Mate 1.6 - cant set theme for root

[drcasper]

Hi,

After upgrade to MATE 1.6, I can not set theme for root. Synaptic is default gray. I tried by

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$ sudo mate-appearance-properties

but the setup is not applied to the apps started as sudo.

Any solutions, is this a bug?

[LinWinux]

Hmmmm, perhaps this has something to do with the lack of themes? After I installed Mint 15 with Mate there were only 2 default themes available for me. I had to install others to have more options and ultimately just ended up customizing one of the default themes for myself with the customize option. Check and see how many themes show up for you in Control Panel - Appearance ...

[Sr. J]

If your problem is that your user's theme and your root's theme are not the same (and it's ugly), it's because your root's folder doesn't contains the themes which were installed as user. You can solve it importing your user's themes by symbolic links:

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sudo ln -s ~/.themes /root/.themes
sudo ln -s ~/.icons /root/.icons
sudo ln -s ~/.fonts /root/.fonts

In this way, you can get the same theme configuration for "user" and "root".