[Mageia-dev] Weirdness with GnomeShell theme

Fri Nov 25 15:25:31 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 25/11/11 14:17 did gyre and gimble:
+> 'Twas brillig, and JA Magallon at 25/11/11 00:01 did gyre and gimble:
+>> Hi all...
+>>
+>> I have just noticed that GnomeShell is doing strange things wrt windows
+>> decorations. I've had always used the default Adwaita theme, I just
+>> like it. Only changed font sizes.
+> 
+> gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences theme 'Adwaita'
+> 
+> 
+> It seems that gnome-shell now inherits things from metacity settings (it
+> used to be separate) and thus it's getting oxygen theme by default.
+> 
+> You can override it via the above command, but I think we need to do
+> some integration testing with oxygen theme to prevent this happening.
+
+Thinking about this, it's perhaps not really an issue with Oxygen at
+all. It's maybe just that gnome now migrates settings better from gconf
+and it perhaps picked up some old data on my install.
+
+I'd need to do a fresh install to be sure.
+
+Col
+
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