Re: theme question

[Dave Smith <davecindysmith attbi com>]

I am just learning about GTK and I have a related problem.  My test program 
does not seem to find my ~/.gtkrc file.  If I add a line to my program:
	gtk_rc_parse ("/u/dave/.gtkrc");

It finds the file correctly.  If I write this line as either:
	gtk_rc_parse ("~/.gtkrc");
or
	gtk_rc_parse ("$HOME/.gtkrc");

it does NOT find the file, so it looks like some kind of a default path 
problem.  I added three additional lines to the program:
	system("ls -l /u/dave/.gtkrc");
	system("ls -l ~/.gtkrc");
	system("ls -l $HOME/.gtkrc");

and I get the following output on the terminal:
-rw-rw-r--    1 dave    users         813 2003-05-30 09:39 /u/dave/.gtkrc
-rw-rw-r--    1 dave    users         813 2003-05-30 09:39 /u/dave/.gtkrc
-rw-rw-r--    1 dave    users         813 2003-05-30 09:39 /u/dave/.gtkrc

so $HOME seems to be exported correctly.  Any ideas?

Also, while I am able to change colors and pixmaps using .gtkrc, I don't seem 
to be able to select a new font.  If I add the line:
	font = "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"

(generated using "xfontsel") the font remains unchanged.  I have also tried 
numerous other fonts listed by "xlsfonts" with the same result.  Is there a 
"font_path"-like variable that needs to be set (similar to "pixmap_path")?

Thanks in advance.
					Dave






On Thursday 29 May 2003 12:14, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 20:20, Tony Denault wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 May 2003, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 22:50, Tony Denault wrote:
> > > > I'm using gtk on solaris/sparc, but can't themes to work.
> > >
> > > The way that most people would select a theme is, to put in their
> > > ~/.gtkrc-2.0
> > >
> > >  gtk-theme-name = "Metal"
> >
> > Tried this - no luck.
> >
> > > If GTK+ was installed some place other than /usr/local, the
> > > gtk-engine's README file explains what to do:
> >
> > After I did this, gtk found my themes:
> >
> >    cd /usr/local/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0
> >    ln -s ../2.0.0/engines
> >
> > So it look like the gtk-engine installed itself in the 2.0.0.
>
> gtk-engines decides where to install itself by running
>
> $ pkg-config --variable=gtk_binary_version gtk+-2.0
> 2.2.0
>
> So, you must have had an old version of GTK+ in your PKG_CONFIG_PATH
> when you configured gtk-engines.
>
> > GTK 2.0 and 2.2 confusion. In many instances 2.2 really acts like 2.0.
> > I ran across a similiar problem in the pkg-config utility too:
> >    'pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.2' doesn't work but I can
> >    use 'pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0' to compile my 2.2 apps.
>
> It's no doubt confusing, but there is some sense behind it:
>
>  Programs for 2.0 still work with 2.0, so we didn't want to
>   rename the PC file.
>
>  The directory where themes and modules get installed
>   changes to allow both 2.0 executables + 2.0 themes
>   (e.g., statically linked executables) and 2.2 executables +
>   2.2 themes to work at the same time.
>
> Regards,
>                                                 Owen
>
>
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