A good theme to be using with Mendeley is Ambiance. NOTE: To get the name of the theme that you are currently using, type gsettings get gtk-theme in a terminal. $MENDELEY_GTK_THEME is the name of the theme you'd like to use with Mendeley.$CURRENT_GTK_THEME is the name of the GTK theme you are currently using.$MENDELEY_FOLDER is the Mendeley folder,.I finally managed to get it done, although it feels a bit clunky.

desktop file overwritten at each call would include the modified Exec=env GTK_THEME. What I did so far was to edit bin/install-mendeley-link-handler.sh so that the. This sktop file is created/overwritten in $HOME/.local/share/applications.The sktop file (which allows having an icon in the Unity launcher) is overwritten by bin/install-mendeley-link-handler.sh each time bin/mendeleydesktop is called.The actual binary is in lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/mendeleydesktop.x86_64 (for Ubuntu 64 bits) but cannot be called directly because it requires environment variables defined by the python script bin/mendeleydesktop.It comes as a standalone package with its own bin and share and lib folders and it uses Qt.The special things about Mendeley desktop UI on Ubuntu (Trusty Tahr 14.04, Mendeley UI v1.14 in my case) are: share/my_stubborn_app.desktop by altering the EXEC line: Exec=env GTK_THEME=MyFancyTheme /path/to/my_stubborn_app %u Should override the default GTK theme for the current user, and that permanent theme changes can be integrated in the. They both basically say that calling an executable like so $ GTK_THEME=MyFancyTheme my_stubborn_app The two relevant sources of information I'm using are here and here. The reason I want to do this is because I am using a dark theme, and that Mendeley is unreadable (dark font on dark bg) with this theme. I've been trying for a while to set the GTK theme of the Mendeley desktop UI, without success.

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