detecting current theme

[twenty1grand]

Hey there,
I was wondering if anybody knew how a non-GTK application could detect the current theme that gnome is using.

There is an environment variable called GTK_RC_FILES which points me to a file called .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 which contains the following lines:

# Autowritten by gnome-settings-daemon. Do not edit

include "/home/my_user_name/.gtkrc.mine"

This file, as near as I can tell, does not exist. I know where the themes are stored and I obviously know which theme I am using but I would like to be able to have an application find out automatically.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

--twenty1grand

[sdennie]

For the gtk theme:


gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme


Icon theme:


gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme


Window manager theme can be tricky but, assuming you are using either metacity or compiz without emerald:


gconftool-2 -g /apps/metacity/general/theme

[twenty1grand]

For the gtk theme:


gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme


Icon theme:


gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme


Window manager theme can be tricky but, assuming you are using either metacity or compiz without emerald:


gconftool-2 -g /apps/metacity/general/theme




Ok I will try that, thanks.
Que aguante San Lorenso
(I used to live in Bahia Blanca and Mar del Plata)

[twenty1grand]

For the gtk theme:


gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme


Icon theme:


gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme


Window manager theme can be tricky but, assuming you are using either metacity or compiz without emerald:


gconftool-2 -g /apps/metacity/general/theme


Just tried it, thats exactly what I needed! I don't know why I couldn't find that out with searches.
Thanks!

[sdennie]

Glad that helped.

(And, Dale San Loren!)