Adding Gtk-2 themes (for Nicotine --soulseek client)

flamesrock · 05-16-2004, 01:56 PM

Hi,

I finally managed to get nicotine working. Now, the only problem is that I can't seem to add themes for use with it like this one:

http://nicotine.thegraveyard.org/nicotine-1.png
http://nicotine.thegraveyard.org/nicotine-2.png

I've downloaded the h20 theme pack, but I have no idea as to where I should place these themes on my slack 9.1 box. Guides on the internet make no sense...and believe me I've tried for over two hours, placing themes in /usr/share/gtk2 & /usr/share/themes/default...

When I run nicotine, it spits out this error:
Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

Any ideas? I have all of the lates gtk2.0, pygtk and all of that. I'm not using GNOME, but KDE.

-Any help greatly appreciated.

deleterious · 06-10-2004, 10:16 AM

Okay, since no one answered this, and since it's embarrassingly high in a certain search on google, I'll answer it.

This error:

Code:

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

Means you need to install the gtk2 pixmap engine, which usually comes with the rest of gtk2 engines. (if you had gnome installed, for example, you would already have them installed.

Instructions for the distros I've used.

Gentoo:

Code:

emerge gtk-themes

Debian:

Code:

apt-get install gtk2-engines-pixbuf

(While you're at it, install the rest: gtk2-engines-metal, gtk2-engines-lighthouseblue, gtk2-engines-spherecrystal, etc..)

Arch Linux:

Code:

pacman -S gtk-engines

Mandrake:

Code:

urpmi gtk-engines2

If you don't want to install gnome AND don't want to mess around with the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file, install gtk-theme-switch and run:

Code:

switch2

Any themes you install should be extracted and placed in your ~/.themes/ directory so gtk-theme-switch can find themes.

jaybromley · 06-18-2004, 04:10 AM

Hello,

You're probably right most of the time. However there do seem to be some issues with the module path. For example, on my Gentoo linux I did the "emerge gtk-engines-pixmap", and the file libpixmap.so is in /usr/lib/gtk/themes/engines. Nonetheless, when trying to use a theme that uses this engine I get the mentioned error. Clearly, gtk+-2.4.1 is looking somewhere other than where the library is. I believe something similar happened to RedHat when the move was made from gtk+-2.2 to gtk+-2.4 - gtk wasn't looking in the right place.

So the question is: is there an environment variable or other way to either find out where gtk is looking and make a link or to modify where gtk looks?

Regards,
JayB

mldqj · 10-07-2006, 01:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jaybromley

Hello,

You're probably right most of the time. However there do seem to be some issues with the module path. For example, on my Gentoo linux I did the "emerge gtk-engines-pixmap", and the file libpixmap.so is in /usr/lib/gtk/themes/engines. Nonetheless, when trying to use a theme that uses this engine I get the mentioned error. Clearly, gtk+-2.4.1 is looking somewhere other than where the library is. I believe something similar happened to RedHat when the move was made from gtk+-2.2 to gtk+-2.4 - gtk wasn't looking in the right place.

So the question is: is there an environment variable or other way to either find out where gtk is looking and make a link or to modify where gtk looks?

Regards,
JayB

gtk-engines-pixmap is for gtk1 only, you should install gtk2-engines-pixbuf.