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lxappearance package

lxappearance not setting gtk theme for any user

Bug #1062586 reported by Richard Qian
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This bug affects 13 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
lxappearance (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Julien Lavergne
Saucy
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

When I try to use LXAppearance to set a theme, it does not write a gtkrc file for any user, including root. Is there any way I can get verbose information about what this program is doing?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: lxappearance 0.5.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.27-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 5 17:06:11 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=POSIX
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lxappearance
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-05 (0 days ago)

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Richard Qian (worldblender) wrote :
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Julien Lavergne (gilir) wrote :

Under which session do you try to use LXAppearance ? Lubuntu ? Unity ? Openbox ?

Changed in lxappearance (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Richard Qian (worldblender) wrote :

I tried to set the gtk theme outside of any session manager, using only a window manager.

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Evan Comes (yggdrasil343) wrote :

Happens to me too.

Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal
Installed via Minimal CD

When I run lxappearance from xterm, it spits out the following on startup:

[code]
(lxappearance:4985): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(lxappearance:4985): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(lxappearance:4985): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(lxappearance:4985): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(lxappearance:4985): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(lxappearance:4985): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(lxappearance:4985): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(lxappearance:4985): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
[/code]

And then, when I try to apply any themes, it outputs this:

[code]
(lxappearance:4985): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_key_file_set_string: assertion `string != NULL' failed

(lxappearance:4985): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_key_file_set_string: assertion `string != NULL' failed

(lxappearance:4985): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_key_file_set_string: assertion `string != NULL' failed
[/code]

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Gao Shichao (xgdgsc) wrote :

I am using awesome and found this bug.

Changed in lxappearance (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Mélodie (meets) wrote :

Hi,
I can't get Lxappearance to work anymore either. In Precise it behaved strange, changing the content for the gtk2 theme as well as the gtk3 theme.

I have ugraded directly from Precise to Raring in a full Openbox version containing just a few items from Lxde, such as Lxpanel and Lxappearance, and in Raring 13.04 the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini files do not benefit from any change.

I tried to start lxappearance from the console, it does not return any output. It seemed to have done the job : just changing one font type and size, and when closing it does not provide any error message. But it does just nothing.

Thanks for fixing it.
Mélodie

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M4he (mahe) wrote :

I replaced the LXDE session with a standalone Openbox session on a freshly installed Lubuntu 13.04 and lxappearance does not work for me either. In addition to that, a second invoke of lxappearance (after closing the first one) always freezes the whole screen for me.

Julien Lavergne (gilir)
Changed in lxappearance (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → In Progress
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Julien Lavergne (gilir)
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Julien Lavergne (gilir) wrote :

A fixed version will be available in https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-dev/+archive/staging soon. Please test it and report back if it's working for you.

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Jimmy John (slauncha2k) wrote :

I ran into the same issue as the OP where lxappearance would not actually write config files and a g_key_file_set_string error was printed on the command line. The updated 0.5.2-1ubuntu2.1~ppa1 version removed the error messages and allowed lxappearance to properly update config files.

Thanks!

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Julien Lavergne (gilir) wrote :

Fixed in Trusty. An SRU is needed to update saucy with 0.5.2-1ubuntu2.1~ppa1 version.

Changed in lxappearance (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

saucy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the saucy task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".

Changed in lxappearance (Ubuntu Saucy):
status: New → Won't Fix
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