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tseug

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Registered: 2010-11-03

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Regarding Gnome Themes

Hello,

I'm trying to use the Equinox engine and theme for Gnome, but when I have the theme selected it says the engine isn't installed when I have already installed it from source. Does anyone know what the potential reason for this would be?

Hund

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Re: Regarding Gnome Themes

If the theme looks like it should (?), its nothing to worry about.

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wonder

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Re: Regarding Gnome Themes

you need to install gtk-engine-equinox. the theme and the engine is in aur

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tseug

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Re: Regarding Gnome Themes

you need to install gtk-engine-equinox. the theme and the engine is in aur

I have already done this, compiled and installed from source from arch–stuff.org. Is it a typical solution to install from pkgbuild scripts from the AUR?

Snowknight

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Re: Regarding Gnome Themes

It's better that pacman knows about what you've installed unless you only run something locally. What options did you pass to the configure script for equinox? Check to see that there is a libequinox.so in /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/
And consider using gtk-engine-equinox from the AUR.

Last edited by Snowknight (2010-11-11 16:33:32)

tseug

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Re: Regarding Gnome Themes

It's better that pacman knows about what you've installed unless you only run something locally. What options did you pass to the configure script for equinox? Check to see that there is a libequinox.so in /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/
And consider using gtk-engine-equinox from the AUR.

Alright, so using the PKGBUILD scripts from the AUR essentially registers what I'm installing with pacman, correct?

I tried installing the equinox engine from the AUR like you suggested, and still nothing has changed. However, there is no libequinox.so in /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/. Should this be something I'm doing as root, or just on a per-user basis?

Thank you for your suggestions!

EDIT:
I installed using the PKGBUILD from the following link: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35808

Initially I didn't use any options to the configure script, then at the equinox engine page (http://arch-stuff.org/content/show.php/ … ent=121881) I tried passing ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-animation since I am using the x86_64 architecture. Both attempts didn't work.

Last edited by tseug (2010-11-11 17:22:58)

Snowknight

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Re: Regarding Gnome Themes

Arch doesn't create a /usr/lib64 directory. If you run x86_64, /usr/lib contains the appropriate 64-bit libraries—that libdir option is unnecessary.

Are you actually installing the package after you create it? Forgive me if this is a useless question. After you ran makepkg to create the package, did you install it with pacman -U <package filename>? Run makepkg as your normal user. Obviously you need to install the package as root or through sudo. It should install the files properly in that case. I have built and rebuilt gtk-engine-equinox several times with its AUR PKGBUILD, and it works fine. There is also a PKGBUILD for the theme: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35807. Try that as well if you'd like, though there shouldn't be any difference between it and the theme you manually copied.

Last edited by Snowknight (2010-11-12 04:57:33)