GTK issues

[ProtoJazz]

I was able to get GTK themes working kind of.

It looks perfect if I run the program as superuser, but all broken and half themed as normal

Normal
http://imageshack.us/f/201/nonsudogtk.png/

Sudo
http://imageshack.us/f/440/sudogtk.png/

I dont think just running ff and thunderbird as su will work, it deletes most of my data when I do. Why doesnt it work normal though?
Been using mint for about a month now and really like it, but this just has be stumped

[GeneC]

Did you put your theme (as root) in usr/share/themes?
If only in Home/.themes you will have that problem.

[ProtoJazz]

It was only in usr/share/themes, I tried with it just in my home/.themes, and it did nothing at all, then in both and its the same result as when it was just in usr, No idea why it will only run it if I launch the program as root though..
Most things either work all the way, or break all the way.

[ProtoJazz]

Cool. I figured it out, It was a KDE issue. If I had understod more about how sudo works I would have figured it out faster. root isnt bound to the same user rules you set (or in this case the default).
I found a thread where someone was having issues in KDE with GTK themes, and one of the replys was

In a terminal, run the following two commands, and paste the output here.

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echo $GTK_PATH
echo $GTK2_RC_FILES



You can use Konsole to do this.

so I did it, and the GTK2 one pointed to a file, so I decided to look for it and open it. Inside was a note

# If you do not want KDE to override your GTK settings, select
# Appearance -> Colors in the System Settings and disable the checkbox
# "Apply colors to non-KDE4 applications"

So I disabled the check box, and everything works as it should. Fairly easy fix, but the KDE settings area is a bit confusing, and pretty big.