Changed my theme to GTK on kde4 and can't get it back..

Vic1ous · 06-17-2009, 05:49 PM

Yeah I'm having a bad day as far as computers go. Alright so I changed the kde4 theme to GTK and It crashed and went to the console screen now when I try to login it gives me the following error. "qgtkstyle cannot be used together with the gtk_qt engine" I googled the problem but most of the time I come up with people having this problems when running applications.

mlangdn · 06-17-2009, 06:25 PM

I did that a couple of weeks ago. You will have to delete the .kde directory in your /home/yourname directory, and all will be back to a fresh start. Resetting your personal configs and stuff.

Vic1ous · 06-17-2009, 06:29 PM

is there no way to just change the theme back with a command or something?
It would really suck having to set it all back up

mlangdn · 06-17-2009, 06:34 PM

I guess its possible, but I am not aware of any. I've borked kde before and that is the only resort I've ever had.

justin_p · 06-17-2009, 07:06 PM

Maybe you could uninstall "gtk_qt engine" package? Then go in fix the issue and re-install.

xcristi · 11-01-2009, 12:11 PM

I realize this is a little bit old, but I need to post here the solution because I encountered myself the same problem today.

So, in order to have again qt4 applications running, modify in

.kde/share/config/kdeglobals

Code:

[General]
shadeSortColumn=true
widgetStyle=gtk+ <- CHANGE THIS TO
widgetStyle=oxygen <- THIS

Everything should start now ok.

Rollo69 · 01-15-2011, 02:07 AM

Yes I know the thread is old, Just wanted to say thanks for the help given with this problem. Didn't realize I altered anything but both options given worked. Tried both, started with the kdeglobals file first.