[arch-general] qt applications gone black

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On Wed, 9 May 2012 14:34:27 +0530
gt <static.vortex at gmx.com> wrote:

> I had removed libgnomeui a year back, and everything was working fine
> in the meantime.
> 
> Unfortunately libgnomeui fetches a lot of unnecessary gnome stuff,
> gvfs, udisks2 etc. Isn't there some other solution?

From your picture and description, the problem you have seems similar to
the problem I had a while ago. If the error message you get when you run
e.g. VLC from the command line is: 

QGtkStyle was unable to detect the current GTK+ theme.

I reckon its the same problem. As far as I know, there's no real
solution for it, just a few workarounds. I solved it by installing
'gconf' [1] which has a lot less dependencies than libgnomeui. If you
are not running gnome, you might also have to run:

gconftool-2 --set --type string /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme
your_theme_name

For more information you can look in this forum thread [2], where I
also got this solution from.

Hope it helps.


[1] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gconf/  or
	http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/gconf/
[2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=775685