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How do themes work on win32?

April 26, 2017themes Win32

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How do themes work on win32?

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• The standard location for themes is /share/themes. You can drop any theme you want in there. • Theme engines go into /lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0/engines. The only one included in the standard package is libwimp.dll. Themes bluecurve, cleanice, galaxy, industrial, thincream, thinice, xfce, pixbuf have been successfully built and used – it should be quite straightforward if you have the GTK Dev package installed (Tyler used Visual C++ 6, Fabien used MinGW). A patch was submitted to sourceforge to request the inclusion of the precompiled engines and associated themes in the main distro a while ago; check the patches page on [sourceforge.net] . The tricky bit is how to tell GTK on Windows which theme to use. There are at least 3 ways to do this (though I have only tested 2): • Rename the theme folder in share/themes to ‘Default’. This will then be the one used on the next execution of your GTK app. • Copy the gtkrc from the theme directory you want into /etc/gt