Re: [gnome-love] GTK customisation (OT?)

[Jon Dowland <lists alcopop org>]

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:29:01AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> How can I make user-specific modifications to a GTK2 theme?
>
> I assume the file ~/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 is loaded for GTK1 apps in GNOME,
> and then I can create the file ~/.gtkrc.mine and put stuff in there to
> customise GTK1 (I haven't actually tested this though). However, I can't
> find any pointers for doing the same with GTK2.

I used,
$ strace ./scroll.exe 2>&1| grep gtkrc

(scroll.exe being a trivial GTK2 program, basically anything which calls
gtk_init I believe is sufficient) to determine the following gtkrc
order:

/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc.en_GB
/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc.en
/home/jon/.gtkrc-2.0
/home/jon/.gtkrc-2.0.en_GB
/home/jon/.gtkrc-2.0.en
/home/jon/.themes/DebianRed-jmtd/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
/usr/share/themes/DebianRed-jmtd/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
/usr/share/themes/DebianRed-jmtd/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
/usr/share/themes/DebianRed-jmtd/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
/usr/share/themes/DebianRed-jmtd/gtk-2.0/gtkrc.en_GB
/usr/share/themes/DebianRed-jmtd/gtk-2.0/gtkrc.en
/home/jon/.themes/Default/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc
/usr/share/themes/Default/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc
/usr/share/themes/Default/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc
/usr/share/themes/Default/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc
/usr/share/themes/Default/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc.en_GB
/usr/share/themes/Default/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc.en

Where,

1) en_GB is my locale
2) jon is my username (thus $HOME=/home/jon)[1
3) DebianRed-jmtd is my current theme/style as selected in GNOME[a]


[a] someone may be able to elaborate on where this setting is kept, e.g.
gconf or something

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