Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:55:07 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: who's setting a wild-card'ed background color resource. Message-ID: <1066780507.97635.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <16277.47059.927449.720954@rosebud.alerce.com> References: <16277.26860.235109.20911@rosebud.alerce.com> <16277.47059.927449.720954@rosebud.alerce.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 18:48, George Hartzell wrote: > George Hartzell writes: > > > > I just got done updating ports on my 4.8 (4.8-RELEASE-p7) laptop, > > using the current ports tree (as of a couple of days ago). > > > > [...] > > > > The problem is: my custom background colors have disappeared. > > > > [...] > > > > I think what's killing me is this resource: > > > > *background: #dcdad5 > > > > [...] > > > > I can't figure out where it's getting set. Is is part of one of the > > myriad themes that the various gnome things use? > > > > Pointers/suggestions would be appreciated. > > I managed to solve the puzzle of "who is setting this", by following > the trail of breadcrumbs that I discovered by doing this: > > find /usr/X11R6 -type f -print | xargs grep -i beNiceToColormap > > (beNiceToColorMap was a resource in the same suspicious block as the > background setting). > > It seems that it's some portion of the > gnome-control-center/theme-manager/gnome-settings-daemon that's > "helping" me out with this. > > There are a bunch of relevant files in > /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/control-center-2.0/xrdb, which are being used > as templates. > > So, now the question is, how to control this behaviour. I've > currently just commented out the entries that I don't like. It sounds > like KDE has a check-box somewhere that controls whether it applies > colors etc... to non-kde apps. Is there something like that in gnome > that I've missed? I don't see anywhere in gconf that this can be controlled. You might be able to trick gnome-settings-daemon by creating bogus .ad files in ~/.gnome2/xrdb. Joe > > g. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/lcdbb2iPiv4Uz4cRArOdAJ9x+OOvoFAffjXL5ufe57zJ1tMoeQCdE6hY xrI/l36JtHiQ27OwNe9bM90= =XHUC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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