## Submitted by José Luis González Assigned to **Mike Massonnet** **[Link to original bug (#10102)](https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10102)** ## Description Whenever xfsettingsd is running, some X settings, including GTK preferences specified in ~/.gtkrc-2.0, are overwritten by XFCE settings. This is not properly explained in the Settings Daemon documentation. The closest is: - A note in the docs FAQ for the specific case of the accelerators - A screenshot in the Settings Editor section showing the Gtk settings Please, add a note to the Settings Daemon documentation ( http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/xfsettingsd ) explaining this behaviour. For instance: `<quote>` The Settings Daemon, when running, overwrites settings in other desktop components (like GTK+ and X) through the XSETTINGS specification, with its own XFCE settings. This means, for instance, that GTK preferences specified in ~/gtkrc-2.0 are ignored in favour of the XFCE settings. You can set these with the Settings Editor (xfce4-settings-editor) in the "xsettings" section. For instance, the GTK+ key theme must be changed in xsettings->Gtk->KeyThemeName. `</quote>` Please feel free to complete or correct this description with anything more accurate. I am reporting to wiki component since there's no docs component in bugzilla. I understand these docs get distributed with XFCE (at least they do in Debian). Thank you, for this and for your work in XFCE.