I have a convertible notebook, and am writing a bash script to change from standard desktop to tablet mode. I am running XFCE.
Currently, the script is switching reading the orientation from a built-in accelerator on and off, but I want it to also switch the XFCE theme programmatically.
Apparently, xfce4-settings-manager
does not have any command line options to switch the theme, and gtk-theme-switcher2
does not apply options for the scrollbar – which is one of the things that are larger with the theme that I want to switch to.
Is there any way to do that from command line?
Best Answer
Try
xfconf-query
like thisWhere you can replace
Greybird
with the name of your theme. With quotes if it's not a single word, so e.g. "Ambiance-XFCE-LXDE-Yellow" must be also in quotes.Now if what you want is to change only some parts of your current theme, not switching to a different theme altogether, then this won't help. In that case I would suggest making multiple copies of your theme, naming them "My Neat Theme 1" "My neat Theme 2" and so on; make the modifications on each one, for each particular need and finally just switch between those themes using
xfconf-query
.