Change Pidgin theme on Windows
I’m using Pidgin v2.7 and Windows XP. I’ve tried most of the methods flying on the internet about changing themes for Pidgin, but none of them works. These include using the gtkthemeselector.exe. I noticed the latest Pidgin using a “%APPDATA%\.purple\gtkrc-2.0″ to control the look and feel once the “GTK+ theme control” plugin is enabled. The contents of this file look very similar to the contents of the theme files under “c:\program files\common files\gtk\2.0\share\themes\***\gtk-2.0\gtkrc”. I tried to copy the contents of gtkrc file of the “Clearlooks-DarkLime” theme and pasted them to the “%APPDATA%\.purple\gtkrc-2.0″. After restarting Pidgin, I saw this 
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