Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 06:57:56 +0107 (CEST) From: "Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek" <FST777@phreaker.net> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: some experiences so far (regarding Gnome, XFce and GTK+) Message-ID: <0HE8005JZTTA81@net.WAU.NL>
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I was installing Gnome a few days ago just to check it out (I'm desperately in love with XFce) when a roommate caused a powercrash. I wasn't able to boot for a while (read: I was too impatient to read that I had to run fsck MANUALLY in single user mode). It also appeared that my cleaning-action afterwards (get rid of all that Gnome-stuff my disk) did something else than what I had in mind (but I guess it did exactly what I asked for...) Anyhow, I reinstalled almost everything, screwed around with xdm the wrong way (had something to do with a half-installed edition of gdm I guess) wich prevented me from logging in for a few days (after that I discovered Ctrl-Alt-F1). I ended up with the new versions of XFce and Gaim. That is where the frustration began (yes, not until there...): I need (don't ask why) a consisting looking desktop: all programs I use should use the same toolkit, so that everywhere my scrollbars and buttons look exactly the same. This is nearly impossible, so I could live with some qt-based programs (but always looking for gtk-based replacements). But: XFce uses GTK+ 1; Gaim uses GTK+ 2. I cannot find any details about how to change themes for GTK on the net (checked some major sites), I don't have the usefull tools Gnome can provide, the XFce-themechooser doesn't work (the builder of XFce doesn't know why) and that would only be sufficient for all the GTK+ 1-based programs (this is where gtk-theme-switch comes in handy). I like the theme XFce has given to all the GTK+ 1-based programs, but the theme Gaim is using now is UGLY. I managed to addept the colors by installing gtk-xfce-engine (wich wasn't so hard :) ) I don't want to know how to change the themes from you all, but my question in general is: why does it appear so hard to find any good documentation about GTK+? Normally I can find my way around fairly easily, but I'm almost stuck now! Can't find man-pages, can't find docs on the net covering this issue... is there something wrong with me? PS: as you've might have seen between the lines: I now use gtk-theme-switch for GTK1. There is a version of this program for GTK2, but there is no FreeBSD-port yet...
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