GTK2 is realy pissing me off! (themes)

idl

no matter what theme i select, they only change as much as the colour :evil:

Buttons, tabs, scrollbars do not change - ever!

Whats overriding my themes??!?!

oh and some fonts stay the same no matter where i change them..
the File, Edit, View Go etc buttons in phoenix and the name of my contacts in gaim!

:evil:

please point out the fault!

Thankyou

BlackPhoenix · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Oct 2002 Posts: 124

Ok, for the actual theme...use the emerge gtk-theme-switch and use switch2.
For the font...let me guess...you are running GTK2 apps under something non-gnome, correct?

I use KDE, and while it USED to work perfectly fine...now, the gnome settings daemon just wont run...when I start it manualy, it messes up my desktop quite badly (though I can get it back, but its awkward to do everytime I login), but then everything is as it should be... Thats not normaly, I saw a few threads with people having the same problem, but no fix... Awkward.

Switch2 will change most of the fonts, but not everything. The daemon needs to be running for the rest.

vers_iq · Apprentice Joined: 18 May 2002 Posts: 264

oniq · Guru Joined: 02 Sep 2002 Posts: 597 Location: Connecticut

Remember that some applications (phoenix-bin and gaim 0.59) still use GTK1, while others like Gnome2 use GTK2. To switch themes in GTK1, emerge switch. To do this goto /usr/portage/x11-themes/gtk-theme-switch, and emerge gtk-theme-switch-1.0.1.ebuild. You can now run from a terminal (Eterm, xterm, Gnome Terminal, etc.), switch themename.tar.gz (you can find themes at art.gnome.org as well as themes.freshmeat.net). For GTK2 themes you will need to just have to type emerge switch, which will install switch2. The process is the same for switching a GTK2 theme, except you will need a GTK2 theme (which, at this point, there is not a lot of).
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idl · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 11:27 pm Post subject:

hi, yeh i had installed switch2 but the themes didnt change when i selected them... i had downloaded two themes from art.gnome.org and got errors about a mist engine in one of them, i just commented that bit out in the theme file, but now in x11-themes dir i see a gtk-engine-mist ebuild.. i will try that out in a mo

and yes I am not using gnome, but the lovely fluxbox

and i have phoenix installed with GTK2

Cheers for your help - I shall report back with how it goes

mezz · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 111

<Off point>
Hey you, port001, aren't you the same person that I know?

</Off point>

To let you know that 0.60 CVS version of gaim is very stable right now. I suggest, you to try download and compile it by yourself. It's using GTK2, I love it so far.

BTW: I installed it on FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT w/ Gnome 2.1.5.

Umm, does Phoenix installed w/ GTK2 via the portage by default? I need to check in portage online database to see how it does with GTK2, so I can do it on FreeBSD too.

idl · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2002 12:21 am Post subject:

mezz!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how are ya man!?!

yeh i got the gaim cvs version earlier and noticed the gtk2ness, i never realy liked gaim much before, but its come a long way since then

and as for phoenix with gtk2 you need to biuld it from source, check the sticky at the top of the page

laters

EDIT: Oh yeh, forgot to say that the themes are working wonderfully

allthough phoenix seems to ignore the themes (yes it IS using gtk2) but i'm not too bothered about that,
Xchat2 is looking wonderfull with its xft support aswell

Cheers for your help everyone!

mezz · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 111

Matje · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2002 7:55 pm Post subject:

Where is the switch2 - ebuild? It's not in my portage tree...
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idl · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2002 7:56 pm Post subject:

emerge gtk-theme-switch

Matje · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2002 8:08 pm Post subject:

Matje · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2002 8:30 pm Post subject:

Ok, I emerged gtk-theme-switch and I downloaded a theme. I get this error when running a gtk2-app:

idl · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2002 8:37 pm Post subject:

you now need some gtk engines, there are loads in x1-themes, you can look in your theme file for the correct one or just emerge them all

the theme you are trying needs the pixmap engine.. :

emerge gtk-engines-pixmap

Matje · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2002 8:44 pm Post subject:

It is emerged, still get the errors...
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Matje · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2002 8:48 pm Post subject:

Emerging gtk-engine-pixbuf did the trick :s
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H-Pi · Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2002 1:55 pm Post subject:

hey everyone, you don't have to do so much work

I just noticed there wa no engines dir in my /usr/share/gtk-2.0/2.1.2 and /usr/share/gtk-2.0/2.2.0 etc., while there's one in /usr/share/gtk-2.0/2.0.0, so I just made a symlink in my current gtk dir to /usr/share/gtk-2.0/2.0.0/engines, then I also the engines changed when changing themes

cujo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 84

i'm having the same problems. NOTHING changes my themes. i emerged all the engines. no luck.

H-Pi - i went to /usr/share/gtk-2.0 and i have a demo directory in there and that is it. i noticed you seem to be running gnome 2.1.2? i'm stuck on gnome 2.

any other ideas?

cujo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 84

correction...

my engines are in /usr/lib/...

but i dont know what symlink you are talking about creating. help?

ViU · n00b Joined: 14 Oct 2002 Posts: 6

I did, ln -s /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.0.0/engines/ /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0/engines

and the error went away, but switch2 still wont do anything then I try to switch themes with it.