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Cossins
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 Posted: Thu May 08, 2003 4:57 pm Post subject: Looks of GTK2-apps under KDE |
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Hi there,
All GTK2-apps look horrible (ugly fonts, no theme) under KDE (which I am very happy with), except for when I have just run gnome-control-center (which seems to hide my desktop).
In other words, except I run gnome-control-center, which seems to apply my GTK2-theme and the proper fonts, everything (e.g. Gaim and the Gimp) looks really. It feels like the UI-settings are only loaded when gnome-control-settings (or gnome, I presume) is loaded.
Here is a screenshot:
[img:7f56c8fc75]http://www.ulsnes.dk/simon/gimp.jpg[/img:7f56c8fc75]
Notice the e's in particular (missing AA'ing). Oh, and BTW, the fonts aren't just ugly because of the compression...
- Simon |
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c07
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2003 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Try to link /usr/bin/gnome-settings-daemon in your KDE Autostart directory. |
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Cossins
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2003 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, that does apply my settings... BUT it also fries kdesktop (i.e. kills it). Of course, I can restart kdesktop afterwards, but that is not a very elegant solution... 
I'll experiment a bit with my .xinitrc and such...
- Simon |
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Niek
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2003 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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Try this:
| Code: | emerge gtk-theme-switch
switch2 |
Hope this helps 
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Elm0
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2003 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, I higly recommend gtk-theme-switch as well, works great for me =) It allows you to change the theme as well as the fonts.
My fav. GTK2 theme is gtk-engines-mist (also named that in portage). Its a very neutral theme, fits in with the more elaborate KDE themes nicely. Give it a go |
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Cossins
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2003 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for your suggestions, although I solved the problem myself (with help from c07).
I just changed my .xinitrc to this:
| Code: | gnome-settings-daemon &
xmodmap /etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap # For my wacom tablet...
startkde |
I'll try the gnome-theme-switch you mention, sounds tasty ...
- Simon |
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standsolid
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| Posted: Fri May 09, 2003 10:24 am Post subject: |
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i really don't want to make you jealous.... oh yeah i do. gtk2 apps can look GREAT under kde
[img:be0f06731c]http://blindinstinct.com/~kenny/ss.png[/img:be0f06731c]
it may be how fontconfig was compiled...i can give you use options if you'd like. hte gtk theme i'm using is geramik. makes GTK apps like like KDE apps. mmmmm
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Cossins
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2003 11:55 am Post subject: |
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| standsolid >> So, you didn't read the thread apart from the first post? |
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BlueEar
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2003 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Cossins wrote: |
I just changed my .xinitrc to this:
| Code: | gnome-settings-daemon &
xmodmap /etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap # For my wacom tablet...
startkde |
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It seems that this change works for those who do not run kdm or such. It works for me only if I start X by hand. I tried starting gnome-settings-daemon in Autostart, but as mentioned by Cossins, it kills kdesktop. Consequently, I added kdesktop command to follow the gnome-settings-daemon and that seems to work. However I was wondering if there is a less intrusive way? Possibly by changing ~/.font-config. Anybody? |
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Remenic
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2003 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| standsolid wrote: | i really don't want to make you jealous.... oh yeah i do. gtk2 apps can look GREAT under kde
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it may be how fontconfig was compiled...i can give you use options if you'd like. hte gtk theme i'm using is geramik. makes GTK apps like like KDE apps. mmmmm |
Wow, those fonts look very very nice! What did you do to get them to look like that? |
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EliasP
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@Remenic
Try this:
emerge gtk-engines-geramik gtk-theme-switch
switch2
Select the Geramik-Theme --> Apply
Restart your GTK2 programs..
Greetings
Elias P. |
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Kesereti
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| My question is (and admittedly, I'm not a GIMP master, so it could be something obvious)...how did you get all the tool icons in GIMP to be colorized? Mine are all greyscale... =\ |
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EliasP
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@Kesereti
Use the new GIMP-Devel version...
emerge $PORT_DIR/media-gfx/gimp-1.3.14.ebuild
Greetings
Elias P. |
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Kesereti
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| EliasP wrote: | @Kesereti
Use the new GIMP-Devel version...
emerge $PORT_DIR/media-gfx/gimp-1.3.14.ebuild
Greetings
Elias P. |
Aha, so it was the devel version...and here I thought I was just missing some cool section of the configuration =) |
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standsolid
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| Posted: Sun May 11, 2003 6:59 am Post subject: |
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| Remenic wrote: | | standsolid wrote: | i really don't want to make you jealous.... oh yeah i do. gtk2 apps can look GREAT under kde
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it may be how fontconfig was compiled...i can give you use options if you'd like. hte gtk theme i'm using is geramik. makes GTK apps like like KDE apps. mmmmm |
Wow, those fonts look very very nice! What did you do to get them to look like that? |
I used the "prebuilt" tag when building freetype... it emables the bytecode interpreter.
my fonts sucked horribly until that. now i am extemely happy with my fonts
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standsolid
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| Posted: Sun May 11, 2003 7:01 am Post subject: |
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| Cossins wrote: | | standsolid >> So, you didn't read the thread apart from the first post? |
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| Cossins wrote: | | Notice the e's in particular (missing AA'ing). Oh, and BTW, the fonts aren't just ugly because of the compression... |
i was responding to this part -- seems no one else was, so i stepped in to save the day.
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