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT
> include "/home/nick/.themes/Clearlooks_Cairo-Breathe/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
> 
> style "user-font"
> {
>   font_name="Verdana 10"
> }
> widget_class "*" style "user-font"
> 
> include "/home/nick/.gtkrc-2.0.mine"
> 
> # -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT
> 
> 
> 
> The Clearlooks theme works  fine, but I'm having a hard time trying
> to figure out how to have Clearlook use my Nue icons which are
> located in ~./icons. Any suggestions?
> 
> 

You have two choices:

1. Keep your copy of ~/.gtkrc-2.0 (which looks like it was written by
the theme switcher) and put further customisations in
~/.gtkrc.mine

2. Replace the contents of ~/.gtkrc-2.0 with the following:

    gtk-theme-name="Clearlooks_Cairo-Breathe"
    gtk-font-name="Verdana 10"
    gtk-icon-theme-name="Industrial"

and don't use the theme switcher again.

The second option certainly gives cleaner output.

-- 

Liam



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