default theme "Industrial" not loaded as expected

[Martin-Éric Racine]

Binary package hint: lxdm

LXDM comes with a default theme called "Industrial" which is also defined in /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf by default.

Unfortunately, that theme does not get loaded as it should.

Unless I'm mistaken, the GTK2+ theme defined there is not loaded either.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 3 21:19:32 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: lxdm 0.2.0~svn2307-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fi_FI:fi:en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-10.14+bug396286v2-generic
SourcePackage: lxdm
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-10-generic i586

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Could you please check that you don't have a file in /etc/xdg/lubuntu/lxdm ?
Also, could you test to load the greeter inside a X session to see if the theme is working ? Error displayed in the terminal could be usefull too. You should have this theme : http://blog.lxde.org/?p=595

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

I do not use lubuntu. I simply installed LXDM via apt-get to replace the new GDM with something more lightweight.

Can you provide me with the steps to load LXDM from inside an X session to produce the error logs you need?

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

You can invoke the greeter by launching /usr/lib/lxdm/lxdm-greeter-gtk . Also, could you attached your /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf ?

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

Config attached.

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

Works as it should when launched from a shell. The terminal output is as follow:

(UBUNTU)<q-funk@geode:/home/q-funk>$ LC_ALL=C /usr/lib/lxdm/lxdm-greeter-gtk
** (lxdm-greeter-gtk:10132): DEBUG: /usr/share/lxdm/themes/Industrial/gtkrc

** (lxdm-greeter-gtk:10132): WARNING **: Mapping failed for /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive: Failed to open file '/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive': open() failed: No such file or directory

** (lxdm-greeter-gtk:10132): WARNING **: Could not read list of available locales from libc, guessing possible locales from available translations, but list may be incomplete!
^C
(UBUNTU)<q-funk@geode:/home/q-funk>$

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

Having now seen what the expected result should be, I can better describe what happens:

I seem to be getting the correct GTK theme, but none of the images; no icon besides the menus and no background wallpaper.

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

Actually, it works fine when launched by remote e.g. via SSH with X11 forwarding enabled, but not locally.

When attempting to launch as root via a vcons or as a secondary application within the desktop environment via an xterm, I don't get any of the images. I also notice that most of my other GTK2+ applications lack icons in their menus and toolbars.

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

Another thing I noticed:

If I uncomment #bg=/usr/share/backgrounds/default.png and define it to an actual existing image file, I successfully get a background image.

However, I still don't get the background defined by the theme.

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

Seems that this was caused by a regression in xserver-xorg-video-geode and it's now fixed.

[icephoenix (crastapeter)]

Hi, I had the same issue and I found a file default.conf under /etc/lxdm
This file was a softlink to /etc/alternatives/lxdm.conf

Changing the theme setting in this file results in the desired effect.
I edited default.conf ( /etc/alternatives/lxdm.conf) theme setting to Industrial and Viola, problem solved :)
Hope this helps
cheers
Pete