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#1 2015-05-22 19:12:38
- Slithery
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[SOLVED] Moving GTK2 configuration to XDG_CONFIG_HOME.
I'm quite pedantic about the layout of my home folder.
To that end I prefer to use applications that either place their configuration files in ~/.config by default or can be persuaded to put them there (take a look at the dotfiles link in my signature to see what I mean).
One application that doesn't do this that can't be replaced by an alternative is GTK2 and its ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file, so my question is this...
Would I have to recompile GTK2 to alter this behaviour and how much of a hassle would this be (ie is gtk2 a large package that would take hours to re-compile every update), or is there an easier solution?
Any pointers on where to start would be appreciated.
Last edited by Slithery (2015-05-22 23:07:48)
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#2 2015-05-22 22:26:55
- Raynman
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Re: [SOLVED] Moving GTK2 configuration to XDG_CONFIG_HOME.
I had to set $GTK2_RC_FILES to get Qt(4?) to recognize my GTK theme. I haven't tried it with a non-standard location, but maybe that also works for GTK apps?
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#3 2015-05-22 23:06:47
- Slithery
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Re: [SOLVED] Moving GTK2 configuration to XDG_CONFIG_HOME.
Cheers Raynman, you've just made my OCD side a lot happier.
Adding the following to my xinitrc did the trick...
export GTK2_RC_FILES=~/.config/gtk-2.0/gtkrc-2.0Offline