This example will use the `Vertex theme <https://github.com/horst3180/Vertex-theme>`_.
Which contains an unoffensive dark theme and *mostly* uses the Pixbuf engine. Zips are on the releases page.
+*<installdir>* refers to the full path where HexChat is installed which by default is *C:\\Program Files\\HexChat*.
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1. Create the directory *<installdir>\\share\\themes\\vertex\\gtk-2.0*
2. Extract contents of *vertex-gtk\\gtk-2.0-dark\\* into this directory.
3. Create an empty file at *<installdir>\\etc\\gtk-2.0\\gtkrc* (with no file extension!)