After installing about 15 Mb of stuff, and spending 2-3 hours faffing about with it, including numerous reboots and relogins, I am partway there GTK2 stuff is now OK, but GTK1 is not. But this really is a pretty unfriendly way to set this up, where you have to try various fixes just to get something that looks partway nice. My hypothesis is that Qt-GTK tie-in things haven't really been widely tested apart from with ThinKeramik, so that if you change the theme (eg to Plastik), something will break. I further hypothesise that GTK1 is even less tested than GTK2, so that even if the latter can be themed OK, the former may still use yukky GTK1 widgets. Thanks first of all to Randall Schulz for pointing me to Thomas Boerkel's site at http://www.boerkel.de/linuxtipps.html#mozTocId580997. I installed all the gnome-themes stuff off the CD, the Geramik theme, and also QTPixmap from apt (Packman's rpm) for good measure. Then I created the file ~/.no-qtrc-to-gtkrc-mapping, and the files ~/.gtkrc (with contents: include "/opt/gnome/share/themes/Geramik/gtk/gtkrc") and ~/.gtkrc-2.0 (with contents: include "/opt/gnome/share/themes/Geramik/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"), and rebooted, for good measure. However, this didn't work until I used the SuSE -> Applications -> GTK styles and fonts to manually set it to Geramik. Thereafter, changing the theme here worked OK on things like gftp, gimp and synaptic. So chalk one up here - I couldn't get this applet to work in 9.1. (In fact, to digress, the only way I could get GTK apps not to use Courier in 9.1 after changing to the Plastik theme was to add the following to /opt/gnome/share/themes/Qt/gtk-2.0/gtkrc: +++++ style "my-default-font" { font-name="Luxi Sans 10" } class "*" style "my-default-font" +++++ In that case the widgets were OK, but the fonts were wrong; here the fonts were OK, but the widgets were wrong!) However, I can't get these theme changes (namely, to Mist, which complements Plastik quite nicely) to apply to GTK1 (I presume) apps like YaST and LinCVS. I've tried all sorts of things, including copying the theme's gtk folder to /opt/gnome/share/themes/Qt, but no go. I suppose there is progress of sorts being made here, but it will be really nice when the GTK and QT theme interactions will be sorted out properly - at the minute it's hit and miss, and very frustrating. -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.kyfieithu.co.uk - Meddalwedd Rhydd yn Gymraeg www.cymrux.org.uk - Linux Cymraeg ar un CD!