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+#!/usr/bin/env python2
+"""
+Small Python 2 script to reload GTK2 themes.
+
+This uses Python2 since this requires 'send_clientmessage_toall()'
+which isn't available in Python 3.
+
+Original source: https://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=39646
+"""
+import gtk
+
+
+def gtk_reload():
+    """Reload GTK2 themes."""
+    events = gtk.gdk.Event(gtk.gdk.CLIENT_EVENT)
+    data = gtk.gdk.atom_intern("_GTK_READ_RCFILES", False)
+    events.data_format = 8
+    events.send_event = True
+    events.message_type = data
+    events.send_clientmessage_toall()
+
+
+gtk_reload()