Re: overridding the theme in ~.gtkrc-2.0

[zentara <zentara1 sbcglobal net>]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:42:04 -0400
zentara <zentara1 sbcglobal net> wrote:

> I'm toying around with the idea of having a custom resource
> directory for an app, like ~./myapp , and have a custom .gtkrc-2.0 
> in it to parse at the beginning of the script, to get custom colors.
>
> However, it seems it is not possible, as the ~.gtkrc-2.0 file seems
> to override what is parsed in the script. 
> For instance, I have 2 themes, Z and BumbleBee.

> Is there a way to force the app to use BumbleBee, without modifying ~.gtkrc-2.0?
> Thanks,
> zentara

Well Daniel Kasak answered off-list, and his solution works, so I post it.

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> Is there a way to force the app to use BumbleBee, without modifying ~.gtkrc-2.0?  

There's probably a 'proper' way to do this, but anyway I'll show you the
way *I* do it.

Set the environment variable GTK2_RC_FILES to the path of your gtkrc
file. For example, I have a dark theme, but Eclipse looks like barf when
using it, so I start eclipse:

GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Aurora-looks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc eclipse-3.2

Dan
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So you setup a wrapper script, and it will override the default ~.gtkrc-2.0

##############################
#!/bin/sh
export GTK2_RC_FILES='/usr/local/share/themes/Bumblebee/gtk-2.0/gtkrc' 
./myapp_w-custom-rc
###############################

zentara


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