GTK default theme over-rides the theme set for the application.

[Sid Kapoor <sidkapoor2000 gmail com>]

Hi all,

 

I am using a Clearlooks theme as default for my CentOS 5.3 system. I want a slightly modified theme for a specific application XYZ. So I modified the Clearlooks theme's gtkrc a little bit and included it in code of XYZ using API gtk_rc_set_default_files(). Now when I run the application the changes in the included gtkrc file is not reflected. If I change the system's theme to something other than Clearlooks (theme not using the engine "clearlooks" ), the application XYZ works fine, i.e all the changes in my custom gtkrc file are reflected.

What can be the reason for this? How can I run the system on Clearlooks theme and use the custom-gtkrc file for XYZ simaltaneously ?

Thanks in advance,

Sid