[Nix-dev] [nix-dev] oxygen gtk theming

[Александр Цамутали]

Sergey Mironov <ierton at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi. I've installed oxygen-gtk theme and tried to switch it on by linking
>
> [ierton at pokemon:~]$ ls -l .gtkrc-2.0.mine 
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 ierton users 64 Янв 13 13:55 .gtkrc-2.0.mine -> /var/run/
> current-system/sw/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
>
> (.gtkrc-2.0.mine is included from .gtkrc-2.0)
>
> It works, partly. Now all my gtk apps issue a warning
>
> /nix/store/nb08bx0r8hj14l9gf7xprv1kb0vy1w2m-wicd-1.7.1-beta2/share/gtk/
> gui.py:152: GtkWarning: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path:
> "oxygen-gtk",
>
> and some parts of interface look ugly. 
>
> Well, I am not a gtk expert. Lxappearance app (not in tree, i've installed it
> locally) didn't help - it couldn't detect the presence of  oxygen theme in my
> system. Does anybody know a better  way of setting things up?

I tried the same with murrine a long time ago with the same result. It
seems we need to patch GTK+ to help it find paths to theme engines for
ex. from environment variable.


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Александр Цамутали