On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Uwe Pross wrote: > Hi there, > > On 28 Jan 2006 at 12:16:30 +0100, Greg BOGNAR wrote: > > > I use fvwm mainly with GTK2 applications. All window > > menus, etc. get the appropriate decorations, except for > > OpenOffice, which comes up with a very ugly interface. > > But it does get the decorations under Gnome and Xfce. So > > what is it that forces OpenOffice to look like a Gtk > > application under them? Is there something I should run > > under Fvwm to get the desired effect? > > You can try setting the environment variable (bash syntax): > > export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome > > to use gtk colors from ~/.gtkrc (~/.gtkrc-2.0) or > > export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde > > to use kde colors. I have got > > SetEnv OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP gnome > > in my fvwm config file which makes this variable available > in all processes started by fvwm. > > Cheers, Uwe >
Thank you, I meanwhile found this answer in both an earlier thread of this mailing list and another one. I am all for mailing lists :-) Greg
