LXAppearance2 - The most powerful Gnome-free GTK+ theme selector

[PCMan]

In gnome, you can change the look and feel by using the gnome-appearance-properties. However, if you want to do the same outside gnome, the options are editing gtkrc-2.0 file manually or to use a gtk theme switcher. LXAppearance used to be one of these tools. However, now it becomes one of the most feature-rich complete solutions for a Gnome-free environment.

Let's see some screenshots:










Later, LXAppearance2 will replace LXAppearance and move to lxappearance git repository.

Main features of LXApppearance2:

1. Depends on gtk+ only. Can work completely without gnome.
2. Friendly and Gnome HIG compliant user interface
3. Provides real-time preview of the selected themes
4. Changes icon theme
5. Changes cursor theme in a almost desktop independent way.
6. Supports color schemes. You can change the color used by themes if the themes support gtk color scheme.
7. Able to install/remove icon and cursor themes in a user-friendly way
8. Provides additional options for gtk toolbars
9. Able to turn off event sound provided by libcanberra-gtk-module.
10. Changes default font used by gtk+ applications
11. Although this is a LXDE component, it works perfectly well outside LXDE and it has no LXDE dependencies.

To get the latest source code in development:

git clone git://lxde.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/lxde/lxappearance2

(This repo will become invalid once the code is moved to master branch of the original lxappearance repo.)

If you’re a happy user and you want to donate, my PayPal account is pcman.tw@gmail.com.

Please get it heavily tested and give some feedbacks. Patches is also welcomed.
Cheers!

[Tibuda]

Nice. I use LXAppearance on Openbox. Thanks for the work, this new version looks amazing.

Something I miss, and I don't see on this new version, is a box to hide icons from buttons and menus. This is what I have on my ~/.gtkrc-2.0.mine:

gtk-button-images=0
gtk-menu-images=0

[nerdy_kid]

vs kde's appearance and colors modules...no thanks

[Tibuda]

vs kde's appearance and colors modules...no thanks

that's gnome-free too

[kerry_s]

thats great. now if you can give lxlauncher some love, i'd be really happy. all it needs is a transparent background instead of that blue color, so it can show what ever wallpaper or color set as the background. it could use a menu editor, like gnomes main menu editor, but that's not as important.

[Lucradia]

Last time I used LXappearance, I changed my looks successfully, but couldn't change the icons, so I had to edit the gtkrc-mine file directly, manually each time I changed the theme.

[PCMan]

Last time I used LXappearance, I changed my looks successfully, but couldn't change the icons, so I had to edit the gtkrc-mine file directly, manually each time I changed the theme.

If you edited gtkrc.mine file to set your icon theme, then things won't work. Your customized values will overwrite what's set by lxappearance in .gtkrc-2.0.

Please try it again. I rewrote every bit of lxappearance and focused on correctness this time. If things still don't work, I'll help you track it down.

[PCMan]

Nice. I use LXAppearance on Openbox. Thanks for the work, this new version looks amazing.

Something I miss, and I don't see on this new version, is a box to hide icons from buttons and menus. This is what I have on my ~/.gtkrc-2.0.mine:

gtk-button-images=0
gtk-menu-images=0

Thanks. This has been done about three minutes ago. Please update from git to get it.

[Spice Weasel]

Thanks for this, I've been following LXDE a lot lately and I love LXAppearance and PCManFM. It's a great desktop environment, one thing that's stopping me from switching over though is the panel.. The config utility for it is just a pain to use.

I'm looking forward to this replacing LXAppearance, especially since most distributions mouse cursors are complicated to change without GNOME (yeah, yeah, I know update-alternatives, but that doesn't list all available options.)

[Warpnow]

That looks almost identical to the the appear setting menu in xfce.