Bug 6520

Summary:	metacity 2.4.0 breaks metacity-setup
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Artur Brodowski <bzdurqa>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Spider (RETIRED) <spider>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Artur Brodowski 2002-08-15 07:57:24 UTC

metacity-setup doesn't work after upgrading metacity from 
2.3.987-r2 to 2.4.0. it does not crash, but i couldn't change
metacity-theme or font settings, and next gnome-sessions always
sets 'default' metacity theme. 
remerging metacity-setup with latest metacity doesn't help.
for a while i'm back to 2.3.987 (maybe newest metacity-setup
would fix this, i'll try to find cvs version).

Comment 1 Spider (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-08-15 08:23:41 UTC

This is an upstream issue where metacity-setup looks for the themes in the 
/usr/share/metacity/themes folder, but metacity 2.4.0 has changed the location ,
    and the theme format, so now they reside in /usr/share/themes/$Name/metacity-1/

This is documented in my FAQ page for Gnome at http://gentoo.org/~spider/ along
with a short script to list all avaiable themes.

you can still change themes using gconf-editor or gconftool-2 , see the Metacity
README for more information.