Hi Stefan, Your tips got me started and finally I got at least the gtk 1.x thing figured out.
It's actually quite simple, but has a small bug (at least the way I did it, maybe there is a simpler and better way) That's the way I did it: 1. install themes that support gtk 1 (search for gtk-engines) and the matching gtk2 themes (search for gtk2-engines) - Industrial is the one I wanted. 2. install gtk-theme-switch (comes in two flavors: gtk-theme switch is the one I wanted, gkt-theme-switch2 is the one for gnome 2) 3. use gtk-theme-switch - it will write a line in .gtkrc in ~. Which will nevertheless be ignored by the gtk 1.x apps. The line belongs into "~/.gtkrc.mine" which will be loaded by ~/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 - which, as it seems, is the replacement for .gtkrc if gnome2 is used. thank you Pascal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]