gtk2 app problems while compiling thunar

[James Westby]

On (23/04/06 16:22), Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 15:14 +0100, James Westby wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm currently compiling thunar-0.3.0beta1 in a pbuilder chroot and it
> > is giving me some strange problems with gtk2 apps.
> > 
> > While it is compiling (I haven't caught the exact moment, but it
> > appears to be within the main compiling stage) all my gtk2 apps
> > suddenly become all 'blocky'. By this i mean they lose all of the nice
> > widgets and are surrounded by rectangular borders. This is seen with
> > xfce4-panel, xfdesktop4, xftaskbar4 and firefox 1.5. It appears as
> > though gtk1 apps are not affected. 
> 
> xfce-mcs-manager beeing killed, so it doesnt manage gtk2 theme anymore.

It was mcs-manager, thanks.

> 
> If you use debian scripts, at install they run pkill -USR1 -f
> xfce-mcs-manager to refresh it. On my system, that kills
> xfce-mcs-manager completely

I would have thought that building inside a chroot would stop it from
killing my main mcs-manager. Also it's postinst and postrm that issue
that command, and as the package isn't being installed they shouldn't
be run. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks,

James