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vinox

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Registered: 2020-01-27

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xfce4-appearance-settings - selected theme?

How can I determine which theme is currently selected inside xfce4-appearance-settings?
See also the the screenshot below - there's no entry highlighted.
Is there possibly some config file I could check?

BenyaminL

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Registered: 2019-10-11

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Re: xfce4-appearance-settings - selected theme?

It should be shown clicked, why yours isn't hmm.. scroll to see which one is selected.

I'm in XFCE Spins Fedora, so I don't know about ubuntu, but it should be the same

Last edited by BenyaminL (2022-10-24 08:15:40)

vinox

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Re: xfce4-appearance-settings - selected theme?

I'm on Linux Mint 20.3 which features Xfce 4.16.
There's nothing selected when I scroll.

ToZ

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Re: xfce4-appearance-settings - selected theme?

Looks like you are using the default GTK3 built-in adwaita theme. This will confirm:

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName

If it returns a blank (null string) then you are.

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inukaze

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Registered: 2014-07-31

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Re: xfce4-appearance-settings - selected theme?

Looks like you are using the default GTK3 built-in adwaita theme. This will confirm:

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName

If it returns a blank (null string) then you are.

Which command i should use to set another theme ?

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: xfce4-appearance-settings - selected theme?

Looks like you are using the default GTK3 built-in adwaita theme. This will confirm:

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName

If it returns a blank (null string) then you are.

Which command i should use to set another theme ?

You can use the GUI to set a theme, but if you are looking for a command, you could use:

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName -s "THEMENAME"

...where "THEMENAME" is the name of the theme you want to use.

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inukaze

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Registered: 2014-07-31

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Re: xfce4-appearance-settings - selected theme?

Looks like you are using the default GTK3 built-in adwaita theme. This will confirm:

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName

If it returns a blank (null string) then you are.

Which command i should use to set another theme ?

You can use the GUI to set a theme, but if you are looking for a command, you could use:

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName -s "THEMENAME"

...where "THEMENAME" is the name of the theme you want to use.

Thank you very much i prefer use by this way:

THEMENAME="Deepin" ; xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName -s "$THEMENAME"

Well i need to search how i can make my own theme compatible with GTK 4/3/2/1, QT 6/5/4/3/2/1 with skeuomorphism because i really don't like material desing / flat themes. and i want make for all that apis because on GNU does not exist a common library for render and decorate windows regardless of the desktop environment that is in use and still maintain visual cohesion and coherence with respect to the theme select by user.