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gnome-terminal ignores gtk theme

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I run oneiric with fluxbox as the window manager, and gnome-terminal appears to disregard gtk theme. The theme support does work in other gtk applications (for example, in gthumb and in firefox), but changing the theme makes no difference for gnome-terminal. I have oneiric, and I use lxappearance to change the theme. Am I wrong in assuming that gnome-terminal is a gtk application? Or is the problem elsewhere?

Note that the checkbox "Use colours from system theme" in gnome-terminal configuration does not solve the problem, nor it is supposed to, since I am interested in the look and size of the menu, and the tabs, not their colour. ]

LXAppearance version is 0.5.1, and so it appears that it is GTK3 compatible. It even creates the file gtk-3.0/settings.ini in the home directory which contains the selected settings. This, I think, rules out http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631897 as a possible cause.

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answered 1 Year ago ranquctive · Accepted Answer

LXAppearance is the culprit after all. See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=125540

I tried copying the configuration file created by it to .config/gtk-3.0. After restarting gnome-terminal, the menus disappeared completely (or to be precisely everything is nearly zero-sized, and there is text). After commenting the .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini line-by-line the culprit is gtk-font-name. Anyhow, this proves that gnome-terminal is a GTK3 app which does read the settings.

Solution was to install gnome-themes-standard and edit .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini to say "gtk-theme-name=Adwaita" (it is the only theme in the package, but it suits me fine).

Final remark: confusingly in the directory /usr/share/themes many themes have gtk-3.0 subfolder without being GTK3 themes. I hope it is of help to someone.