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@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ Cursor themes can be set in GTK for now, but a better solution in the future is
 
 If you only care about your GTK theme, you can export the `GTK_THEME` environment variable before running your GTK programs. While this is quite simple, it's also fairly limited, since there are no environment variables to set other settings, like icon/cursor themes.
 
+This also may cause issues with applications reading the theme from `GtkSettings` as this is a development environment variable and does not change that value.
+
 ### Setting values in `gsettings`
 
 The proper workaround is to call `gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface <key> <value>` yourself at any point before starting any GTK program, for each setting that you want set. A good place to do so is either your shell's rc files, or using `exec` in your sway config.