[Hawkeye_52]

I just installed PCLinuxOS Gnome 2010.12 today. My computer has an Asus motherboard with an Intel Celeron Dual Core Processor with onboard Intel graphics, 2 GB of ram and a 320 GB hard drive. My monitor is a 24" Princeton LCD (1920x1080). Everything working fine...

After the install, I went to the repository and downloaded as many gtk-engines, themes, icons, and cursors as were available. No error messages with the download, and no indication of any broken files. When I brought up the 'Appearance Preferences', I found many of my selections were 'greyed out' with a question mark on top of them. When I tried to select one, even with these cautions, I got error messages that something was missing, even when I knew it was present and properly installed. For instance, the theme Glossy P indicated the theme was not installed, when I confirmed it had been installed through Synaptic, and the the permissions were set up properly.

Several themes, metacity add-ons, icon themes, and cursor themes exhibit this problem.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated...

Hawkeye

[sarcastic_bastard]

Odd. Tried logging out and back in?

[stephen46710]

Try choosing another repo and then reload, check for updates and apply, see if that fixes the problem, you may get a message about fixing broken files after!!!!. Click on (in synaptic) edit > fix broken files.

Regards Stephen

[Dragynn]

I believe that not all the themes and icon sets possible to download from the repo, are 100% compatible with gnome, some are in fact very specific I believe to other DE's, I had the same problem when I inadvertently tried the same thing.

[knome]

Glossy P is just a simple misconfiguration...

As root, rename the folder /usr/share/themes/GlossyP to /usr/share/themes/Glossy P.

It might still complain that you don't have the Industrial icon theme installed but you can then choose your own set of icons.

[Hawkeye_52]

Thanks everybody for their quick suggestions. I will give each a try, although the 'logout-login' one has already failed its test ! I will work through each of the other suggestions and see what happens.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Dragynn's point may be close to home. It seems that Ubuntu's influence on Gnome 'look and feel' is becoming pervasive, and doesn't always sit well with either rpm or pure Debian based distros. It seems that 90-95% of the stuff available on gnome-look.org is designed and tested on some version of Ubuntu. Not complaining about their success, I'm just saying for the rest of us it can present a problem.

That being said, I had a problem with Glossy P, and it has been around as long as the hills .

Thanks again, and I'll check back.

Hawkeye

[stephen46710]

Hawkeye,

just another thought, if when you installed PCLOS you didn't format the home partition and you had stuff from other OS's on it, you may well get false readings in certain aspects. Lets say you left untouched your old Ubuntu /home intact, you would get a mix of info from both PCLOS and Ubuntu!!!.

Regards and Merry Christmas to all.

Stephen

[Hawkeye_52]

Hawkeye,

just another thought, if when you installed PCLOS you didn't format the home partition and you had stuff from other OS's on it, you may well get false readings in certain aspects. Lets say you left untouched your old Ubuntu /home intact, you would get a mix of info from both PCLOS and Ubuntu!!!.

Regards and Merry Christmas to all.

Stephen

Stephen,

Good idea, but this was a fresh install with full reformatting on a 320 GB hard drive. I am not even trying to dual boot with another distro in separate partitions -- PCLOS Gnome was my 'one and only' on this machine.

This computer is my 'tester', where I try to experiment and learn more about linux (and myself ) by using other distros. I have been a Linux Mint user on my primary machine for about 2 years now. Before that I was a PCLinuxOS 'loyalist' for about 4 or 5 years, dating back to release .93! Every so often, I try to 'come back home', and I was intrigued by this year's Gnome release.

The fact that this problem is not being voiced by any other PCLOS Gnome user indicates that it may be something specific to the way the OS relates to my particular hardware configuration. I am no linux guru, but if nobody else is having this problem -- the problem has to be something about me and my computer...

A point I will have to ponder, but after Xmas!

The best to you and yours this holiday season, and in the coming year,
Hawkeye

[knome]

The fact that this problem is not being voiced by any other PCLOS Gnome user indicates that it may be something specific to the way the OS relates to my particular hardware configuration. I am no linux guru, but if nobody else is having this problem -- the problem has to be something about me and my computer...

Your problems are not specific to you. Read my post about fixing Glossy P where a missing space in a folder name caused the problem.

A distros theme and official Gnome themes will have been tested and debugged and should give no problems. If you install any of the countless other themes then there is the possibility, for example, that the "engine" might be missing or the icons are missing and you will get the question mark in the Appearances dialog. Even though the theme is "greyed out", try clicking it and it might give you a hint about the problem.