Re: A few questions

[John Cupitt <john cupitt ng-london org uk>]

Remco Poelstra wrote:
> What's the differences between all the gtk-engines that come with my
> distribution?
> And how can I use them?

You make a file in your home area called ".gtkrc", and add a line like:

	#include "/usr/local/share/themes/Metal/gtk/gtkrc"

AFAIK, the theme swapping panels just automate this for you. If you download a
theme, take a look at the README and there's usually a note about this.

> I now use the pixmap engine by installing the gtkrc from a theme package
> downloaded from themes.org, but how can I use another engine?

Download, install, look for the gtkrc file.

> I use balsa as my mail client and when I don't install any themes, it's
> pretty fast. When I use a pixmap theme, it's very very very slow at
> displaying the message body and consumes high amounts of memory. The
> freshmeats newsletter takes minutes to display and eats almost all my 128
> Mb memory, if it isn't to big, because then balsa is killed by the kernel.
> Wanda the GNOME fish has a similar problem: when I click to get a fortune
> message and I switch the desktop in enlightenment, it takes +- 30 seconds
> to redraw the screen.
> What's the cause of this?

Sorry, can't help here :-(

John