KDE Context Menu Theme & Alt-Tab Issue

Enfield · n00b Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 12 Location: Great Britain

Hi there,

When right clicking to bring up the context menu, depending on what application I am in I get two different themes. For example in KWrite I get the nice Oxygen theme, but in a different application, such as GIMP or Chromium I get a completely different boring looking one. How can I amend this?

Secondly, if I am in Stellarium and try to alt-tab back into Chromium, I briefly see parts of Chromium but it doesn't switch.

I am using the latest fglrx driver, I don't know if this has any impact on the second issue.

Thanks

aCOSwt · Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 8:40 am Post subject:

kwrite is a qt app (using qt themes) while TheGimp and Chromium are gtk+(2) app (using gtk+(2) themes).

If you want to change themes for gtk+ apps in kde then :

under System Settings / Application Appearance / GTK, you'll be able to select the theme you wish for your gtk+ applications running in the KDE environment.

If you want the oxygen theme and it does not appear in the drop boxes, then you might need to first emerge :

x11-themes/oxygen-gtk (slot 2 for gtk+2 apps AND slot 3 for gtk+3 apps if you get applications depending on gtk+3)
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Enfield · n00b Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 12 Location: Great Britain

As simple as that, nice one, thank you.

Any ideas for the alt-tab issue?
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Enfield · n00b Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 12 Location: Great Britain

Hi,

The 'Install GTK Theme' button is greyed out.

Any ideas?
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