GTK, MDK, and XFCE

[myth47 at comcast.net]

I don't know that this will help but, a few days ago I installed Knoppix on a friend's laptop and crazy things happened like XFce4 took on all of KDE's themes and I could only connect to the Web through KDE.  Finally, in an act of desperation, I removed the Geramic theme from the system and rebooted.  Lo and behold: XFce4 is normal now and I can connect to the Web.  I think it must have something to do with that qt library thing (no, I am not a programmer) that is supposed to unify GTK and qt themes through Geramic.  Hope this helps.
> Sorry for the delay; I've been out of town.
> 
> > this is somewhat of a long shot, but it's _possible_ that some of your gtk 
> > engines are installed incorrectly.  or they are unable to load for whatever 
> > reason.  if the engine doesn't load, but the theme still gets applied, you 
> > might see the behavior you're describing.  troubleshooting that is probably 
> > beyond the scope of what i can do without seeing the box.
> 
> OK, I'm asking the Mandrake Users forum about this.
> 
> > have you ever run gnome2 on the box, and did that work ok with theme 
> > switching?  if so, then i'm even more confused...
> 
> Good idea.  I just tried running gnome and actually, the same thing
> happens: button icons change, menus/borders change, but nothing else. 
> Does this help diagnose?
> 
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