How do I change the default XFCE theme?

[Lend27]

I tried adding the theme I want to the /usr/share/themes folder but when I select it in "Appearance" it doesn't change.


Is there another way?


Thanks!
Len

[mithat]

I want to bump this issue.

On my paintitblack system, I installed a bunch of Xfce styles from the repos (gtk2-engines-xfce and gtk3-engines-xfce IIRC), and when I select one of them via Xfce's Appearances setting tool (e.g., to Xfce flat), only some (or possibly none?) of the style settings are honored. The panel color is wrong, the button shapes are wrong, etc.

I installed LXAppearance to force the creation of a .gtkrc-2.0 with the style settings to see if that would change anything, and it didn't.

Is siduction doing something to override user-specified GTK themes? Or excluding something that's needed to honor them?

[Gabriel_M]

Try this:
To install new themes, download a package from siduction or from theme sites like xfce-look.org.
When you download a theme tarball from a website, you can install it by dragging the file from the file manager and dropping it in the list of styles into the Appearance preference tool tab controls .
As with Styles, you can install new icon themes simply by dropping an icon tarball onto the list.
To generate a cache file for an icon-theme, run the following command in a terminal emulator:

gtk-update-icon-cache /path/to/theme/directory/