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    Unhappy themes don't work in edgy gnome?

    I have updated to edgy just recently, and now only the Human theme seems to work. I had a few extra themes installed, and downloaded a couple more.
    Now, when I change to any of those themes (few of them were working 100% on dapper) only metacity theme gets applied. The GTK theme is removed, and only colors get applied, no images are used as if there were missing. No files are missing, the themes that used to work (for example VistaBut) fail to work now, one I downloaded today (Neutronium) fails as well.
    Those themes are from gnome-look.org. Can anyone help?

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    Re: themes don't work in edgy gnome?

    Exactly the same problem here. I would also like to get a solution for this problem. All my GTK themes that work well in Dapper don't work well in edgy.

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    Re: themes don't work in edgy gnome?

    Code:
    sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-pixbuf
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    Re: themes don't work in edgy gnome?

    It's already installed. So that's not it. Any other ideas?

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    Re: themes don't work in edgy gnome?

    That's weird. You should try to install gtk-engines-pixmap too.
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    Re: themes don't work in edgy gnome?

    There's no gtk-engines-pixmap in edgy's repositories. That might be the cause, but since it's not available there's no way to fix the problem

    //EDIT:
    Ok, so I downloaded that package from packages.ubuntu.com (version 0.12-8), but that still doesn't fix the problem. At least not without a reboot. I'll check that soon.
    //EDIT2:
    Nothing changed after I installed that package. Perhaps you have some more ideas?
    Last edited by Master Ar2ro; October 30th, 2006 at 08:45 PM.

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    Re: themes don't work in edgy gnome?

    Quote Originally Posted by Master Ar2ro View Post
    Perhaps you have some more ideas?
    Are you sure your themes don't need any exotic engine like Murrine or Candido/Rezlooks to work? I can't imagine anything else, you should contact one of the theme creators, probably he'll know what the problem is.
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    Re: themes don't work in edgy gnome?

    All pixmaps themes don't work out of the box for some reason. In synaptic if you install gtk2-engines-pixbuf it will be fixed. Worked for me. And yeah, check if you're using a theme that uses an engine you don't have.

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    Re: themes don't work in edgy gnome?

    Quote Originally Posted by anodizer View Post
    Are you sure your themes don't need any exotic engine like Murrine or Candido/Rezlooks to work? I can't imagine anything else, you should contact one of the theme creators, probably he'll know what the problem is.
    Yes, I'm sure they don't need any of those engines, as both state:
    Code:
      engine "pixmap"
      {
    I can try contacting the theme creators, but as I said earlier, at least one of those themes worked under dapper, so the problem lies most probably in edgy.

    Quote Originally Posted by kyoushu
    In synaptic if you install gtk2-engines-pixbuf it will be fixed. Worked for me.
    But the problem is that I already have that engine installed and still nothing works.

    Thanks for trying anyway, guess I'll be left with only the standard theme for a while...

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    Re: themes don't work in edgy gnome?

    Ok, I managed to get it to work. I completely removed gtk2-engines-pixbuf and gtk-engines-pixmap and them reinstalled them, though I still don't know why it didn't work earlier, since the versions installed are the same...

    Thanks for your help

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