Gnome-color-chooser (gtkrc?) refuses to work [SOLVED]

Hide · 2010-08-09 13:39:46

I wanted to change my panel font color and after some hassle and a bit of googling, I ran into gnome-color-chooser. Made the desired changes, applied and nothing happened. I then copied the content of .gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser to .gtkrc-2.0 directly, to no avail. I even restarted my panel and still no change. Mind that every manual change in .gtkrc2.0 (icon theme, theme, etc) works flawlessly.
Any ideas?

I'm using gnome-color-chooser 0.2.5 and xfce4-panel 4.6.4.

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by Hide (2010-08-11 09:22:04)

thayer · 2010-08-09 15:11:28

Doesn't sound like so much of an issue with gnome-color-chooser as it does with the panel itself. You've probably already tried this, but in my case I have to logout/in again before any GTK theme changes are applied. If I misunderstood the problem, you can always use gcolor2, another colour picker.

Stebalien · 2010-08-09 16:35:49

Can you post your .gtkrc-2.0 file?

Hide · 2010-08-09 18:21:26

@thayer
I use gtk-chtheme, so themes change on-click. Even when I messed with themess gtkrc files, I only had to "reload" a theme (e.g. select another one and then revert it back to the desired, edited one), for the changes to take effect. I will try logging out/in, definitely

@Stebalien
Sure

.gtkrc-2.0:

include "/usr/share/themes/MurrinaGraphiteGentle/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
gtk-icon-theme-name="Meliae"

include ".gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser"

.gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser:

pixmap_path "/home/hide/.gnome-color-chooser/images/"

style "gnome-color-chooser-panel"
{
  fg[NORMAL] = "#FF0000" //red is merely for testing purposes, I love my eyes too much :D
}
class "PanelTopLevel.*" style "gnome-color-chooser-panel"
widget_class "*PanelApplet*" style "gnome-color-chooser-panel"
widget_class "*PanelWidget*" style "gnome-color-chooser-panel"
widget "*fast-user-switch-applet*" style "gnome-color-chooser-panel"

Last edited by Hide (2010-08-09 18:22:31)

Stebalien · 2010-08-09 19:28:06

Try widget instead of widget_class. You may also need `text[NORMAL] = "#FF0000"`.

Hide · 2010-08-10 07:20:34

@thayer
Login/logout didn't do the trick

@Stebalien
Nope, no results.

Hide · 2010-08-10 14:37:01

@thayer
You were right about one thing. It seems that there's a problem with the xfce4-panel. I installed gnome-panel, changed the color, and everything went seamlessly

I've seen someone on the forum with the same panel and that person had no problems whatsoever.

Maybe something's wrong with my setup. A bug maybe?

edit:
I found this on the xfce4 forum and it works:

style "panel"
{
  fg[NORMAL] = "#ff0000"
}

widget_class "*Panel*"      style "panel"
widget "*Panel*"            style "panel"
class "*Panel*"             style "panel"

I'm going to label the topic as [SOLVED], no problem, I'd just like to know how the above code differs from the one generated by gnome-color-chooser.

edit2: typo

Last edited by Hide (2010-08-10 14:45:04)

Stebalien · 2010-08-11 03:39:10

Gnome-color-chooser works with GNOME, not XFCE. The xfce4-panel probably doesn't use PanelApplet and PanelWidget widgets so you need to match Panel widgets.

Hide · 2010-08-11 09:21:48

Heh, good to know. Thanks everyone for the input.

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#1 2010-08-09 13:39:46

Gnome-color-chooser (gtkrc?) refuses to work [SOLVED]

#2 2010-08-09 15:11:28

Re: Gnome-color-chooser (gtkrc?) refuses to work [SOLVED]

#3 2010-08-09 16:35:49

Re: Gnome-color-chooser (gtkrc?) refuses to work [SOLVED]

#4 2010-08-09 18:21:26

Re: Gnome-color-chooser (gtkrc?) refuses to work [SOLVED]

#5 2010-08-09 19:28:06

Re: Gnome-color-chooser (gtkrc?) refuses to work [SOLVED]

#6 2010-08-10 07:20:34

Re: Gnome-color-chooser (gtkrc?) refuses to work [SOLVED]

#7 2010-08-10 14:37:01

Re: Gnome-color-chooser (gtkrc?) refuses to work [SOLVED]

#8 2010-08-11 03:39:10

Re: Gnome-color-chooser (gtkrc?) refuses to work [SOLVED]

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Re: Gnome-color-chooser (gtkrc?) refuses to work [SOLVED]

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