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 Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2002 11:40 am Post subject: Can I theme GTK+ widgets without Gnome installed? |
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Hi, I know comparatively little about Gnome (haven't used it since RedHat 6.0). But I run a fair few (great) GTK+ programs. I really find the default widget set ... well ... ugly. Perhaps not ugly as such, but pretty unattractive and tacky. I know GTK+ widgets are themeable so I have two questions:
1. How? Must I have Gnome fully installed?
2. Can it be done for GTK+ 1.x or only 2.x?
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slik
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Joined: 18 Apr 2002
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Location: Alberta, Canada
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| Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2002 7:30 pm Post subject: Re: Can I theme GTK+ widgets without Gnome installed? |
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| kerframil wrote: |
1. How? Must I have Gnome fully installed?
2. Can it be done for GTK+ 1.x or only 2.x?
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1. you don't need gnome fully installed
2. yes it can be done with 1.x
in your home directory, create the file .gtkrc
| Code: | include "/usr/share/themes/themename/gtk/gtkrc"
style "user-font"
{
fontset="-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"
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replace fontset with what you want for default font, you can grab this line from xfontsel
browse for a theme you like here or here. |
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474
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| Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2002 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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Nice one, slik ...  |
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474
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| Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2002 6:24 pm Post subject: Arrrghh! No luck ... |
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Sorry if I'm being a bit lame, but I tried that method to no avail. OK, I thought, lets look for some documentation - I managed to find a tutorial which indicated that you can simply copy the gtkrc file from the theme sub-directory to your ~/.gtkrc file (btw, it said you need gtk-engines so I emerged that). I had partial success using this approach, but none of the pixmaps would work. I have got jpglib, imlib and libpng installed. You could see other aspects of the theme being applied, but no buttons, scrollbars and so on. I tried running a GTK app from the console to see what was happenning (sylpheed). There were lots of errors as such: | Code: | Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "button5.png" line 1105
Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "button5.png" line 1114 |
etc etc etc ....
<deep breath> I then followed the advice given and edited the resource file and added a line at the top of the file (in this case for the AquaLiteBlue theme): | Code: | | pixmap_path "/usr/share/themes/AquaLiteBlue/gtk/" |
Same problem! I then uncommented this line to ensure it was looking in the right place for the engine libraries: | Code: | | module_path "/usr/lib/gtk/themes/engines" |
Still nothing!  Any idea what gives? |
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474
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| Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2002 6:41 pm Post subject: Progress at last |
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Great! I got it working (without errors) by removing the pixmap_path line that I had added and changing the uncommented module_path line like this: | Code: | | module_path "/usr/lib/gtk/themes/engines/lib |
Now I'll have a look at your technique. Funny though - app-misc/gtk-theme-switch does not work at all ... pity, because it would be nice to preview the themes.
EDIT: spoke way too soon! It only worked if I ran sylpheed from a console when I was in the directory that had the pixmaps in it ... this is getting really frustrating now. Advice is really welcome ... |
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slik
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Location: Alberta, Canada
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| Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2002 5:36 pm Post subject: Re: Progress at last |
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| You need x11-libs/gtk-engines-0.12-r2 installed, do you have that? gtk-engines-1.9.0 is for gtk+2 Other than that, I'm not sure, I did install x11-libs/old-gtk-themes too though (hacked up so I could download them) |
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