From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jonas Damm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Advice for changing-theme-function for GNU/Linux system Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 12:36:19 +0200 Message-ID: <87h73er9cp.fsf@jonas-damm.de> References: <87o7xnd545.fsf@jonas-damm.de> <87tu7ebx67.fsf@jonas-damm.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37959"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: mu4e 1.8.3; emacs 28.1.90 Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 18 12:51:00 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oDOL5-0009fw-Q2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2022 12:50:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46622 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oDOL4-0002Xc-MI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2022 06:50:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56936) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oDOCN-0006fH-W1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2022 06:42:07 -0400 Original-Received: from dd15330.kasserver.com ([85.13.136.159]:46524) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oDOCM-0002sg-0n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2022 06:41:59 -0400 Original-Received: from x220t (unknown [185.220.70.69]) by dd15330.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 20AB37500499; Mon, 18 Jul 2022 12:41:43 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: X-Spamd-Bar: - Received-SPF: none client-ip=85.13.136.159; envelope-from=emails@jonas-damm.de; helo=dd15330.kasserver.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_NONE=0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:138519 Archived-At: > 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 writes: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 at 16:13, Jonas Damm 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=E2=80=99t 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.)