GTK2 and GTK1 themes in KDE, Enlightenment etc.

[Uiler]

For some utterly strange reason if you set themes in Gnome 2 using the Gnome theme manager, the themes don't work anywhere else put Gnome 2. I don't seem to remember this happening in Gnome 1.*...In order to get GTK2 themes in working in KDE, Enlightenment etc. put a config file named ".gtkrc-2.0" in your home directory with contents like this:

 

gtk-font-name = "Arial 10"

include "pathtotheme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

 

You don't need to put the themes anywhere special.

 

For GTK1 put a config file named ".gtkrc" in your home directory with contents like:

 

include "pathtotheme/gtk/gtkrc"

style "Whateverthenameofthestyleis"

 

{

font = "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-p-*-iso8859-15"

}

 

If you use these in Gnome 2.* however it screws things up. The GTK2 config file conflicts with the Gnome 2 theme manager and the GTK1 config file doesn't work at all leaving you with the nasty default GTK1 theme. So if you are actually using Gnome 2.* be sure not to use these config files.

 

BTW, does anyone know how to define the icons you want for GTK2 programs?

[alaa]

gnome writes its gtk configs to ~/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2

best way to sync the configs is symlink .gtkrc-2.0 to .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2

let gnome handle the file

and put any modifications you want to make (like font settings) in ~/.gtkrc-mine

 

cheers,

Alaa