Simon Steinbeiß
2015-Feb-17 19:42 UTC
[LightDM] Is it that lightdm-gtk-greeter will not with Xfce-dusk theme? Why?
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:47:10 +0200 Sophoklis Goumas <olspookishmagus at gmail.com> wrote:> Hello, after updating my /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf as follows: > theme-name=Xfce-dusk > > I don't get to see the desired effect applied. > > Why is it so?Likely because you're using the gtk3 version of the greeter and Xfce-dusk doesn't support Gtk3. Alternatively it could be that you have the theme in a not publicly accessible folder (e.g. /home/$user/) hence the greeter cannot read it. Or just messed up file permissions. Cheers Simon
Sophoklis Goumas
2015-Feb-17 20:47 UTC
[LightDM] Is it that lightdm-gtk-greeter will not with Xfce-dusk theme? Why?
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Simon Steinbeiß <simon at xfce.org> wrote:> On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:47:10 +0200 > > Likely because you're using the gtk3 version of the greeter and Xfce-dusk doesn't support Gtk3. > Alternatively it could be that you have the theme in a not publicly accessible folder (e.g. /home/$user/) hence the greeter cannot read it. Or just messed up file permissions. >Your first hypothesis must be correct as: $ ls -ldR /usr/share/themes/Xfce-dusk/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 11 02:23 /usr/share/themes/Xfce-dusk/ $ ls -ld /usr/share/themes/Xfce-dusk/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 11 02:23 /usr/share/themes/Xfce-dusk/ $ ls -lR /usr/share/themes/Xfce-dusk/ /usr/share/themes/Xfce-dusk/: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 11 02:23 gtk-2.0 /usr/share/themes/Xfce-dusk/gtk-2.0: total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5292 May 21 2013 gtkrc $ I guess then I need to create a gtk3 version of Xfce-dusk. Thanks for your help, Sophoklis