Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com> writes:
> At Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:12:52 +0100 (CET) Lucio Chiappetti
> <lu...@lambrate.inaf.it> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
>>
>> > I am noting a funny (and sort of annoying behaviour) when using firefox
>> > and acrobat reader in a fvmw session under suse 11.3 (newly installed).
>>
>> Apparently also openoffice is showing the same behaviour.
>>
>> > The topmost menu bar (File Edit ...) has white text onto black
>> > background, The remaining menu bars and widget are normal (black on
>> > light grey).
>>
>> For firefox there is a partial workaround. I always hated "themes" but I
>> found a sort of lightweight themes called "personas". If one goes to the
>> site where one can load them, one can also test them. They appear to
>> replace the menu bar and other bars with some pictured background. My
>> workaround was to choose a "persona" called "simple fox" (useless to say,
>> no picture, just solid gray :-)).
>>
>> This makes me think that all those applications are NOT using a specific
>> fg/bg colour for the top menu bar, but leaving it somehow transparent
>> letting some w.m. default shining through. I suppose in KDE what shines
>> through is determined by the default KDE theme ... how could I set a
>> similar "super-default" in fvwm ? a plain *background: and *foreground:
>> in .Xdefaults is no good.
>
> To make FireFox (and other GNome-flavored applications) 'play nice'
> with FVWM, I fire up a minimal bit of GNome:
> /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon. By firing this up with a properly
> setup ~/.gconf<mumble> directory/files, I can get FireFox to be set up
> with the proper Gnome 'theme' (I created a minimual theme that suited).
>
> (I actually use a 'session manager' I wrote in Tcl/Tk -- the session
> manager fires up fvwm and the gnome-settings-daemon.)
Recently I posted how to start that daemon and some other things
from a .xinitrc. Start the .xinitrc like this:
if [ -f /usr/bin/ck-xinit-session ] ; then
if [ "$1" = "startsess" ] ; then
shift
else
exec ck-xinit-session /home/dane/.xinitrc startsess
fi
fi
If you start using the KDE or Gnome login manager, you don't
need to do this.
As far as fvwm and gnome and kde getting along,
they get along just fine.
Just start up your distros "preferences" dialog.
For Fedora, it's gnome-control-center.
Then select appearance, and select a theme.
Works for me.
