Re: [gtk-list] Difficulty using theme engines

[Straker Skunk <straker fox mit edu>]

> I can't get GTK themes to work. Well, more accurately, I can't get the theme
> engines to work. Every time I try to load a theme that uses anything but the
> default engine, it spews out a bunch of lines like:
> 
> Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libpixmap.so",
>
[...]
> 
> So I went back to the gtk-engines source tree and rebuilt it carefully. Nope,
> no .so files are generated or installed at any time.

I haven't used the pixmap theme engine, but I do use the GTKstep one:

	skunk:/tmp$ ls /usr/lib/gtk/themes/engines/*
	/usr/lib/gtk/themes/engines/libstep.la*
	/usr/lib/gtk/themes/engines/libstep.so*
	skunk:/tmp$ 

Check the configure script for gtk-engines. Is there a --enable-shared
option somewhere? Sometimes, library packages don't build shared (or
static) objects by default.

I don't see why that would be the case here, since statically linking a
theme engine doesn't make much sense, but then (IIRC) the pixmap theme
engine is still in development so it could be a debugging measure.


Hope this helps,


--Straker


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