How to have a good looking Synaptic with triskel?

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oysterboy

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Hi -

KDE is now my preferred desktop. GTK programs are properly themed in general, but I have a problem with synaptic which I still use for fine-tuned package management. If I launch it with a regular user, it looks good (but this is useless of course). If I launch it as root, it's not properly themed and looks ugly.

$ synaptic -> looks good
$ sudo synaptic -> looks ugly

What can I do to so that the right theme (I believe it is oxygen) is used by applications launched with root privileges?

oysterboy

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Sorry the second line should have been:

$ gksudo synaptic

Legimet
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You can use muon, an advanced package manager for KDE. No need to run it with kdesudo because it requests your password when needed.

Or symlink /root/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4 to /root/.gtkrc-2.0 and GTK+ applications will look good as root.

oysterboy

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Thanks Legimet; problem solved by copying those two files to the root folder :).