{"id":1081,"date":"2009-12-27T03:28:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T21:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2009-12-27T03:28:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T21:58:42","slug":"stop-gnome-applications-from-looking-ugly-in-kde4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/stop-gnome-applications-from-looking-ugly-in-kde4\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Gnome Applications from looking ugly in KDE4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I have been using KDE (even in v3.5) I have noticed that Gnome applications look ugly in KDE. (see screenshot below) In KDE 3.5 I had to install the Gnome theme controller application and apply a theme and it fixed the issue. (I can’t recall the name right now, but it was something gnome-theme-something) but in KDE4 that didn’t work so well. <\/p>\n


\nFirefox without GTK Themes <\/center><\/p>\n

Did a little research and tried various options but none of them worked that well and caused loads of issues. Finally I found a way to get the applications to use the current GTK theme in KDE even after I rebooted the system without any manual intervention.<\/p>\n

  • Open a shell prompt or open the Run dialog by pressing Alt-F2<\/li>\n
  • Type gnome-settings-daemon<\/em> and press enter<\/li>\n

    Once you do this all running GTK applications, as well as any more you launch, will switch to your GNOME theme and will look a lot nicer (See screenshot below)<\/p>\n


    \nFirefox with GTK Themes<\/center><\/p>\n

    As you can see the program looks a lot less ugly with the themes applied. However if you reboot the system without configuring the gnome-settings-daemon to auto start, the applications will go back to the default no-theme state. <\/p>\n

    To set the daemon to autostart create a text file called theme.desktop<\/em> (Actually This can be anything you want as long as you keep the .desktop extension) in the ~\/.kde\/Autostart<\/em> directory with the following contents:<\/p>\n

    \n[Desktop Entry]
    \nExec=gnome-settings-daemon &
    \nName=GNOME Settings Daemon
    \nType=Service
    \nX-KDE-StartupNotify=false
    \nOnlyShowIn=KDE;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Once you create the file and save it, KDE will start the Gnome settings daemon everytime it starts.<\/p>\n

    Note: On some systems the autostart directory is located in the ~\/.kde4\/share\/autostart<\/em> folder. <\/p>\n

    Hope this helps.<\/p>\n

    Source of the tip: Tombuntu.com<\/a><\/p>\n

    – Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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