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Crunchie

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Registered: 2009-12-21

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Switching themes

Hi, I just thought of a really cool idea, I thought I should share it with every tweaker here xD

I thought we could make multiple themes.
and use cron to switch them, that way, we can have a "day" them, a "night" theme and etc

wouldn't that be cool xD

Anyways, I'm just wondering, since we can't use it to run lxappearance and obconf what entries in what files are changed when you change themes (GTK and openbox)?

pvsage

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Registered: 2009-10-18

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Re: Switching themes

That would apparently be ~/.gtkrc-2.0

EDIT: ...and ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml

Last edited by pvsage (2009-12-24 05:17:48)

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Crunchie

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Re: Switching themes

Thanks for the answer
I noticed, there is also a gtkrc.mine in the same directory as gtkrc-2.0 (gotta love tab,haha)

also, themerc uses fluxbox like syntax, so I don't think it should replace rc.xml

Last edited by Crunchie (2009-12-24 05:22:32)

pvsage

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Re: Switching themes

For the gtk theme switching, it looks like you need a command line tool.  Perhaps GTK Theme Switch?

From the website:
"GTK Theme Switch is a small and fast command line utility to switch GTK themes on the fly."

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Crunchie

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Re: Switching themes

Ah cool, that's perfect =P
Don't even have to write scripts to edit files or anything

pvsage

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Re: Switching themes

You might need to write a scriptlet to pass the theme name to the switcher.  I'm not the least bit familiar with cron, but it would seem to be more useful if it lets you send such parameters through it.

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Crunchie

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Re: Switching themes

You might need to write a scriptlet to pass the theme name to the switcher.  I'm not the least bit familiar with cron, but it would seem to be more useful if it lets you send such parameters through it.

Yeah, I'm not familiar with it either, just came across it last night.

I think I can always make a script that changes the theme and use cron to run it (I think it should be able to do it) so parameter support or not doesn't really change much.