Themes

[Devin Whalen]

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 12:09, Emmanuel Favre-Nicolin wrote:
> Le mercredi 9 Juin 2004 17:20, Devin Whalen a écrit :
> > On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 22:43, Erick wrote:
> > > > Hello, my XFCE GTK2 theme engine is not working.  I am running Fedora
> > > > Core 2 -- and have tried installing from the FC2 CD 4, apt via
> > > > Synaptic, and yum.  With that not working, I removed the RPMs and
> > > > installed from CVS -- still no XFCE GTK themes.  Is there something
> > > > else I should be doing?
> > >
> > > Yep. I do not know why this rpm was not included in the FC2 base set of
> > > rpms, but it is not.
> > >
> > > I downloaded the srpm from here:
> > >
> > > http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/redhat/en/i386/fc1/SRPMS.newrpms/gtk-xfce-e
> > >ngine-2.1.9-1.src.rpm
> > >
> > > and rebuilt that for FC2, then installed it.
> >
> > Hello,  I seem to be having a similar problem with my xfce themes.  I
> > don't know if it is the gtk2 theme engine but when I was trying to
> > install the theme found here:
> > http://xfce.lindesign.se/db/viewtopic.php?t=753 by Nikola I noticed the
> > problem.
> >
> > First off, how do you install themes?  I did it by moving the theme
> > folder to /usr/share/themes which is where all the other xfce themes
> > seem to be.  At any rate installing new themes is rather moot because
> > when I try to change the existing themes they don't do anything.
> >
> > This is an error I noticed:
> > xftaskbar4:21603): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
> > module_path: "smooth",
> >
> > Also, I did a rpm -qa | grep gtk-xfce-engine and found nothing.  Where
> > can I find this rpm for Mandrake 10.  I installed xfce through urpmi.
> >
> > Thanks for the help.
> >
> > Later
> 
> I use MDK10 and I just downloaded  and untared
> http://pizurica.on.neobee.net/teme/blanco.tgz
> 
> and then I did :
> sudo cp -rf  blanco/blanco-xfwm4 /usr/share/xfwm4/themes/
> 
> and I can launch blanco-xfwm4 theme, no problem (as though I don't like this 
> theme...).
> 
> 
> and for information :
> 
> $ rpm -qa|grep xf
> libxfree86-devel-4.3-30mdk
> xfig-3.2.4-5mdk
> xfce-utils-4.0.3-1mdk
> xfce-systemload-plugin-0.3.4-1mdk
> xfce-themes-4.0.3-2mdk
> xfce-panel-4.0.3-1mdk
> xfprint-4.0.3-1mdk
> xfce-diskperf-plugin-1.4.1-1mdk
> xfce-session-0.1.4-1mdk
> xfce-mixer-4.0.3-1mdk
> libxfce4util1-4.0.3-1mdk
> xfce-mcs-manager-4.0.3-1mdk
> xfdesktop-4.0.3-1mdk
> libxffm0-4.0.3-1mdk
> xfce-wavelan-0.3.2-1mdk
> xfce-clipman-plugin-0.4.0-1mdk
> xfce-netload-plugin-0.2.2-1mdk
> xfce-datetime-plugin-0.3.0-2mdk
> libxfree86-4.3-30mdk
> libxfcegui4_1-4.0.3-1mdk
> xfce-mcs-plugins-4.0.3-1mdk
> xfce-iconbox-4.0.3-1mdk
> xfce-systray-4.0.3-1mdk
> xfce-xmms-plugin-0.1.1-1mdk
> xfce-fsguard-plugin-0.2.0-1mdk
> xfce-weather-0.2.0-1mdk
> libxfce4mcs1-4.0.3-1mdk
> libxfprint0-4.0.3-1mdk
> xffm-4.0.3-1mdk
> xfce-toys-4.0.3-1mdk
> xfce-4.0.3-2mdk
> XFree86-xfs-4.3-30mdk
> xfwm-4.0.3.1-1mdk
> xfce4-artwork-0.0.4-1mdk
> xfce-trigger-launcher-4.0.3-1mdk

Hello,

Thanks for your replies Emmanuel and Nikola.  Sorry I took so long to
reply but I was busy yesterday.  For some reason my boss doesn't
consider getting my themes working on xfce a priority :)

> I use MDK10 and I just downloaded  and untared
> http://pizurica.on.neobee.net/teme/blanco.tgz
> 
> and then I did :
> sudo cp -rf  blanco/blanco-xfwm4 /usr/share/xfwm4/themes/

Ok, so there are two places for themes.  One for the window manager
themes in /usr/share/xfwm4/themes/ and one for the user interface themes
in.../usr/share/themes/....is that right?  

Well at any rate, moving the blanco-xfwm4 theme to
/usr/share/xfwm4/themes worked fine and all the other themes work fine
as well.  

However, it is the user-interface themes that are not working.  It seems
to almost hang for a second and then do nothing.  Is there something
that I have to make sure is running?  What xfce4 rpm do I need for the
user-interface themes? 

and for information :
> $ rpm -qa|grep xf

Your query didn't show any gtk-xfce-engine as well.  Does this mean you
don't need it for xfce4 on Mandrake?  That seems strange.

You need Smooth gtk2 engine, since that theme uses it.
> 
> Nikola

Does anyone know any urpmi sites that carry this rpm?

Thanks for the help.



Later



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