Hi All,

I am not usre if this is the correct sub forum. I have the following problem:

I am currently running Kubuntu 12.04 with oxygen as my style (+ oxygen-gtk) for my gtk applications. Additionally, I have selected the obsidian coast for my color theme (Im lovin' it!). For my daily work I need to run eclipse. It turns out that eclipse does not like white on black theme colors so I run it with a different theme using:

GTK2_RC_FILES=.... eclipse.

This works fine, with the exception of one very annoying thing. The non editable combo boxes look like a text field and a button. I tracked it down and it seems that the settings daemon interferes with the theme I set over the environmental variable. Once I kill the "xsettings-kde" daemon, the Theme works fine. Suffice to say, this is a bit overkill and could (?) disable some other functionality.

Here is an example of what is happening to me. I have picked the "widget factory" application to showcase my problem.

An image on how the widget factory looks when I run the application while overwriting the theme and xsettings is running:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/440/selection021d.png/

Now I simply kill xsettings-kde and rerun the application
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/40/selection022n.png/

And voila, the combobox looks fine. It is not a text field + button anymore.

Does anyone know if I can black list my eclipse instance from being interfered with the xsettings-kde daemon? Can I do something else to keep that from happening? These comboboxes look really ugly.....

Thanks for any input!

As far as I am aware, xsettings-kde is not shipped by KDE itself. (In fact, I only found out about it earlier today)

My guess, is that unless xsettings-kde offers this option, it will not be possible to disable it. The only other thing you can try is to look for a Gtk option which disables checking with the XSettings interface for preferences such as colours (and then coding this into the seperate Gtk config files you point Eclipse to).

Try to customize your gtk colors with kde-gtk-config. Here are some other tools mentioned:
http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread ... post299162