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Created November 1, 2024 15:11
X11 GTK Theme and Cursor Theme, in a window manager

I daily drive XMonad on my Arch linux distro. For like 7 months, I had no idea how to change the GTK themes & cursor themes without using programs like lxappearance Even when I used lxappearance, it was very buggy and a bad experience in general. I will be explaining how to do all that with minimal dependencies.

Set the GTK Theme

I am assumiming that you use .xinitrc to login, even if you don't you can still follow along. All GTK applications get their theme from an environment variable GTK_THEME. You can just add a line in your .xinitrc

export GTK_THEME=catppuccin-frappe-lavender-standard+default   # This is the line
exec xmonad