the themes you installed are for openbox (title bar and borders), those can be changed with "obconf" (emerge it if you don't have it). lxappearance changes the gtk and icon themes. (gnome-themes, gtk-engines-* etc)
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Marcus Wanner <marc...@cox.net> wrote: > I installed lxde and am really liking it (stabilization soon? install went > without a hitch...). I also installed commonbox-styles because I didn't > really like the default theme, so I installed commonbox-themes and > commonbox-themes-extra. I opened lxappearance and tried to switch to one of > my shiny new themes, but there was still only the default one available. Am > I missing something here? I tried googleing, but didn't find anything > besides some irrelevant build logs. Rebooting did not produce any new themes > either... > > Thanks. > > Marcus > >