Other How to change GTK / Qt themes in icewm

[Deleted member 67862]

Greetings,

I've been using icewm as my window manager of choice for a while now but I can't figure out how to change themes for Gtk2-3 and Qt5. I've tried to use x11-themes/lxappearance and x11-themes/Kvantum respectively but neither one seem to make any changes to their dedicated applications. Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks

 

[eternal_noob]

Maybe this helps: https://ice-wm.org/themes/

 

[Deleted member 67862]

Maybe this helps: https://ice-wm.org/themes/

This is for themeing icewm itself. I just need ways to theme GTK and Qt applications since icewm's theme is separate from both.

 

[eternal_noob]

Ah, ok. I got you wrong then.
Sorry, no idea.

 

[Holger]

You can change the appearance of GTK/Qt-based application by tweaking config files in ~/.config. For example, GTK3 themes can be set in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini. Mine looks as follows:

[Settings]
gtk-cursor-theme-name=Adwaita
gtk-print-preview-command=xpdf %f

While this does not configure a completely new theme, it fixes missing mouse cursor icons (that's currently all I want).

 

[Sevendogsbsd]

I believe you can also tweak QT settings with misc/qt5ct

 

[bsduck]

Environment variables should work:
QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=your-qt-theme
GTK_THEME=your-gtk-theme

For Qt theming I recommend misc/qt5ct too, which is quite convenient.
You'll need to set QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct to enable it.