Re: metacity warning

On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 17:46, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 15:44, Robert Claeson wrote:
> > I use Metacity, and it works for me after the upgrade. But, I have a few
> > themes installed of my own. However, at some point in time, a number of
> > weeks ago, an upgrade caused Metacity to use just the default theme and
> > not the theme I had specified.
> 
> Did you kill and restart metacity? Simply replacing the binary by
> install new RPMs does not restart the window manager.

Yup, it works even after a reboot.

> (btw, that point in time when only the default theme worked was probably
> when Havoc changed the theme format)
> 
> > What is the new place that Metacity uses to look for user-installed
> > themes?
> 
> The notice is in the changelog:
> 
>         * src/theme-parser.c (meta_theme_load): look for themes in
>         ~/.themes/NAME/metacity-1/ and datadir/themes/NAME/metacity-1
>         instead of the old locations.
> 
> So TigertCrack which used to be in ~/.metacity/themes/TigertCrack is now
> ~/.themes/TigertCrack/metacity-1

Ah, I should read the notes more carefully in the future. Thank's,

Robert

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