GTK themes and XChat

cbr · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 5:05 pm Post subject: GTK themes and XChat

I have some great GTK themes.. BUT, whenever i switch to them, my xchat input bar doesn't obey to the rules given. I have said in my xchat preferences, that "Use the text box font and colors". But my input box's font turns light-grey all of a sudden. Can this be fixed by editing gtkrc in any way?

http://www.zone.ee/leenoks/vard.png?2

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btw, I'm using XFCE4 and install my GTK themes with gnome-theme-manager(is not important imho but i still mentioned it)

Artie_Effim · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 25

yeah, me too

same problem, in gnome, xchat-2 (2.0.6)

hmmm.....

cbr · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 4:19 pm Post subject:

Is it this way because of the GTK theme or because of XChat?
Very strange and annoying.. Nobody knows a solution to this really?

metal_dragen · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 9:20 pm Post subject:

I had this problem also (most notably using roberTO's Milk theme from gooeylinux), and it is a problem with the way the theme skins the widgets. IIRC, all of roberTO's themes have this problem. As far as I know, there's no way to fix it other than mucking around in the theme's configuration file.
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cbr · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 9:39 pm Post subject:

Do you know, what has to be done in the conf file to fix this?

G-LiTe` · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 147

From my experience I just had to restart after disabling that option in the preferences. After that, the input boxes should be themed by GTK.

cbr · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 9:48 am Post subject:

Disabling that option made the text readable

The inputbox is now bg:white text:black while the textbox is bg:black text:white, so it's not really solving the problem but it'll do

Thanks!
A pic!

Artie_Effim · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 25

er...um...what option, and where?

cbr · Posted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 7:34 pm Post subject:

Settings > Preferences > Input Box > untick "Use the Text box font and colors" and restart XChat.