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How To Change Your Themes In Linux DistroTube

How To Change Your Themes In Linux DistroTube

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How To Change Your Themes In Linux DistroTube Since so many viewers of the channel are trying out minimal Linux distributions (like Arch Linux) and installing window managers on top of that, one of the common questions I get is what programs do I need to install to be able to change my program's themes?
Date: 2022-03-30

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Does anyone know why a terminal would be acting up(displaying extra tab spaces on autocomplete, etc) for every zsh prompt that I-ve installed? I tried a custom one, spaceship, and starship but they all have the same issues. The strange thing is that as soon as I comment out the PS1 value it works perfectly. So basically it seems to be a formatting error where the prompt is trying to read some information that is unreadable but what are the odds of that happening to two different prompt theme managers(spaceship and starship) at the exact same time?
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Hey DT, there is a window manager written in rust called -penrose-. It doesn't have a config file and because rust is a compiled language, you have to compile it so it is similar to dwm in that case but you don't change the source directly so there is no hassle of conflicting patches, you use the provided libraries(?) to write your own twm similar to you do in qtile and xmonad. Maybe you might be interested in an have a look. AFAIK it is pretty new and it might not be very stable though.
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What ??? having to restart an app for theme change to kick in ? Now that's a blast from the past. Painful. Any modern system responds to a change theme signal, so apps change theme without restart instantly.
I had forgotten what i's like living in stone ages with ancient window managers or is it an Xmonad special :D. No thanks, not any more. :)

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I use base16-universal-manager. It can automagically apply a theme to all your programs, even a window manager like swaywm, based on the configs you provide, for everything that there is a base16 template for. From solarized over dracula and nord to gruv, you'll definitely find a base16 theme you like, and you can always change them on the spot!
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Thank you dt, i have both lxappearance and qt5ct on my (debian) system and it bugs the heck out of me to get virtualbox look somewhat right to the dark gtk theme i use. So kvantum is not perfekt but wayy better than the blinding white of vbox before. Is there a qt theme out there that matches arc-dark?
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Please make a video on MX Linux running inside Virtualbox. MX uses Fluxbox and XFCE4. Fluxbox is a nice GUI because you don't have to rely either on GTK+ or QT. It's built on top of libx11, written in C++ and libx11 is the only dependency I believe.
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You can set your Qt themes with Kvantum. Kvantum is a SVG-based theme engine, and there are some kvantum themes that mimics GTK themes, so you can set the -same- theme on both engines and achieve a consistent desktop look.
Search more about it!

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Thank you DT, when I started using Openbox I knew about lxappearance but didn't know some programs used GTK while others used Qt so I was confused why programs like Dolphin-Emulator were sticking out like a sore thumb.
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I love Plasma desktop's amazing integration of GTK apps into the desktop. There are settings to change only GTK theme built into the plasma settings and by default they use the Breeze default theme just like the QT apps
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Another tip, use kvantum for QT theming. You can set the style in qt5ct to -kvantum- and make edits in kvantum concerning transparency, menu icons, compositing, etc. It also gives you access to more QT themes.
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