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alexthelion

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2004-03-06

Posts: 117

GDM forgets about which GTK+ theme to use

I can choose a GTK+ theme in GDM, but it doesn't seem to save that setting. Can anybody confirm that and maybe even give a workaround?

kpiche

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From: Ottawa, ON, Canada

Registered: 2004-03-30

Posts: 246

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Re: GDM forgets about which GTK+ theme to use

This happened to me.  One of the latest GDM upgrades installed gdm.conf with incorrect permissions.  Check the perms on /opt/gnome/etc/gdm/gdm.conf.

alexthelion

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2004-03-06

Posts: 117

Re: GDM forgets about which GTK+ theme to use

How should they be? Mine are 644, owner and group are "root"

kpiche

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From: Ottawa, ON, Canada

Registered: 2004-03-30

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Re: GDM forgets about which GTK+ theme to use

I've got:

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 18147 2005-02-28 22:06 /opt/gnome/etc/gdm/gdm.conf

Well if you can read it as a regular user then this isn't the problem.

pelle.k

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From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 667

Re: GDM forgets about which GTK+ theme to use

I seem to suffer from the same problem.
This is the gui section in /opt/gnome/share/gdm/defaults.conf

[gui]
# The specific gtkrc file we use.  It should be the full path to the gtkrc that
# we need.  Unless you need a specific gtkrc that doesn't correspond to a
# specific theme, then just use the GtkTheme key.
GtkRC=/usr/share/themes/Candido-gPerfect/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

# The GTK+ theme to use for the GUI.
#GtkTheme=Default
# If to allow changing the GTK+ (widget) theme from the greeter.  Currently
# this only affects the standard greeter as the graphical greeter does not yet
# have this ability.
#AllowGtkThemeChange=true
# Comma separated list of themes to allow.  These must be the names of the
# themes installed in the standard locations for gtk themes.  You can also
# specify 'all' to allow all installed themes.  These should be just the
# basenames of the themes such as 'Thinice' or 'LowContrast'.
#GtkThemesToAllow=all

I couldn't get it to work by uncommenting GtkTheme, AllowGtkThemeChange and GtkThemesToAllow, so i went the easy route and just added a gtkrc file in 'GtkRC=' as you can see.

Just pick one.

find /usr/share/themes/ -iname gtkrc

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