Re: overridding the theme in ~.gtkrc-2.0

[Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>]

--- zentara <zentara1 sbcglobal net> wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:01:10 +0200
> Jörn Reder <joern zyn de> wrote:
>
> > zentara wrote:
> >
> > > So you setup a wrapper script, and it will override the default ~.gtkrc-2.0
> > >
> > > ##############################
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > export GTK2_RC_FILES='/usr/local/share/themes/Bumblebee/gtk-2.0/gtkrc' 
> > > ./myapp_w-custom-rc
> > > ###############################
> >
> > Probably it's sufficient to set this environment variable in your Perl 
> > program, I think before Gtk2->init or better in a BEGIN block to execute
> > it early:
> >
> >  BEGIN { $ENV{GTK2_RC_FILES} = '...' }
> >  use Gtk2 -init;
> >  ...
> >
> > This way no wrapper script should be needed.
> > Regards,
> > Jörn
>
> Thanks. 
> I tried it for my first post, and it didn't work( because I put the BEGIN block
> after Gtk2 -init).  This is much better for Perl, but the wrapper is still handy for 
> a c program.
>
> zentara
>
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Another trick in Perl - if one wants to control the order in which 'use ...'
statements are executed, 'eval' comes handy, i.e. one can write:

<something_to_be_done_first>
eval "use Foo;";
.

--Sergei.


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