My User-Installed Themes Break in Super-User Mode

[smultronstallet]

I've noticed that the themes I've installed (as opposed to the ones that came default on the system) break apart to an ugly theme whenever I run an application in super-user mode (i.e. any administrative task). For instance, the Human theme works fine, but an altered Human version off of GNOME-Look.org breaks apart in su mode. Same thing happens with Murrine-based themes, too. The attached screenshot should give a better explanation. Any help to resolve this would be much appreciated.

[smultronstallet]

Figured it out. I had to manually install the new themes into /usr/share/themes/ rather than ~/.themes/
Not sure why it would act this way to begin with, but maybe this will help someone else having a similar problem.

[AlexC_]

Figured it out. I had to manually install the new themes into /usr/share/themes/ rather than ~/.themes/
Not sure why it would act this way to begin with, but maybe this will help someone else having a similar problem.

Thats because there a different themes set for each user. Root can have a different theme to you're normal User, and so to make sure when you run programs as root they have the same theme, you can do these commands in terminal:

sudo ln -s /home/USERNAME/.themes /root/.themes
sudo ln -s /home/USERNAME/.icons /root/.icons
sudo ln -s /home/USERNAME/.fonts /root/.fonts

Regards,

[smultronstallet]

Thats because there a different themes set for each user. Root can have a different theme to you're normal User, and so to make sure when you run programs as root they have the same theme, you can do these commands in terminal:

sudo ln -s /home/USERNAME/.themes /root/.themes
sudo ln -s /home/USERNAME/.icons /root/.icons
sudo ln -s /home/USERNAME/.fonts /root/.fonts

Thanks for the tip. Everything is running smoothly now.