Salix OS

Could it be something with your GTK theme? Try switching back to the default.

gapan wrote:Could it be something with your GTK theme? Try switching back to the default.

I actually tried several themes. It seems like the only ones that work are the ones that came pre-installed.

edit: I'm in another distro at the moment but I will check again.

Maybe the only themes that work are the ones that are globally installed?

gapan wrote:Maybe the only themes that work are the ones that are globally installed?

actually I ran qtconfig again and tried to select the default desktop? and I got this...
louis[~]$ qtconfig
link path-main hasn't been detected!
link path-main hasn't been detected!
link path-main hasn't been detected!
link path-main hasn't been detected!
link path-main hasn't been detected!
link path-main hasn't been detected!

maybe I just have a bad install.

ok, I can select all the possible options, cde, clearlooks, motif, windows and whatever else is in qtconfig except for GTK+ and Default.

gapan wrote:Maybe the only themes that work are the ones that are globally installed?

I tried themes in both ~/home/louis/.themes and /usr/shared/themes

are there any qt apps installed in the beta or something I could try? because all the GTK+ apps work fine.

I created a new user and that didn't help either. I think I'm going to have some dinner. later

loukingjr wrote:ok, I can select all the possible options, cde, clearlooks, motif, windows and whatever else is in qtconfig except for GTK+ and Default.

Why can't you select the GTK+ one or the default one?

loukingjr wrote:are there any qt apps installed in the beta or something I could try? because all the GTK+ apps work fine.

No. No qt apps are installed by default. You can try to install some more, like clementine, qbittorrent, qmpp, unetbootin...

gapan wrote:

loukingjr wrote:ok, I can select all the possible options, cde, clearlooks, motif, windows and whatever else is in qtconfig except for GTK+ and Default.

Why can't you select the GTK+ one or the default one?

actually I ran qtconfig again and tried to select the default desktop? and I got this...
louis[~]$ qtconfig
link path-main hasn't been detected!
link path-main hasn't been detected!
link path-main hasn't been detected!
link path-main hasn't been detected!
link path-main hasn't been detected!
link path-main hasn't been detected!

I can select them, it's just as I stated before, if I run qtconfig in a terminal I get the "can't determine the GTK+ theme" message. And if I click on default I get the above message.

hi, im the guy who messed up my lilo. i reinstalled and used the expert lilo mode, all is perfect now. thanks for the reply, you guys got me on the right track, i think that booting from usb was switching sda & sdb and i was too dimwitted to notice. sorry, i feel a little silly now. oh well, operator error.

everything is fixed now ttyl..........dan

How and when is slapt-update-notifier supposed to run because I haven't seen any notifications since installing beta1 and I just noticed a number packages that needed to be updated?

Thanks.