Re: Advice for changing-theme-function for GNU/Linux system

[Jonas Damm <emails@jonas-damm.de>]

> Hm. For me, choosing the theme in xfce4-appearance-settings works for
> Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, and Evince, while going through
> xfconf-query only affects the former three.

Its the same for me. I am trying to get help from the GNOME people on
this, but that seems pretty difficult. Thanks so far. If i get around to
write my emacs-function, I will post it here..

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 at 16:13, Jonas Damm <emails@jonas-damm.de> wrote:
>
>> However my GTK applications like Evince do not change their theme. Not
>> even by restarting them.
>>
>> I am running the xfsettingsd with the --sm-client-disable option and
>> then change the theme with this command:
>>
>> xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName -s "Adwaita-dark"
>>
>> Any Idea why that is?
>
> I don’t know, does changing the theme interactively through
> xfce4-appearance-settings work for you?
>
> Hm. For me, choosing the theme in xfce4-appearance-settings works for
> Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, and Evince, while going through
> xfconf-query only affects the former three. Both work for Atril
> though. (Atril is to Xfce as Evince is to GNOME.)
>
> (We might have crossed into offtopic territory.)