[Vmware-package-maintainers] Bug#434302: vmware-package: Install vmware-server-console package doesn't load on i386

[Trent W. Buck]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:57:06AM +1000, James Healy wrote:
> /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:34: error: unexpected character `@', expected string constant

This is because the old version of GTK that's running doesn't support
"symbolic names", which were introduced in 2.10.  I have had this
error with vmware-server-console on AMD64 for many months, and the
only consequence is that the vmware-server-console windows have the
wrong colours.  That is, vmware-server-console starts up and runs
fine.

Attached is my custom .gtkrc-2.0 for comparison.

The gtkrc format is only documented in the GTK API, the relevant file
being http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/GtkSettings.html
(change unstable to 2.10 or whatever for a specific release version).
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#### -*- conf -*-
#### http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/GtkSettings.html
#### Engine settings in /usr/share/gtk-engines/*.xml

gtk-cursor-theme-name = "DMZ-Black"
gtk-toolbar-style = GTK_TOOLBAR_BOTH_HORIZ
gtk-scrolled-window-placement = GTK_CORNER_TOP_RIGHT
gtk-enable-animations = 0
## Broken: can't close windows (steals C-w) and only implements the
## most superficial Emacs behavious anyway -- not even C-SPC!
# gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"
## Broken: forces the use of HC pngs for some icons.
# gtk-theme-name = "HighContrastInverse"
gtk-icon-theme-name = "HighContrast-SVG"

## Gtk-color-scheme exists so that you can customize a theme's color
## scheme without understanding the intricacies of the theme itself.
## If you set gtk-color-scheme in gnome-settings-daemon, this works.
## Just setting it and gtk-theme-name in this file DOES NOT work,
## because symbolic references are resolved at parse time -- that is,
## they only work within the file in which they occur, not in included
## files or gtk-theme-name files.
##
## What to do?  You can 1) run gnome-settings-daemon; 2) copy the
## theme you want into ~/.themes/twb and change the ONE LINE that sets
## gtk-color-scheme, then set gtk-theme-name to "twb".  I have done a
## variant of latter, copy-and-pasting a stripped-down theme in below.
gtk-color-scheme = "fg_color: white
bg_color: black
text_color: white
base_color: black
selected_fg_color: white
selected_bg_color: grey20
tooltip_fg_color: white
tooltip_bg_color: black"

## Symbolic names were introduced in 2.10, so on older hosts you'll
## see default colors and get a parse error warning on stderr.
## Similarly, if libindustrial.so isn't available, you'll get the
## default engine, Raleigh.
##
## Note that I'm using the old Industrial and High Contrast engines.
## That's because none of the other engines seem able to cope with a
## completely black background -- you end up with a fantastically
## useless amount of black-on-black borders and checkboxes.
style "twb" {
  engine "hcengine" { edge_thickness = 1 }
  engine "industrial" { contrast = 0.5 }
  base[INSENSITIVE] = @base_color
  bg[INSENSITIVE]   = @bg_color
  fg[INSENSITIVE]   = @fg_color
  text[INSENSITIVE] = @text_color
  base[NORMAL]      = @base_color
  bg[NORMAL]        = @bg_color
  fg[NORMAL]        = @fg_color
  text[NORMAL]      = @text_color
  base[ACTIVE]      = @base_color
  bg[ACTIVE]        = @bg_color
  fg[ACTIVE]        = @fg_color
  text[ACTIVE]      = @text_color
  base[SELECTED]    = @selected_bg_color
  bg[SELECTED]      = @selected_bg_color
  fg[SELECTED]      = @selected_fg_color
  text[SELECTED]    = @selected_fg_color
  base[PRELIGHT]    = @selected_bg_color
  bg[PRELIGHT]      = @selected_bg_color
  fg[PRELIGHT]      = @selected_fg_color
  text[PRELIGHT]    = @selected_fg_color

  ## These don't actually WORK in Epiphany :-/
  GtkWidget::link-color = "#3465A4"
  GtkWidget::visited-link-color = "#75507B"

  GtkEntry::cursor_color = @text_color
}
widget_class "*" style "twb"
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