On Sunday June 20 2010 15:04:31 Christian Jann wrote: > On Sun June 20 2010 13:47:59 Dj YB wrote: > > hello, > > > > I have this little problem, I like a specific color scheme but > > unfortunately it's not suitable for all applications. > > for example Kmail and Kontact in general looks great with it but > > OpenOffice apps are unusable, can't see a thing. > > so my question is if and how can I exclude an application from the color > > scheme or perhaps apply to it specifically a different color scheme. > > try this: > [user at lhost ~]$ GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc > ooffice -writer > > If you want to use this in a launcher or menu, rather than the terminal, > try the following: > bash -c 'GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc ooffice - > writer' thanks, I figured out from what you wrote to do the following: "System Settings"->"Appearance"->"GTK+ Appearance"->set "Widget style" to "Clearlooks". YB.