On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 14:32, 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

Clean and simple, and it works ! Thanks a lot !

--
Karl Huysmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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