On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 08:32, Troy Dack wrote: > On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 22:10, Karl Huysmans wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Have been looking everywhere, still can't find a solution to this > > problem: > > > > I run KDM and a KDE desktop, but I do use some Gnome gtk2 apps > > (Evolution, Mozilla compiled with gtk2, ...). > > > > To change theme and font settings for these Gnome apps, I open > > gnome-control-center from a shell. Lots of GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL and > > GLib-GObject-CRITICAL error messages, but Control Center opens. > > > > Open Theme preferences and I get this: > > Window manager warning: Failed to read theme from file > > /usr/share/themes/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml: Failed to open file > > '/usr/share/themes/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml': No such file or > > directory. > > > > Adjust the settings for theme and fonts, everything OK. > > > > But on next KDE login, settings are lost. Open Control Center again > > (same errors as above), double-clicking on either Font or Theme icons in > > Control Center immediately restores all of my previously made changes. > > > > When I open a Gnome session with the same user, everything is as I had > > set in Control Center. > > > > Tried doing the same with a freshly created user, same problem, so it is > > not user related. > > > > I have several Gentoo boxes, on some of them I have this problem, on > > others not. > > > > Any ideas? > > In ~/.kde/Autostart create a shortcut to run gnome-settings-daemon .. > this should give your gtk apps the settings they need
Or emerge gtk-theme-switch, and use switch2 to set your theme and font preferences. -- Chris I [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.cidesign.ca/~chris/ Kitchen activity is highlighted. Butter up a friend. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
