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Thanks for the tip! It works like a charm for fluxbox aswell! Now I just have turn off or find a suitable background image since gnome-settings-daemon sets the background selected in gnome.

I think gtk-chtheme will work just as well.

Possibly, Dion, but you shouldn't have to install new packages to get something working in one WM that is ok in another. The functionality was already there, it just needed to be activated.

Can't help with the background, Åke, mine still works fine.. but mine *is* dynamically generated by Xplanet..

I'd prefer gtk-chtheme, 'cause i have thrown away most of the gnome-stuff

Good point, but sadly I have to keep Gnome around, so..

As an FVWM user who never really used gnome, I was puzzled when I saw this post first and tried downloading gtk-chtheme to see if I was missing anything. (I'm not about to download all of gnome just for this.) It seems to be a GTK theme changing app, and I notice no difference using it.

Are you trying to say that you couldn't see your gtk theme in FVWM and you are running gnome-settings-daemon to set it?

Why not just manually edit your .gtkrc-2.0 ?

(If I'm wrong, I'm sorry, but I don't know what you mean by "Firefox stopped looking as nice".)

@sok: Things like drop-down menus are set by GTK. In Gnome, they were nicely-rounded off-white and looked good. In FVWM, they were big blocky dark grey things that looked nasty. I hadn't changed my GTK settings, but the settings weren't being applied in FVWM.

Running gnome-settings-daemon fixed the problem. Undoubtedly there are other solutions, but this was the quick and easy one for a computer with valid GTK settings and a full Gnome install.

If changing your GTK theme is making no difference to how GTK apps look, then I'd suggest that your GTK is similarly broken - the whole point of themes is that they change the appearance of the apps!

Well, FVWM applies GTK settings fine, and my GTK is not similarily broken, of course my these change the appearance of the apps. What I meant was, using the aforementioned program didn't change the behaviour of the themes in any way; ie it was just another theme-setting program, it's the same as just manually setting your GTK theme.

You say you hadn't changed your GTK settings, but what probably is happening (I don't use gnome, so I don't know) is that you /never set your theme in you .gtkrc-2.0/ but gnome was setting your GTK theme for you in its settings manager.

Indeed running the gnome settings manager is a quick and easy way to solve the problem for you, but I thought you'd appreciate the simpler textfile method more. You don't need an external program, and you don't need to run gnome stuff.

I don't use Gnome myself where possible, so I'm no expert either. But since I can't uninstall it, I may as well make use of it - saves messing around with config files

can you post a screenshot of your desktop? and your firefox window?