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I use Lubuntu 12.04 and a gtk2 theme, Elegant Arch.

With such a theme, gtk2 applications like Thunar will be themed, while others like Nautilus, would be not (see this question ant the images there).

Because I wanted to theme gtk3 applications like Nautilus, Audacious etc., I have copied the "gtk-3" folder from the main folder of a gtk3 theme into the main folder of my Elegant arch theme, which is in home/username/themes. Using the gtk3 folder from this full flat theme I got a pretty similar look in gtk2 and gtk 3 apps.

Lubuntu Desktop Center, Ubuntu Desktop Center, Network Options and other such apps are now themed (before they were not). Even Update Manager is.

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But why is Synaptic Manager not themed?

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The application you are opening is one that needs root privileges. You could also link the files to use them:

sudo ln -s ~/.themes /root/.themes
sudo ln -s ~/.icons /root/.icons
sudo ln -s ~/.fonts /root/.fonts
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I'm using LXAppearance to change themes on i3wm. You have to open LXAppearance as root and apply a theme to change the theme of applications that run as root.

This will change that ugly Raleigh theme that the Synaptic Package Manager is using.

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It looks like Synaptic Manager is a gtk2 application. So, all this has nothing to do with theming gtk3 apps.

But in order to use a theme for Synaptic, that theme has to be put in /usr/share/themes.

I figured where to put the theme by the fact that the lubuntu-default theme, which has gtk2+3 support and had themed Synaptic, was in /usr/share/themes, while Elegant Arch theme was in ~/.themes. Also, Synaptic uses gtk2: when I put Elegant Arch theme (with the gtk3 folder of the full flat theme inside) into /usr/share/themes, Synaptic takes the theming of Elegant Arch.

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