Re: Repost : problem with gnome themes ... (gtk.themes how to fix)

[Georges-Henry Portefait <chewbee cybercable fr>]

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for your help, you are the first one who answers me.

I have problems with what you wrote :

	+ I have to untar the themes myself, the install themes button does not
work for me ( it
	crashes ( it remains stucked) but I m never logged in as root

	+ For me the default themes are installed in /usr/local/share/themes/.
	If I put any theme in /usr/share/themes/ they do not appear in the
themes capplet !!

	+ I checked the files and there permissions they are ok
	+ In the preview field of the capplets the thing which changes from
themes to themes is
	the font the widgets does not change, and there no signs of any pixmaps
on widgets.

Thank you very much for your help, but I guess I need more help :) 

Best regards 

GH Portefait




Ryan Leduc wrote:
> 
> I have found that many gtk themes don't work "out of the box" with
> gnome.
> 
> I have figured out how to get most of them working (all but "Executive"
> theme)
> 
> I'm using RPMs, and my gtk themes are in /usr/share/themes
> If the theme capplet isn't putting your themes here, you can always
> untar them here yourself..  (you know you are in the right directory
> because the default pixmap theme is here.)
> Let's say you have installed "OldWood"
> 
> cd /usr/share/themes/OldWood
> 
> make sure there is a gtk subdirectory.  If not, make one and move all
> files but the README.html there.
> 
> go into gtk directory and look at the gtkrc
> 
> Look for any directory paths hardwired:
> 
> OldWood comes with:
> 
> pixmap_path "/usr/local/share/themes/OldWood"
> 
> As your files are under /usr/share/themes
> you can see the problem.  You can comment this out, or correct the
> path..
> The theme should now work..
> 
> If it doesn't, check that all the files are world readable, and that the
> directories are readable and executable:
> 
> >ls -l gtkrc
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        23272 Feb 23 16:18 gtkrc
> 
> >ls -l
> total 2
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         2048 Feb 23 16:18 gtk/
> 
> That should do it..
> 
> I also had problems with gnome 1.0.1 and themes..  When I selected them
> from the control-panel, only some of the theme changed..
> 
> I deleted a file: ~/.gnome/theme-switcher-capplet
> 
> and all was well...
> 
> Ryan
> 
> If not use chmod a+r * to fix this


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