Hi all, I used to think it was enough to set GTK2_RC_FILES to override the current theme for a given GTK2 app. And then I came across this: Take ubuntu trusty, current theme set to Ambiance. Say we want to run geeqie (gtk2) with a dark theme (AmbianceDark) from http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=161649 Setting GTK2_RC_FILES doesn't work, Ambiance theme is still used. (not a problem with the theme, works perfectly fine on its own) It gets even weirder, trying to override it with other themes you get into situations where it works (BlackMATE for example) or where both themes get mixed up (?!) So I started suspecting that both GTK2_RC_FILES and current theme were getting used and somehow mixed up / clashing with each other. Indeed strace shows both are getting read, and if access to Ambiance theme is blocked it now works (!) Best workaround I found so far is to set GTK_DATA_PREFIX to some dummy value so that current theme's files are not found: GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/AmbianceDark/gtk-2.0/gtkrc GTK_DATA_PREFIX="" Which seems quite a hack, not sure what other side effects this will have... Question: Is this a bug or my understanding of how GTK2_RC_FILES works ? Shouldn't GTK ignore the current theme altogether when GTK2_RC_FILES is set ? Surely themes don't seem to be expected to use globally unique style names ... Cheers -- lemonsqueeze _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
