GTK theme not applied in Firefox/Thunderbird 1.5

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Indigo 23 wrote:
> I am just wondering if anyone knows how to fix this problem....Ever
> since I upgraded to Gnome 2.16, the GTK themes that I've tried don't
> apply in Firefox/Thunderbird 1.5 like they used to when I was using
> Gnome 2.14....Is this a known issue? Are there any workarounds?  I
> really dislike the default GTK look.
> 
> Thanks.

I had to edit my ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file and change references to /usr/X11R6 
to /usr/local. (Assuming you're using the default theme under 
tools/themes in Firefox/Thunderbird).

HTH

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