IceWM: Themes

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## 15. Themes

Themes are used to configure the way how the window manager looks. Things like fonts, colors, border sizes, button pixmaps can be configured. Together these things form a theme.

Theme files are searched in the `libpath/themes` subdirectories.

These directories contain other directories that contain related theme files and their .xpm files. Each theme file specifies fonts, colors, border sizes, ...

The theme to use is specified using `Theme` configuration option or `-t` command line options in the preferences file.

Theme = "nice/default.theme"

  Name of the theme to use. Both the directory and theme file name must be specified.

If the theme directory contains a file named fonts.dir created my mkfontdir the theme directory is inserted into the X servers font search path.

http://icewm.themes.org/ contains various nice themes created by users of IceWM.

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