Re: overridding the theme in ~.gtkrc-2.0

[zentara <zentara1 sbcglobal net>]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:01:10 +0200
Jörn Reder <joern zyn de> wrote:

>zentara wrote:
>
>> 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
>> ###############################
>
>Probably it's sufficient to set this environment variable in your Perl 
>program, I think before Gtk2->init or better in a BEGIN block to execute
>it early:
>
>  BEGIN { $ENV{GTK2_RC_FILES} = '...' }
>  use Gtk2 -init;
>  ...
>
>This way no wrapper script should be needed.
>Regards,
>Jörn

Thanks. 
I tried it for my first post, and it didn't work( because I put the BEGIN block
after Gtk2 -init).  This is much better for Perl, but the wrapper is still handy for 
a c program.

zentara

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