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==Window Theming= | =Window Title Bar Theming= | ||
The window title bars are drawn onto your screen by the window manager you use. The default window manager of LXQt is Openbox. | |||
The Openbox configuration tool can be opened: Start Menu --> Settings --> Openbox Settings | |||
If you lack the Openbox configuration tool, please install it: | |||
sudo pacman -S obconf | |||
Please choose your preferred window title bar theme from there. Additional theme can be downloaded. An attractive dark theme is: | |||
yaourt -S mediterraneannight-theme | |||
Alternatively, follow this guide to install a more modern window manager with higher hardware resources: [[LXQt with kwin]] | |||
=Window Content Theming= | |||
This section is about theming the content of you windows. Especially the background and font colors, but also the form of menus and buttons. | |||
If you’d like to have a unified theme for all your GTK2/3/Openbox and Qt4/5 applications and be able to customise them: | If you’d like to have a unified theme for all your GTK2/3/Openbox and Qt4/5 applications and be able to customise them: | ||
===1.=== | |||
Choose <code>GTK+</code> in <code>lxqt-config</code> (LXQt Configuration Center --> LXQt Appearance) | |||
===2.=== | |||
Install the LXDE theme switcher: | |||
sudo pacman -S lxappearance | |||
Open it by clicking on: Start Menu --> Settings --> Appearance. | |||
Unfortunately, this functionality is not implemented in LXQt yet. | |||
===3.=== | |||
Install well maintained themes supporting [http://gnome-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=167 GTK2/3] and [http://box-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=7402 Openbox] | |||
An attractive e.g. dark theme is | |||
yaourt -S vertex-themes | |||
===4.=== | |||
Edit manually the theme files to further customise if you like. | |||
For a pure Qt4/5 system you don’t have really an option to choose a preset or customise the default one. You may use the default <code>fusion</code> and wait either for <code>qtcurve</code> or for <code>vitality</code> (<code>bespin</code> developer’s new creation) to have a config tool. Or another generous soul may create a qtconfig-qt5 in the mean time. | For a pure Qt4/5 system you don’t have really an option to choose a preset or customise the default one. You may use the default <code>fusion</code> and wait either for <code>qtcurve</code> or for <code>vitality</code> (<code>bespin</code> developer’s new creation) to have a config tool. Or another generous soul may create a qtconfig-qt5 in the mean time. | ||
==Change Icons of Applications and System Settings | =Panel Theming= | ||
Panel theming is available via the LXQt Configuration Center --> LXQt Appearance --> LXQt Theme | |||
Additionally there are more themes available for download in the [https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?board=20.0 Manjaro LXQt subforum]. | |||
All Theme folders need to be unpacked into the following directory: | |||
/usr/share/lxqt/themes/ | |||
Attention: Some themes do not fully work. Please read the comments about the recommended usage. | |||
===Example:=== | |||
Please look at [https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=18058.msg165462#msg165462 this] Chrome theme. | |||
The downloaded folder needs to be unpacked and moved into the right location mentioned above. The final path to the "chrome" folder has to be | |||
/usr/share/lxqt/themes/chrome/ | |||
=Change Icons of Applications and System Settings= | |||
The path of icons is saven in <code>.desktop</code> files. For each application you can find their corresponding <code>.desktop</code> files in one of these locations: | The path of icons is saven in <code>.desktop</code> files. For each application you can find their corresponding <code>.desktop</code> files in one of these locations: | ||
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=Change Order of Icons on Panel= | |||
You can click the right mouse button on top of a panel element in order to move it. Alternatively, you can move panel elements by holding CTRL+Left Mouse and draging the element. If you want to do it manually by editing files, do the following: | You can click the right mouse button on top of a panel element in order to move it. Alternatively, you can move panel elements by holding CTRL+Left Mouse and draging the element. If you want to do it manually by editing files, do the following: | ||
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=Change Icon of Start Menu / Mainmenu= | |||
This Icon can be changed by opening the following folder with root privileges: | This Icon can be changed by opening the following folder with root privileges: | ||
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killall lxqt-panel | killall lxqt-panel | ||
lxqt-panel | lxqt-panel | ||
=Links= | |||
You can read more about LXQt in the Manjaro Wiki [https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Desktop_Environments#LXQt here]. | |||