Ok, so I am not understanding how XFCE customization works.
Lets look at this theme - https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1692847
Should be light grey-ish, right?
On my system it looks like this -
Why?
How do I get it to show correctly?
This system is running Arch, not EOS if that matters.
Thanks in advance for any help.
@temetka,
Having extracted the downloaded Relax-Light-GTK.tar.gz theme you may move it to
~/.themes
or for all users to
/usr/share/themes/
I tested in EnOS only. Not clear for me you see as an option, but fails to work (?)
Do you have another DE or appearance settings manager installed?
Like Cinnamon, for instance, which can tell apps to try to use a dark theme when possible.
Also, I noticed that the theme used as an example doesnât have a âxfwm4â folder. This may be a compatibility issue.
@eso Were you also using Xfce when testing the theme or a different session?
@anon93652015 I installed EnOS XFCE onto an external SSD partition just for @temetka.
Nope.
My goal was to get the light theme working.
For some reason it turns dark and I donât know where to change it.
forgive my english⌠theme for plasma not for xfce, i just show basic . it no one click set all on xfce .
@temetka
Press Super/(with the w Logo) and type Appearance
Meanwhile I installed Arch-XFCE
Did the following in terminal:
sudo pacman -S archlinux-keyring
sudo pacman -Syu
[https://itsfoss.com/install-yay-arch-linux/](https://itsfoss.com/install-yay-arch-linux/)
yay -S ocs-url
then selected Install on https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1692847
and answered the questions
It works. Even the taskbar is light.
Mr bond
op prob have most install ! may only be miss
qt5-quickcontrols
EDit. 
no understand why install AUR pkg for last update git of 5year. for install theme that made for plasma ( really ) it have gtk elements that function (basic level ) on xfce .
your other post have same out come âŚ
So I do have it in my ~/.themes folder
So one of the first things I do on either Arch or EndeavorOS after the base OS is installed is to install yay, then ocs-url.
That is how I got the theme installed in the first place.
installed qt5-quickcontrols
no change
rebooted
no change
@eso - why did you recommend a plasma theme when I am trying to troubleshoot XFCE?
@shjim - I am not understanding what you mean.
@temetka, It was not me who recommended you a plasma theme.
What I do recommend: create a new user
sudo useradd -m testuser
sudo passwd testuser
logout and login as testuser
Install the theme again
and check these Appearance settings
I think the issue may have been with the theme itself.
I switched to a different one which works fine.
Iâm not a programmer but somehow this came to my mind:
http://wiki.c2.com/?LazinessImpatienceHubris
Now I am just lost.
Setting up a decent looking XFCE config shouldnât be this hard.
I have downloaded 37 themes today.
Not one of them looks like the screenshots.
Either the taskbar doesnât change color, or the highlight color on menuâs and whatnot is just wrong.
This system is a fresh install of EOS w/ XFCE instead of the standard KDE. It has been installed for 2 days only.
My settings menu only shows appearance and window manager tweaks where I can make any kind of noticeable change to the UI.
On the off chance that something got installed wrong / corrupted - I have made sure everything is up to date.
Perhaps I just donât know what I need to do in order to get themes working. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. I really want to like XFCE, but I canât be spending hours trying to figure out why my task bar is dark on a light theme and I canât read the text on the labels for running programs. Iâm just baffled.
Have you tried any of the themes from the AUR? Iâm currently using catppuccin-gtk-theme-mocha, which includes everything you need. While I canât be certain as to why the screenshots donât match what youâre seeing, itâs important to have an xfwm4 theme that matches the main theme (in Settings â Window Manager â Style.
@temetka
âNomen est omenâ I started to watch this video (mute the audio if pronunciation annoys) and from pling.com downloaded BaZik Gtk3/4 theme
For me â as opposed to these catppuccin-gtk* above â
BaZik Light Blue seems to work.