Change GTK themes on the fly

Question

I'm not running xfce4 or gnome, so I can't use their respective settings manager.

Now I want to alter the GTK theme of all running apps, do you think that's possible? I think there's a signal or whatever can do that, but I couldn't find one.

Any ideas? It should works for both gtk2 and gtk3 apps.

You can't change theme for running application, you should restart it. — Eddy_Em, Mar 14 '13 at 05:44
@Eddy_Em hmm, but xfce4-settings-manager can do that, am I wrong? — daisy, Mar 14 '13 at 06:08
In gtk2 there were some functions, capable of rereading .rc files with themes, but I don't know, how to invoke them: http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/gtk/gtk-Resource-Files.html#gtk-rc-reparse-all. — Boris Burkov, May 15 '13 at 21:06

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 14 '13 at 17:33

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You might try gtk-theme-switch2. It's a command-line utility that will apply whichever theme you tell it to; it also comes with a GUI if necessary:

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edited Mar 14 '13 at 17:33

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