[xmonad] gnome theming is destroying my life

[Jochen Keil]

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Hi,

On 13.09.2012 17:15, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Carsten Mattner 
> <carstenmattner at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Michael Norrish 
>> <michael.norrish at nicta.com.au> wrote:
>>> On 13/09/12 10:52, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Michael Norrish 
>>>> <michael.norrish at nicta.com.au 
>>>> <mailto:michael.norrish at nicta.com.au>> wrote: Until a few
>>>> days ago, this was giving me a very pleasant xmonad 
>>>> experience with a little gnome seasoning. But, it also seems
>>>> as if I can't adjust my gnome settings.
>>>> 
>>>> This happened to me when I migrated my Debian stable to
>>>> testing (which
>> ran
>>>> GNOME 3); I never did find a way to make it behave, and
>>>> finally gave up and wiped the install.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the (depressing) news.  I will have to look into
>>> what I can do without.
>> 
>> GNOME 3.x theming is still evolving and therefore you most
>> 
> 
> I should clarify:  this was GNOME 3 running in fallback (i.e.
> "should be" GNOME 2).  But somehow all theming was disabled and (it
> being that I had a theme engine configured, and it was present in
> the system and if I installed a theme manager I could
> deselect/reselect it) theme engines threw errors as if they
> couldn't be found.  Or, integrating the above, that something is
> forcing the theme to something stupid and ugly, possibly in a 
> misguided attempt to get people to throw everything (possibly
> including hardware) out and upgrade to the Glorious New Shiny.

I'd like to throw a bit in here. I'm running completely without
{gnome,xfce}-session-manager (which does normally all the fancy gtk
theme settings).
It is possible to configure gtk-{2,3} applications without GNOME or
XFCE though.

For reference I've attached my ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and
~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini files.

Themes can most likely be found in /usr/share/themes (depends on
installation) whereas icon themes normally reside in /usr/share/icons
(again, dependent on installation).

The reference for configuring gtk with plain files are
http://developer.gnome.org/gtk/stable/GtkSettings.html
http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkSettings.html
Please note that the format slightly differs, especially for strings.
It is also noteworthy, that the include for a theme in gtkrc-2.0 has
to be upfront.

Hope this was helpful and best regards,

Jochen
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[Settings]
gtk-theme-name=Greybird
gtk-icon-theme-name=elementary-mono-dark
gtk-fallback-icon-theme=gnome
gtk-cursor-theme-name=gnome
gtk-font-name=DejaVu Sans Semi-Condensed 8
gtk-toolbar-style=GTK_TOOLBAR_ICONS
gtk-toolbar-icon-size=GTK_ICON_SIZE_LARGE_TOOLBAR
gtk-button-images=1
gtk-menu-images=1
gtk-enable-event-sounds=0
gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds=0
gtk-xft-antialias=1
gtk-xft-hinting=1
gtk-xft-hintstyle=hintfull
gtk-xft-rgba=rgb
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include "/usr/share/themes/Greybird/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
#gtk-theme-name="Greybird"

gtk-icon-theme-name="elementary-mono-dark"
gtk-fallback-icon-theme="gnome"
gtk-font-name="DejaVu Sans Semi-Condensed 8"
gtk-cursor-theme-name="gnome"
gtk-toolbar-style=GTK_TOOLBAR_ICONS
gtk-toolbar-icon-size=GTK_ICON_SIZE_LARGE_TOOLBAR
gtk-button-images=1
gtk-menu-images=1
gtk-enable-event-sounds=0
gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds=0
gtk-xft-antialias=1
gtk-xft-hinting=1
gtk-xft-hintstyle="hintfull"
gtk-xft-rgba="rgb"
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