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satya164 / gtk-theme-config

A tool to configure GTK theme colors.
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Background color of highlighted text remains unchanged in gtk2 apps #11

Closed wfdctrl closed 10 years ago

wfdctrl commented 10 years ago

The title basically says it all, the background of highlighted text doesn't change. There doesn't seem to be anything in gtkrc-2.0 file (other then "#Custom styles") and this error message is displayed every time I click apply: "Could not display notification: Failed to execute child process "notify-send" (No such file or directory)".

Also gtkrc-2.0 is cleared every time I apply new settings, so I have to reset the theme by hand (which doesn't really bother me, but just so you know). I am using Arch, i3 without gnome, and Numix theme.

satya164 commented 10 years ago

Did you turn on the toggles?

Also, you don't seem to have latest version, since the latest version doesn't use 'notify-send', instead uses libnotify?

wfdctrl commented 10 years ago

Yes the appropriate toggles are turned on, and the setting works wonderfully for gtk3.

I installed the gtk-theme-config-git package form AUR, which should get the latest snapshot of the repository, but that surprisingly didn't happen (might be because the package is now orphaned). Anyways I compiled the program by hand and the error is gone, but unfortunately it still doesn't work.

I assume the program should add something to the gtkrc-2.0 file (which is the case with all other settings that work), but as I mentioned earlier, the file is almost empty after the program is run with only text highlighting setting turned on.

wfdctrl commented 10 years ago

I did some more research and it appears that a lot of arch users have issues with setting gtk2 color schemes, so there is probably nothing wrong with your program. Thank you anyway for taking the time to reply.