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

[Cillian de Róiste]

2012/1/14 Александр Цамутали <astsmtl at yandex.ru>:
> 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.

It's not ideal/pure, but this is how I do it for KDE:
https://nixos.org/wiki/Enable_GTK_themes_in_KDE