QTCurve theme doesn't work for GTK apps all of a sudden

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#1

I want to use my QTCurve theme for GTK apps. This has worked great for several months on opensuse 11.2, and suddenly it broke. I do not know what made it broke, purhaps some kind of system update…

The gtk-Qtcurve engines are installed (both 32 and 64 bit). I tried linking the gtkrc file from /usr/share/themes/QtCurve/gtk-2.0 towards /etc/gtk-2.0 but that didn’t help either.

Can somebody help me out? I can change the GTK themes to whatever theme, except to QTCurve…

#2

Please post output of


rpm -qa | grep qtcurve

Output from my laptop, where this works:


glosscomputer@LapTop:~> rpm -qa | grep qtcurve
qtcurve-gtk2-32bit-0.68.0-2.3.1.x86_64
qtcurve-gtk2-0.68.0-2.3.1.x86_64
qtcurve-kde4-1.2.0-26.4.x86_64
#3

qtcurve-kde4-1.2.0-5.1.x86_64
qtcurve-gtk2-32bit-0.68.0-2.3.1.x86_64
qtcurve-gtk2-0.68.0-2.3.1.x86_64
qtcurve-kde-0.59.5-3.1.x86_64

I don’t see any problem in this. I suspect I have to link the correct gtkrc file in the correct directory. But don’t know which ones. Remember, it has worked before and I didn’t uninstall anything of qtcurve…

#4

Aha, found something!

It seems that the GTK apps are using the default QTCurve settings, which look A LOT different from my agua QTcurve settings.

So I have to make the GTK apps use the same custom aqua style as the QT apps… Does somebody know how?

#5

You are running different versions of qtcurve. Look at the version numbers. The qtcurve gtk2 packages show 0.68 while the qtcurve kde4 packages show 1.2.0.

I would suggest to you that you install an up to date version of qtcurve. That way you should get the most out of it. Me, I am using this repo at the moment for anything qtcurve:
Index of /repositories/home:/pantsgolem:/qtcurve/openSUSE_11.2_KDE4_UNSTABLE_Desktop

There isn’t anything besides the 1.3.x versions of the various qtcurve packages in this repo, so it should not be the cause for any problems.

#6

Indeed, the version is different. But the repo you suggest is unstable so I prefer not to install those packages. And I don’t think that is the root of the problem because it was working before with these versions.

The problem I think is this:
/usr/share/themes/QtCurve/gtk-2.0/gtkrc is setup to use the default QTCurve settings

…
style “qtcurve-pathbutton” = "qtcurve-default"
{
GtkButton::child_displacement_x = 0
GtkButton::child_displacement_y = 0
}

style “qtcurve-toolbar” = "qtcurve-default"
{
GtkButton::default_border = { 0, 0, 0, 0 }
GtkButton::default_outside_border = { 0, 0, 0, 0 }
GtkWidget::interior_focus = 1
GtkButton::child_displacement_x = 1
GtkButton::child_displacement_y = 1
GtkOptionMenu::focus-padding = 0
GtkWidget::focus-padding = 1
}
…

So this gtkrc file does not reflect the QTCurve settings that KDE is using (currently agua style). Instead it always uses the default style. So I need a gtkrc file which reflects my custom QtCurve-Agua style, but don’t know where to find it. I remember I had to copy some gtkrc or stylerc of qtcurverc file to some directory to get it work for the first time. But I can’t remember which file and where to place it;).

Any ideas?

#7

Alternatively, you could try this repo:
Index of /repositories/home:/cornelisbb/openSUSE_11.2
I had been using this one in fact myself for 1.2.x, however I wanted 1.3.x so badly, I switched to the repo I linked to above. Now I realize this repo also holds qtcurve 1.3.x, so maybe you want to give this one a try? (The downside is that it is not so neat and tidy, and holds othe things besides qtcurve.)

No, I don’t think it is that. I looked at that file on my system and it says exactly the same except that there are three additional lines. The two lines
style “qtcurve-pathbutton” = “qtcurve-default”
…
style “qtcurve-toolbar” = “qtcurve-default”
are there in any case.

No, except maybe to point out that I never had to move any files to get qtcurve to work at all.

#8

I installed version 1.2 and it got fixed! Thanks for the help!!