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3xOSC

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Registered: 2013-03-18

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gmrun not using my gtk

When I launch a program from 'gmrun' say, firefox or eclipse, it will default to the original gtk theme, not the one I have defined in the .config.

If I do it manually from the command line like this:

'GTK-RC_FILES=/home/myname/.config/gtk-2.0/gtkrc eclipse' it runs with the theme no problem.  Simply going 'eclipse' in the gmrun dialogue gives me the default gtk theme, not FlatStudio (the one i want).

Could someone lend me a hand?

ondoho

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Registered: 2013-04-30

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Re: gmrun not using my gtk

i don't think this is gmrun related.

do you have a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file? what's in it?

what kind of desktop environment (if any) do you run?

is eclipse a gtk2 or gtk3 application?

3xOSC

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Registered: 2013-03-18

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Re: gmrun not using my gtk

I do not have a gtkrc-2.0 file right now.

The desktop environment right now is a tiling window manager called bspwm.

I am almost certain that eclipse is gtk3

EDIT:

I just made a gtkrc-2.0 file and gmrun is obeying all of it.

However, now when I launch a program from the terminal, it does not obey the gtkrc-2.0 I just set in my $HOME.

any ideas?

Last edited by 3xOSC (2014-05-13 18:23:59)

ondoho

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Re: gmrun not using my gtk

i really don't see why this is different when you start a program from terminal or from gmrun.
maybe you have to set some environment variables...
anyhow, gtk2 and gtk3 look for rc files in different places. please inform yourself, because i know only for gtk2.