Re: Using a gtk-2.0 theme

[Scott Barron <sb125499 ohiou edu>]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 05:16:18PM -0700, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> I have a theme made for gtk-2.0, but can't seem to get it to work. 
>
> I have a .gtkrc-2.0 file with the following contents, the commented out
> ones do not seem to affect any change.
>
> #pixmap_path "/usr/share/themes/AquaLightBlue/gtk-2.0"
> #module_path "/usr/share/themes/AquaLightBlue/gtk-2.0"
> include "/usr/share/themes/AquaLightBlue/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
>
> Now when I start a gtk-2.0 app, I get the following error
>
> Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
>
> Why do I get that error?
>
> What can I do to make it go away and my theme work?
>
> Thanks

Hi,

I believe you'll want to install a modern version of gtk-engines (I'm
using 1.9.0).  You can pick it up from one of the gnome mirrors in the
2.0.0 directories.  This fixed the same problem for me, anyway.

-Scott

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