[openbox] Problems configuring Openbox

[Pedro Werneck]

Hi Mike


Well... $XDG_DATA_DIRS is not set here, so it's not the problem... 


I added the g_print()'s on all if and else blocks in the loaddb()
function, with a
number on each one. When I try to start Openbox, I get this output:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

1: s = /home/pedro/.themes/TheBear/openbox-3/themerc

(openbox-3:6122): ObRender-WARNING **: Unable to load font: Bitstream
Vera Sans:bold:pixelsize=9:shadow=y:shadowoffset=1:shadowtint=75


(openbox-3:6122): ObRender-WARNING **: Trying fallback font: sans


(openbox-3:6122): ObRender-WARNING **: Unable to load font: sans


(openbox-3:6122): Openbox-CRITICAL **: Unable to load a theme.

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The number 1 on the printed line is from this block:

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    } else {
        /* XXX backwards compatibility, remove me sometime later */
        s = g_build_filename(g_get_home_dir(), ".themes", name,
                             "openbox-3", "themerc", NULL);
        if ((db = XrmGetFileDatabase(s)))
            theme->path = g_path_get_dirname(s);

g_print("1: s = %s\n", s);

        g_free(s);
---------------------------------------------------------------------

And, of course, the theme file is there:

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werneck at ashmedai:~$ ls -l
/home/pedro/.themes/TheBear/openbox-3/themerc                     
-rw-r--r--    1 pedro.we users        3698 Nov  7 19:07
/home/pedro/.themes/TheBear/openbox-3/themerc
--------------------------------------------------------------------

So... seems like the theme file is found, but cannot be loaded. Anybody
else with this problem ? Any more ideas on what can I do ?


Thanks for the help


Pedro


On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:51:39 -0600
Mike <logan at dct.com> wrote:

> Hm, only thing I can think of offhand is maybe XDG_DATA_DIRS
> (environment variable) is set and does not contain /usr/local/share.
> 
> That variable overrides the default paths openbox will look in for
> themes. If it's set, you could append some paths to it...
> XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/share:/usr/local/share:$HOME/.local/share"
> 
> Or if you wanted to try some debugging, you could open render/theme.c,
> go to loaddb() function and add some g_print()'s.
> 
> Specifically, inside:
>         for (it = parse_xdg_data_dir_paths(); !db && it;
>              it = g_slist_next(it))
>         {
>             s = g_build_filename(it->data, "themes", name,
>                                  "openbox-3", "themerc", NULL);
>             if ((db = XrmGetFileDatabase(s)))
>                 theme->path = g_path_get_dirname(s);
> 
> g_print("s = %s\n", s); // <- HERE
> 
>             g_free(s);
>         }
> 
> --program_prefix=-3 don't cause any change to the theme paths that I
> can see.
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Friday, November 07, 2003 at 07:36PM, Pedro Werneck wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >I just installed the stable version but I have a problem configuring
> >it. Seems like it can't find the themes. 
> >
> >When I try to start it I get some warnings about fonts and the error:
> >
> >(/usr/local/bin/openbox-3:26098): Openbox-CRITICAL **: Unable to load
> >a theme.
> >
> >But I have the themes on both search paths . 
> >
> >/usr/local/share/themes/  
> >Allegro/  Artwiz/  Blah41/  Om4Ob/  TheBear/
> >
> >/home/pedro/.themes/                
> >Allegro/  Artwiz/  Blah41/  Om4Ob/  TheBear/
> >
> >
> >On my /home/pedro/.config/openbox/rc.xml (generated by ObConf 1.5) I
> >have:
> >
> ><theme>
> >  <name>TheBear</name>
> >  <titlelayout>NLIMC</titlelayout>
> ></theme>
> >
> >
> >The only unusual thing was the --program-suffix=-3 flag when building
> >it.
> >
> >I tried everything I could think of, but it doesn't work. Probably
> >it's a silly mistake, but I can't find out what is.
> >
> >Thanks for any help
> >
> >Pedro
> >
> >