Re: LXAppearance and LXSession
Posted: 15. Sep 2010, 22:40
zachary, you got it right. But a settings demon is not a session manager 
True. x1thenktor wrote:AFAIK LXappearance just modifies the .gtkrc-2.0 file. Nothing else is needed.
True. x2thenktor wrote:zachary, you got it right. But a settings demon is not a session manager
Exactly! I only noticed yesterday that /sbin/pidof lxsession is not running at all.Duncan_Idaho wrote:maybe it has to do with how gnome and xfce manage their sessions, I guess
My problem was that I've used gnome-settings-daemon (on GNOME) or xfsettingsd (on Xfce) and LXAppearance can't affect the GTK+ applications when one of these settings demons is running at the same time... I feel so stupid
but, at least, I got smarter 
I figured this out when I've seen thenktor's Openbox autostart.sh, no session manager or settings demon was there whatsoever, and thenktor, of course, is using fancy GTK+ themes [screenshot], and I remember that I received this annotation from ray.
Offtopic:
I've also found today a really nice feature of the popup delay time of gtk+ menus
add to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file one of these lines:
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gtk-menu-popup-delay = 1
gtk-menu-popup-delay=4000
gtk-menu-popup-delay=2000