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Date:      Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:55:07 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: who's setting a wild-card'ed background color resource.
Message-ID:  <1066780507.97635.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <16277.47059.927449.720954@rosebud.alerce.com>
References:  <16277.26860.235109.20911@rosebud.alerce.com> <16277.47059.927449.720954@rosebud.alerce.com>

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On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 18:48, George Hartzell wrote:
> George Hartzell writes:
>  >=20
>  > I just got done updating ports on my 4.8 (4.8-RELEASE-p7) laptop,
>  > using the current ports tree (as of a couple of days ago).
>  >=20
>  > [...]
>  >=20
>  > The problem is: my custom background colors have disappeared.
>  >=20
>  > [...]
>  >=20
>  > I think what's killing me is this resource:
>  >=20
>  >   *background:    #dcdad5
>  >=20
>  > [...]
>  >=20
>  > I can't figure out where it's getting set.  Is is part of one of the
>  > myriad themes that the various gnome things use?
>  >=20
>  > Pointers/suggestions would be appreciated.
>=20
> I managed to solve the puzzle of "who is setting this", by following
> the trail of breadcrumbs that I discovered by doing this:
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>     find /usr/X11R6 -type f -print | xargs grep -i beNiceToColormap
>=20
> (beNiceToColorMap was a resource in the same suspicious block as the
> background setting).
>=20
> It seems that it's some portion of the
> gnome-control-center/theme-manager/gnome-settings-daemon that's
> "helping" me out with this.
>=20
> There are a bunch of relevant files in
> /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/control-center-2.0/xrdb, which are being used
> as templates.
>=20
> So, now the question is, how to control this behaviour.  I've
> currently just commented out the entries that I don't like.  It sounds
> like KDE has a check-box somewhere that controls whether it applies
> colors etc... to non-kde apps.  Is there something like that in gnome
> that I've missed?

I don't see anywhere in gconf that this can be controlled.  You might be
able to trick gnome-settings-daemon by creating bogus .ad files in
~/.gnome2/xrdb.

Joe

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