Whenever xfsettingsd is running, some X settings, including GTK preferences specified in ~/.gtkrc-2.0, are overwritten by XFCE settings. This is not properly explained in the Settings Daemon documentation. The closest is: - A note in the docs FAQ for the specific case of the accelerators - A screenshot in the Settings Editor section showing the Gtk settings Please, add a note to the Settings Daemon documentation ( http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/xfsettingsd ) explaining this behaviour. For instance: <quote> The Settings Daemon, when running, overwrites settings in other desktop components (like GTK+ and X) through the XSETTINGS specification, with its own XFCE settings. This means, for instance, that GTK preferences specified in ~/gtkrc-2.0 are ignored in favour of the XFCE settings. You can set these with the Settings Editor (xfce4-settings-editor) in the "xsettings" section. For instance, the GTK+ key theme must be changed in xsettings->Gtk->KeyThemeName. </quote> Please feel free to complete or correct this description with anything more accurate. I am reporting to wiki component since there's no docs component in bugzilla. I understand these docs get distributed with XFCE (at least they do in Debian). Thank you, for this and for your work in XFCE.
Just for the record, this behaviour annoys the unknowing user and it's not obvious at all.
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