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Bug 121601 - Can't select a theme for metacity with gnome-theme-manager
Can't select a theme for metacity with gnome-theme-manager
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] theme-manager
2.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-09-06 10:20 UTC by Marcin Krzyzanowski
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.3/2.4


Description Marcin Krzyzanowski 2003-09-06 10:20:00 UTC 
"
I really want to know why metacity is mandatory to select a theme ?

Window manager warning: Failed to read theme from file
/usr/share/themes/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml: Failed to open file
'/usr/share/themes/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml': No such file or directory
"

as described in #103061, but it is still not fixed in 2.3.x

metacity-2.5.5-1
control-center-2.3.6-1
Comment 1 Andrew Sobala 2003-09-08 00:08:48 UTC 
The bug's already filed. You don't need to file another report, thanks.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103061 ***
Comment 2 Marcin Krzyzanowski 2003-09-10 22:05:49 UTC 
theme-switcher doesn't apply theme for metacity, but in the same time
it set themes for the rest.

I have metacity installed.
Comment 3 Andrew Sobala 2003-09-10 22:42:59 UTC 
Does /usr/share/themes/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml not exist?
Comment 4 Artur Flinta 2003-09-11 05:44:43 UTC 
no, it doesn't
Comment 5 Luis Villa 2003-09-11 13:09:02 UTC 
This works fine here. Do you have a custom or hand-tweaked metacity
theme installed?
Comment 6 Marcin Krzyzanowski 2003-09-11 13:25:33 UTC 
currently I have bluecurve from redhat-artwork, but I've trying with 
clean themes metacity and gnome-themes, erase gnome configuration 
from $HOME, and it shows the same.
Comment 7 Marcin Krzyzanowski 2003-09-18 19:33:39 UTC 
I find out that 

line (about 805):
control-center/capplets/theme-switcher/gnome-theme-manager.c
 window_manager = gnome_wm_manager_get_current
(gdk_display_get_default_screen (gdk_display_get_default ()));

return NULL, don't know why yet, any ideas ?

metacity-2.6.1
control-center-2.4.0
Comment 8 Marcin Krzyzanowski 2003-09-20 17:49:53 UTC 
ok, I fix it, problem were in our .spec file because metacity.desktop
was not in /usr/share/gnome/wm-properties/ as it control-center expect.
it was in /usr/share/wm-properties/ (this is where we keep twm.desktop
from XFree86), shouldn't gnome check this directory either ????

So, seems distribution related problem.

I close this bug.