Gtk using ugly theme in KDE 4.8.1 on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 by Frank Lazzarini

I lately updated my laptop with the latest packages and I've got KDE 4.8.1 from the ppa. To my surprise all the gtk apps that I have installed look terrible, with the standard GTK look, apps like firefox/pidgin and so on. The default theme look was change from oxygen to clearlooks, which is the default in GTK2. I knew there was a little app called gtk-theme-switch2 to change the default look of gtk, which you have to install. So a simple apt-get install got me the thing and I changed the gtk theme to the gtk oxygen theme which looks just about awesome on Kde! If you experiencing the same thing, here is how you fix it.

sudo apt-get install gtk-theme-switch gtk2-engines-oxygen

Then start the it up and select oxygen-gtk and voila!


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