Bugzilla – Bug 115353
Problematic Advanced Theme Settings in GNOME
Last modified: 2006-04-25 20:20:44 UTC
Changing the GNOME theme to "QT" in the Advanced Theme Settings dialogue caused a number of dialogues popping up about windows not responding, Nautilus wanting to be shutdown or restarted, etc. Sorry, I did not get all the specific messages. The whole session went wild, with me needing to use [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Bspace] to exit. Afterwards, every time I launched GNOME, Nautilus would start-crash, start-crash, start-crash, etc. in un-stoppable fashion. Whether I clicked to close Nautilus or restart it, it kept restarting on its own, and then crashing. I again used [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Bspace] to exit. Things had worked fine until I changed the theme settings under "Advanced". "QT" was the specific option I chose. Is this a valid theme option for GNOME?
I'm not sure what you mean by the "Advanced Theme Settings" dialog. Do you mean the dialog you access going to the GNOME control center?
(In reply to comment #1) > I'm not sure what you mean by the "Advanced Theme Settings" dialog. Do you mean > the dialog you access going to the GNOME control center? GNOME Control Center --> Theme --> Theme Details. On the Controls tab "QT" is one of the selections. When I highlighted 'QT', and then closed out, I got several error messages. I decided to try a fresh installation of SUSE, which won't help in terms of figuring out how to solve the problem, but it does let me back into GNOME without problems. I just tried the same thing, and here is what happened. I successfully got it to use the 'QT' controls theme. I re-opened the Theme Details dialogue (to change things back) and, upon clicking another controls theme (can't see it, as that part of the window is pure white right now) I got a series of error messages about various apps/applets quitting unexpectedly: - netapplet - gnome-volume-manager - resapplet - gnome-theme-manager - nautilus - battstat-applet-2 - gnome-panel - gnome-control-center - evolution-exchange-storage - notification-area-applet - clock-applet - wnck-applet After closing all of these message boxes, I now have the error message reading: <> 'The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_ShowDesktopApplet". <>'The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_WorkspaceSwitcherApplet". <>'The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_WindowListApplet". The options are to delete or not delete the applet. I'll try using the 'Don't Delete' option on each one. That worked, and I was able to logout and back into GNOME without problems. Still, the theme details tools seem a bit flaky.
Not seeing this in final, can you still replicate?
Aha, I can replicate this, I missed the bit about restoring it in the same session. Trace looks something like: #0 0x00002aaaaeaf6ea5 in waitpid () from /lib64/tls/libpthread.so.0 #1 0x00002aaaaaf53cf7 in libgnomeui_module_info_get () from /opt/gnome/lib64/libgnomeui-2.so.0 #2 <signal handler called> #3 0x00002aaab37912d0 in ?? () #4 0x00002aaaac21f225 in gdk_events_pending () from /opt/gnome/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 #5 0x00002aaaac220adf in gdk_screen_get_setting () from /opt/gnome/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 #6 0x00002aaaac2223e8 in gdk_screen_get_setting () from /opt/gnome/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 #7 0x00002aaaac22245e in gdk_screen_get_setting () from /opt/gnome/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 #8 0x00002aaaaec2c54d in g_main_context_dispatch () from /opt/gnome/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #9 0x00002aaaaec2f6ef in g_main_context_check () from /opt/gnome/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #10 0x00002aaaaec2f99a in g_main_loop_run () from /opt/gnome/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #11 0x00002aaaabed7ad0 in gtk_main () from /opt/gnome/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #12 0x0000000000404ecb in main () It seems to be only QT widget theme, could be a qindustrial bug.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 163190 ***