Themes dont seem to change anything ?

[Biju Chacko]

On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:55:51 +0530, Biju Chacko wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:50:37 -0400, Mister wrote:
> 
> > First i must say i just came from a longtime KDE user over to xfce
> > and i love it.  Only thing i cant figure out is the themes, when i
> > change them nothing seems to happen.  Am i missing somthing ?  I am
> > using version 3.8.16-- 
> 
> This catches a lot of people -- me included. XFce themes work by
> generating a .gtkrc with the appropriate colors. However, it will not
> modify a .gtkrc that it did not generate. The solution therefore is:
> 
> $ mv ~/.gtkrc ~/.gtkrc.bak

Olivier,

Hmmm ... maybe an error message is appropriate here? Something on the
lines of:

"ERROR: A theme file generated by another application was found.
Overwrite $HOME/.gtkrc ?" [YES] [NO]

-- b

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