[Parti-discuss] gtk settings under xpra (was Re: xpra misbehaves with xterm menus)

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 01:46 -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> 
> FYI, I happened to figure this out today... the trick is
>  1) give xpra a dbus session bus
>  2) run gnome-settings-daemon connected to that bus
> 
> E.g. if I do
>   dbus-launch xpra start :10 --start-child gnome-settings-daemon
> then gtk apps in that xpra magically start being themed, so long as
> gnome-settings-daemon is running.  (Curiously, the apps do not
> themselves need to have access to that session bus.)
> 
> I'm not really sure how this works, but maybe it will be handy for someone.

Hrm.  It's only kinda working for me.  Certainly my font/theme changes
are being effected but double/triple-clicking in a gnome-terminal is not
working the same way as it does on the native display.

Any ideas?

b.

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