GTK, MDK, and XFCE

[Jack Kern]

Olivier Fourdan wrote:

>Hi,
>
>You have no $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0, do you?
>
>$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0  
>
I assume you suggest that any $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 should be removed as XFce 
programs may be compromised.

I wondered if that may cause problems with other apps.  For example, 
without a gtkrc file xmms fonts are rather ugly.  When I copied a file, 
/etc/gtk/gtkrc.utf-8, to ~/.gtkrc, they looked much better.
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jkern at boat:~$ cat /etc/gtk/gtkrc.utf-8
style "default-text" {
       fontset = "-*-arial-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1,\
                  -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"
}

class "GtkWidget" style "default-text"
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Copying it to ~/.gtkrc-2.0 was just like having no gtkrc again.  I 
finally moved ~/.gtkrc to .xmms/gtkrc, the fonts looked just the same as 
when it was ~/.gtkrc.  I don't claim to understand why this happens.

Well, so what, eh?  (For one thing I don't know what I am talking 
about.)  Anyhow, perhaps there are applications that need some kind of 
gtkrc-* file.  The problem would be to configure somehow without 
compromising XFce functions.

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