The theming on my system has stopped working for some applications. It seems like the reason being that the environment variable, located in /etc/environment is no longer being used.
Now, using cli, I can set $ export GTK_THEME=Arc-Dark manually, before opening these applications, and all is good. However, if I start the applications from outside cli, for example via dmenu, the theme is not applied.
Does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong here?
Starting pamac-manager from dmenu, the GTK_THEME value is not used.
Starting pamac-manager from cli, the GTK_THEME value is correctly used.
Thanks, @anon89812132. I didn’t think you had to use export in /etc/environment. As well, it worked without earlier. However, I will try this and report back later on.
Please guys, don’t get bugged about doesn’t need … How many things you don’t need yet you can have them, and of course, ideally, are not deleterious?
Something else might be in home .profile or .bash_profile, and by mentioning to try that export on other posible places could revel something, reason why i mentioned them
and since in current state is not working, you should focus there, not on my not needed export …
Thanks, @LordTermor and @anon89812132. Appreciate the feedback. I’ve still not figured out what is happening. Below is the content from the different mentioned files and directories. Maybe something is overriding the value set in /etc/environment, but can’t see what is doing that. Since I can’t see someone else having this issue, it seems to be a system specific issue.
$ less /etc/environment
#
# This file is parsed by pam_env module
#
# Syntax: simple "KEY=VAL" pairs on separate lines
#
SPIDEROAKONEDATADIR=/media/drive3/cache/spiderOakOne
GTK_THEME=Arc-Dark
NNN_OPENER=xdg-open
NNN_PLUG='d:dragdrop;f:finder;j:autojump;o:organize;u:dups;x:_trash-put $nnn*'
NNN_TRASH=1
$ grep -i ‘GTK_THEME’ /etc/profile.d/* >> returns no result
$ ls -al /etc/profile.d
total 60
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 16 07:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 107 root root 12288 May 10 16:48 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 545 Mar 31 22:24 freetype2.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1107 Oct 29 2021 gawk.csh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 757 Oct 29 2021 gawk.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 105 Aug 31 2021 gpm.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37 Dec 18 14:21 home-local-bin.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191 Mar 31 14:37 libreoffice-fresh.csh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191 Mar 31 14:37 libreoffice-fresh.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 766 Dec 18 14:21 locale.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 468 Mar 27 09:11 perlbin.csh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 464 Mar 27 09:11 perlbin.sh
$ less /etc/profile
# /etc/profile
# Set our umask
umask 022
# Append "$1" to $PATH when not already in.
# This function API is accessible to scripts in /etc/profile.d
append_path () {
case ":$PATH:" in
*:"$1":*)
;;
*)
PATH="${PATH:+$PATH:}$1"
esac
}
# Append our default paths
append_path '/usr/local/sbin'
append_path '/usr/local/bin'
append_path '/usr/bin'
# Force PATH to be environment
export PATH
# Load profiles from /etc/profile.d
if test -d /etc/profile.d/; then
for profile in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
test -r "$profile" && . "$profile"
done
unset profile
fi
# Unload our profile API functions
unset -f append_path
# Source global bash config, when interactive but not posix or sh mode
if test "$BASH" &&\
test "$PS1" &&\
test -z "$POSIXLY_CORRECT" &&\
test "${0#-}" != sh &&\
test -r /etc/bash.bashrc
then
. /etc/bash.bashrc
fi
# Termcap is outdated, old, and crusty, kill it.
unset TERMCAP
# Man is much better than us at figuring this out
unset MANPATH
$ less ~/.profile
export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME="qt5ct"
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano
export GTK2_RC_FILES="$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0"
# fix "xdg-open fork-bomb" export your preferred browser from here
export BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox
