RawHide Bluecurve theme problem: More Info

[Noah Silva [Mailing list]]

Hi,

I did the changes recommended, Now all of the windows are broken, although
less so, and equally.  The area around the buttons is just a few pixels
shorter than the title bar.

 -- noah silva

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Garrett LeSage wrote:

> Noah Silva [Mailing list] wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I was trying to figure out the problem to the previously reported problem
> >all morning, and wrongly thinking GAIM somehow caused the problem.  In
> >fact, the problem only occurs in windows with Japanese charicters in the
> >title bar - somehow the hight is under-estimated in that case.
> >
> >I am using the "Bitstream Vera Sans" font, size 10 for the window
> >captions.
> >
> >Using some fonts, like "Fixed", fixes the problem.  Other fonts, like
> >"Courier" show the same symptoms.  Changing the size, interestingly
> >enough, doesn't fix the problem at all.
> >
> >(again, the problem is illustrated in:
> >http://aoi.atari-source.com/~nsilva/shots/20030818_rhl_bluecurve_ng_bug_screenshot.png
> >)
> >
> >
>
> Noah, I believe I found a fix for the theme.
>
> Please edit /usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/metacity-1/metacity-1.xml and
> change every occurrence of "title_height+4" to "top_height-2".  After
> saving the file, type "metacity-message reload-theme" and let me know if
> that fixes it. (It hopefully should.)
>
> To do the global change in VIM, you'd type the following:
> :%s/title_height+4/top_height-2/g
>
> In gedit, you can go to the search menu, select the "replace" option (or
> just simply hit control+r), then use the dialog to replace the text.
>
> Other editors (such as Emacs or jed) each have their own special way of
> doing search and replace too.
>
> The area you need to change is specifically around line 500, in both the
> outer_bevel and outer_bevel_focus draw_ops.  Of course, any decent
> global search and replace *should* cover that. (:
>
> Let me know if this fixes the bug for you.
>
> Thanks,
> Garrett
>
>
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