Variant I. If you don’t use GNOME, but want to change the appearance of GTK+-applications, follow theese steps.

The per-user settings are stored in $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0, the system-wide settings in /etc/gtkrc-2.0. To change them, simply append (or modify the entries).

I. change the theme (use folder-name as value):

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gtk-theme-name="Clearlooks"

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II. change the icon-theme:

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gtk-icon-theme-name="gnome"

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III. change the cursor (not all windowmanager support on-the-fly changing):

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gtk-cursor-theme-name="default"

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IV. change the font:

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gtk-font-name="Arial"

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Of course that’s not all. There are much more options, check the documentation. If you don’t want to manually do that, you may use applications like LXAppearance or GNOME-Color-Chooser.

Have Fun.

The german version of this article has been released on ProLinux.

(The upcoming Variant II will introduce the XSettingsD)