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szero
03-08-2003, 05:13 PM
Hey...I need help! I just went back to slack 8.1(my baby) after a 2 month long torture session on Redhat 8.0. I have everything on slackware looking and performing much better than redhat did including my first custom kernel. The only thing I haven't been able to make like redhat was my KDE + GTK performance.
On redhat, my GTK2 apps looked the same as KDE apps when I ran KDE. (This was KDE 3.0.8 i think). I'm on KDE 3.0.1 now on slack. Is my version too old or something?
The only thing I was able to do was run gnome-theme-preferences or something and then gnome2 would theme the app...but then my KDE desktop got replaced by gnome's..which just wont do.
HELP!?
scanez
03-08-2003, 05:32 PM
Steps to changing your GTK2 theme when not usinig GNOME.
1. unpack the themes you want in ~/.themes
2. create a file called .gtkrc-2.0 in your home directory and put the following line in it
include "/home/user/.themes/theme_you_want/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
for GTK1 themes you'd do the same thing except name the file .gtkrc instead of .gtkrc-2.0
3. Be happy
szero
03-08-2003, 05:41 PM
scanez you are my hero
Raoul_Duke
03-12-2003, 06:16 PM
Hate to resurrect an old thread but when i follow these instructions i get the colour scheme but not the widgets. For example, running gkrellm2 from a shell gives me this error
(gkrellm2:1385): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
(gkrellm2:1385): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
(gkrellm2:1385): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
(gkrellm2:1385): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
(gkrellm2:1385): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
(gkrellm2:1385): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
(gkrellm2:1385): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
(gkrellm2:1385): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
Any ideas?
Originally posted by Raoul_Duke
Hate to resurrect an old thread but when i follow these instructions i get the colour scheme but not the widgets. For example, running gkrellm2 from a shell gives me this error
Any ideas? yes.
you are missing the pixmap theme engine. you need to download it and install it.
(or you installed it in teh wrong place)
if you have gentoo then: emerge gtk-engines-pixmap
Raoul_Duke
03-12-2003, 06:43 PM
Strange! i do have the pixmap-theme engine....i emerged it myself......and my xliquid gtk1 theme works fine :confused: