Re: gnome-theme-manager won't start up
Christian Arthaber <c3rv@gmx.at> writes:
> hi
>
> sorry to bother u twice a day: after replacing nautilus2 with
> nautilus nautilus' working again - but there are no icons visible.
> i've read somewhere else that installing gnome-icon-themes fixes
> that - but it doesn't in my case. when i read in this list that one
> could change the look auf nautilus through the gnome-theme-manager,
> i fired it up - well, at least i tried to. he doesn't start, neither
> when clicking it in the menu nor when typing it in CLI - the strange
> thing to me is that there is no error message - after a short time
> there is a task in the panel saying "starting them[hidden]", but
> this task disappears and i am back at the prompt - with an empty
> line as the only result of my trials.
Concerning the theme manager: It is buggy. Look at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103797
You can try a workaround: Temporarily stop inetd (as root)
/etc/init.d/inetd stop
Than kill any fam/famd processes (probably as root)
and then launch gnome-theme-mananger
It should complain loudly but at least show up.
Of course, this is most inconvinient. A workaround that helped me was
removing all sorts of theme packages that I don't use anyhow: the
metacity-themes package, lots of old gtk-1.2 theme packages
etc. Finally I also renamed my ~/.themes to ~/.themes.old
With barely 10 or so theme directories remaining in /usr/share/themes
I could finally start the theme-manager even without disabling
fam/inetd.
But of course this behaviour is most buggy and embarrassing. There
have been many similar complaints here on debian-gtk-gnome and I guess
also in other places. So let's hope that upstream finds a solution,
soon!
JOhannes
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