Re: [xmonad] gnome theming is destroying my life

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Jochen Keil wrote:

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Hi,

On 13.09.2012 17:15, Brandon Allbery wrote:

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On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Carsten Mattner wrote:

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On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Michael Norrish wrote:

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On 13/09/12 10:52, Brandon Allbery wrote:

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On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Michael Norrish mailto:michael.norrish@nicta.com.au> wrote: Until a few days ago, this was giving me a very pleasant xmonad experience with a little gnome seasoning. But, it also seems as if I can't adjust my gnome settings.

This happened to me when I migrated my Debian stable to testing (which ran GNOME 3); I never did find a way to make it behave, and finally gave up and wiped the install.

Thanks for the (depressing) news. I will have to look into what I can do without.

GNOME 3.x theming is still evolving and therefore you most

I should clarify: this was GNOME 3 running in fallback (i.e. "should be" GNOME 2). But somehow all theming was disabled and (it being that I had a theme engine configured, and it was present in the system and if I installed a theme manager I could deselect/reselect it) theme engines threw errors as if they couldn't be found. Or, integrating the above, that something is forcing the theme to something stupid and ugly, possibly in a misguided attempt to get people to throw everything (possibly including hardware) out and upgrade to the Glorious New Shiny.

I'd like to throw a bit in here. I'm running completely without {gnome,xfce}-session-manager (which does normally all the fancy gtk theme settings). It is possible to configure gtk-{2,3} applications without GNOME or XFCE though.

For reference I've attached my ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini files.

Themes can most likely be found in /usr/share/themes (depends on installation) whereas icon themes normally reside in /usr/share/icons (again, dependent on installation).

Plus ~/.themes and ~/.icons.

The reference for configuring gtk with plain files are http://developer.gnome.org/gtk/stable/GtkSettings.html http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkSettings.html Please note that the format slightly differs, especially for strings. It is also noteworthy, that the include for a theme in gtkrc-2.0 has to be upfront.

Hope this was helpful and best regards,

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