This might be a dumb question but I can’t find a solution for this.
As an example, if I run nautilus it show with the default light theme. If run ‘sudo nautilus’ it will run with my dark GTK theme that I have set in lxappearance.
- What is your DE?
- How did you set the theme?
- What is the theme name?
- If can please give more details on what you did to set theme.
I use i3 wm (I did not install i3 from calamares installer, I installed it manually.)
I set my theme using lxappearance
My theme is arc-dark
I launched appearance with dmenu but it said it needs root permissions. I ran the program from my terminal with ‘sudo lxappearance’ I clicked on arc-dark (a theme I installed with the command on the GTK article on the ArchWiki. Everything including lxappearance only uses this theme if I run theme with sudo in the terminal. Please tell me what I might’ve done wrong or just tell me what the best way to install gtk themes is. thx.
Also I like your profile picture 
Can you run ‘lxappearance’ in a terminal without ‘sudo’?
I just did this myself, as I have an app that blinds me in it’s normal theme. I downloaded lxapperance-gtk3, ran it from a shell. Selected Arc-Dark (just like you). Ran my app, and it appears in the theme.
Another shot, maybe grab the neofetch package, and run it. You’ll see a Theme: entry in the stats. If it says Arc-Dark there or after you run lxappearance. If it says Arc-Dark and launching Nautilius is still light, that’d be puzzling.
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Oh wow, thanks that actually worked. Thanks.
will create gtk config for user root 
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