On 14/09/12 02:22, Jochen Keil wrote:
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).
Dear Jochen, My desktop settings call for a gnome-settings-daemon to be run, and indeed, ps reveals that one is running. I can also configure some things from the System Tools/System Settings/ menu. For example, turning on sticky modifiers in the Universal Access/Typing screen works. But changing the theme in Appearance doesn't seem to do anything at all. Nor can I seem to change the system font anywhere. I don't have either a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 or ~/.config/gtk-3.0 directory. How do I tell which framework my applications are basing themselves on? Of the files you attached, should I just create instances of all of them? Thanks for any advice you may have, Michael