Re: theme question

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems 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");

~ and $HOME are normally interpreted by a shell, and mean nothing to a
function call expecting a regular unix path.

>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");

these commands are interpreted by a shell, so that ls(1) sees the full path.