Can the Mate Theming be brought to other WM's?

I love the default Ubuntu Mate theming, I think the team has done a great job in creating an appealing default theme. I have been trying a tiling window manager, herbstluftwm, because all the cool kids seem to be talking about i3 and the other tiling wm's. When I log into herbstluftwm my app theming of Mate apps like caja, terminal, and others don't seem to carry over on the same machine as you can see in the screenshot below showing caja and terminal.

  • Is there a way to easily bringing the app theming into herbstluftwm?
  • I have tried changing some of the app theming offered by the app like the options that mate-terminal offers to change to different color schemes, but hat messes up the look of mate-terminal when I log back into the Mate Desktop.

Ambiant-MATE (and Radient- & -Dark) are just GTK2/GTK3 themes, so it might be down to missing environment variables of the other WM, or the other WM is configured to use a different theme. Try running these in a terminal in herbstluftwm/i3:

export GTK_THEME=Ambiant-MATE
export GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Ambiant-MATE/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
pluma

If this loads the application with Ubuntu MATE's theme, then in theory, you could add these environment variables to ~/.bash_aliases and logout/login.