GTK+2 Application Themes

[Alexander Toresson]

On 2/8/07, Bob Snyder <bob.snyder at cox.net> wrote:
> Erik Harrison wrote:
> > On 2/7/07, Bob Snyder <bob.snyder at cox.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Alexander Toresson wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Do you have any ~/.gtkrc-2.0 or similar file? If so, delete it.
> >>>
> >> This seems strange since the manual for xfdesktop says to use this file
> >> for setting the text colors for the desktop icons:
> >>
> >>
> >
> > That's because Xfdesktop gets the info from Gtk
> >
> >
> >>> Icon View Text Appearance
> >>>
> >>>     The colors of the icon text and the icon text background, as well
> >>>     as the opacity of the icon text background, can be customized by
> >>>     putting directives simiar to the following in your |~/.gtkrc-2.0|
> >>>     file:
> >>>
> >>>
> >> It also seems strange to me that a file that configures gtk 1.0 themes
> >> would be named .gtkrc-2.0. Are you sure that's the intended file?
> >>
> >
> > It is for changing Gtk+ 2 stuff, not 1.x
>
> Ah, then perhaps deleting it is not such good advice.
>
> Bob S.
>

Well, I gave the advice assuming he would know whether he had edited
and set some special setting himself in that file. A very common case
of the theming settings in the user interface settings not working is
that some other gtk2 theme is set in ~/.gtkrc-2.0, which then
overrides any settings set through xsettings, and thus the user
interface settings.

Regards, Alexander Toresson