{"id":1247,"date":"2008-05-08T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T10:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/hideous-gtk-themes-in-kde4-sessions\/"},"modified":"2008-05-08T12:58:09","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T10:58:09","slug":"hideous-gtk-themes-in-kde4-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/hideous-gtk-themes-in-kde4-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Hideous GTK themes in KDE4 sessions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some time, GTK apps running inside my KDE4 session would not pick up their theme<br \/>\n    properly, making them look hideous in their default theme. I&#8217;m using a small wrapper<br \/>\n    script (\/usr\/local\/bin\/startkde4) to get my KDE4 desktop up and running. Since I&#8217;ve put<br \/>\n    the &#8220;unset GTK2*&#8221; line into the script, GTK apps pick their theme again:<\/p>\n<pre>\n#!\/bin\/sh\n\nexport LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\/home\/kdedev\/kde\/lib\nexport KDEDIR=\/home\/kdedev\/kde\nexport PATH=$KDEDIR\/bin\/:$PATH\nexport KDEHOME=~\/.kde4\n\nunset GTK2_RC_FILES\n\n. \/home\/kdedev\/kde\/bin\/startkde\n<\/pre>\n<p>If you&#8217;re still living under the &#8220;I use a GTK1 app&#8221; stone, put another line for GTK(1) apps<br \/>\nin there.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nHope this tip keeps someone from tearing out hair. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some time, GTK apps running inside my KDE4 session would not pick up their theme properly, making them look hideous in their default theme. I&#8217;m using a small wrapper script (\/usr\/local\/bin\/startkde4) to get my KDE4 desktop up and running. Since I&#8217;ve put the &#8220;unset GTK2*&#8221; line into the script, GTK apps pick their theme&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/hideous-gtk-themes-in-kde4-sessions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hideous GTK themes in KDE4 sessions.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}