Ubuntu
gtk2-engines-qtcurve package

Appearance of gtk applications in kde as root

Bug #598812 reported by Yannis Tsop
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gtk2-engines-qtcurve (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gtk2-engines-qtcurve

when I use a gtk application as administrator (synaptic), the appearance is ugly, it does not take into account the configuration with gtk-qt-engine and gtk2-engines-qtcurve or otherwise.

the following solves the problem:

sudo cp ~/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4 /root/.gtkrc-2.0

That is, you copy your GTK-settings into the /root-directory. Note that the "-kde4" is missing in the root-folder.

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Zachary Richey (zachary.r) wrote :

This is normal behavior, because when you use synaptic as root ( via sudo or otherwise ) it uses the graphical settings from root's home directory instead of the ones from your home directory.

Since this is normal behavior i am invalidating this bug.

Changed in gtk2-engines-qtcurve (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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Yannis Tsop (ogiannhs) wrote :

and why there should not be any valid graphical settings in the home directory of the root user?

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