GTK apps look 'n' feel

[Martin Bretschneider]

Am 20.10.2011 17:57, schrieb Mark Greenwood:

Hi Mark,

I also do have the same problem. In Kubuntu 11.04 gtk apps linke evince 
got the theme adjusted in the "gtk appearance setting" of the "system 
settings". Since the update to 11.10 the have the ugly default gtk style.

Does anyone knows the solution?

TIA  Martin

> Hi Glenn,
>
> It looks to me like the app you're running is running as root (or via
> kdesudo), in which case yes it will look like that since the GTK look
> and feel only applies to apps running as the current user.
>
> You used to be able to fix this by symlinking some appropriate
> directories into /root... but I don't know if this still works. Google
> may help but if I were you I'd just live with it.
>
> Mark
>
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Glenn Holmer <shadowm at lyonlabs.org
> <mailto:shadowm at lyonlabs.org>> wrote:
>
>     Is this the way GTK apps are supposed to look? Can I make them look
>     better?
>
>     http://lyonlabs.org/gtk-theme.png
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