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slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

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themes stopped working right in xfce4 [solved]

suddenly half my themes don't work right anymore. the ones that don't work just default to some basic blue theme.

for example, here's candido-neographite:
http://datadump.homelinux.com/~sero/gif … andido.jpg

and here's darklooks:
http://datadump.homelinux.com/~sero/gif … klooks.jpg

I don't know what those are, but you can see they're not graphite or darklooks!

the standard xfce4 ones seem to work, but not much else. I moved the ~/.config/xfce4 directory and restarted X, thinking that something got corrupted, but the problem persisted even with the newly created default directory. anyone have any ideas?

Last edited by slackhack (2008-08-01 13:13:03)

hypnos

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From: Poland, Jarocin

Registered: 2006-12-05

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Re: themes stopped working right in xfce4 [solved]

IHMO it has something to do with GTK engines. Try to reinstall them.

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slackhack

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Re: themes stopped working right in xfce4 [solved]

After you said that, I remembered that I had installed gtk-candido and murrine engines a while ago, so I thought that might be it. But I just reinstalled gtk-engines, gtk-xfce-engine, and just to be sure gtk-smooth-engine, and it didn't help. 

I removed candido/murrine with -Rd, but I wonder if there's anything left over that's lingering that I have to clear out manually somehow?

hypnos

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From: Poland, Jarocin

Registered: 2006-12-05

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Re: themes stopped working right in xfce4 [solved]

The "-Rd' option generally sweeps all from system. You can make a little test - create a new account in your system and check what happens. If you get same thing, something's wrong with Arch.

By the way - do you get any errors in ie. Xorg logs? Maybe some libs are missing

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slackhack

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Re: themes stopped working right in xfce4 [solved]

good idea -- it works fine with a new test user. there must be something in my home directory screwing things up, but I can't locate anything yet. Like I said, I already tried moving the ~/.config/xfce directory and that didn't work. the only other ones in the new directory are .cache, .dbus, and .local, then when i started firefox it made a .gconf, .gconfd, etc. those seem suspcious, maybe the originals got corrupted.... testing...

[edit]: it was some kind of corruption. couldn't find the source of it, but making a new config directory solved it. thx

Last edited by slackhack (2008-08-01 13:13:59)