set GTK theme w/out Gnome

jpbarto · 04-30-2003, 02:59 PM

ok, here's a question. I have the GTK libraries (and some of the necessary gnome libraries) but I did not install the Gnome WM. However when I run apps such as Gaim, Grip, and others that utilize Gnome / GTK themes they of course use the very boring very unattractive default theme. I understand that normally to install a new theme I would use the control panel under gnome. I don't use Gnome, I'll never use gnome. I'm an enlightened guy... so I don't want to have to install Gnome. How do I go about installing a gnome theme to alter the look of the GTK widgets w/out installing gnome?

thanks in advance,
jbarto

UnTamed · 04-30-2003, 05:58 PM

Gtk system wide themes should be in /usr/share/themes, if you followed the book ...and iirc

. If you compiled and installed to default location, check /usr/local/share.
Here's how I do it,

Code:

>ls -l /usr/share/themes/Default/
drwxr-xr-x    3 1000     1000           96 Mar  2 07:07 Black-Marble
drwxr-xr-x    3 1002     1002           72 Apr 26 19:42 Darkjungle
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root          152 Feb 16 06:19 PrettyBlueish
drwxr-xr-x    3 1000     1000           96 Oct 16  2002 fishpie
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           14 Apr 30 18:27 gtk -> Darkjungle/gtk
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           15 Apr 30 18:37 gtk-2.0 -> fishpie/gtk-2.0
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           72 Mar 27 09:06 gtk-2.0-key
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root           96 Apr 26 19:15 oem

...oem is where I've backed up the default theme, the rest is themes I downloaded and I use symlinks.

But be carefull, some apps will have their own gtkrc files in their dot dir. in the user accounts, I just link the to the gtkrc directly in those cases

Code:

>ls -l ~/.gimp-1.2/gtkrc*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           54 Apr 30 18:35 /root/.gimp-1.2/gtkrc -> ../../usr/share/themes/Default/PrettyBlueish/gtk/gtkrc
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          198 Mar 26 14:49 /root/.gimp-1.2/gtkrc.oem

HTH

jpbarto · 04-30-2003, 11:32 PM

ok... gave it a shot... ran gimp and it appears to be trying to load the new theme... but I get all kinds of gtk-errors stating that it can't find png images. Note that I installed the gnome libs / software sparingly... only what I had to install and I could have very well missed one. For example after downloading a theme and setting the symlinks I was getting an error about not finding libpixmap so I had to install the gtk-engine libraries. Any suggestions for the cause of this new error?

ERROR:
Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: 'button5.pn' line 1152

UnTamed · 05-01-2003, 07:28 PM

Dunno if you could be missing some libs but I get that warning for gftp but the gtk2 style loads fine.

There might be a better way to do this, I was just messing with this over the week-end. I did this on a pretty much b@st@rdized Crux but I got no KDE nor gnome onto it.

Also, you may have noticed, but my symlink for gimp points to a gtk[1] theme...

jpbarto · 05-01-2003, 10:22 PM

got if figured out... had to add a pixmap_path to gimp's gtkrc.

is there a universal gtkrc somewhere that all gtkrc's will inherit a pixmap_path from? I'd hate to have to edit the gtkrc of every GTK-1.2 proggie on my machine. Course this could also be a symptom of installing the Gnome 2.0 libraries and none of the Gnome 1.4 libs...

thanks everyone for all your help,
jpbarto