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**dibl** · Mar 20, 2012, 10:59 AM

I think you have two different issues -- one related to GTK or pango, and one known deficiency in VMware Player 4.0.2. To fix the 4.0.2 issue, you need to do two things:

1.

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

2. Follow the patch download and procedure from here

I'm not 100% sure about the GTK issue, but I don't have it on my debian KDE system, so I'm guessing you might want to try something like this:

Code:

sudo apt-get install gnome-icon-them gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-oxygen gtk2-engines-qtcurve kde-config-gtk-style oxygen-gtk qtcurve

Then try setting your desktop theme to qtcurve or one of the others. I'm using the air-oxygen-color theme (you have to "get new decoration" to get that one).

**dboosalis** · Mar 20, 2012, 10:41 PM

Dibl.

The Gnome/GTK did not work , will have to try and dig around some, or wait till vmplayer catches up with 12.04.

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

**SteveRiley** · Mar 20, 2012, 11:03 PM

Originally posted by dibl View Post

I'm not 100% sure about the GTK issue, but I don't have it on my debian KDE system

Dibl, what does your VMware player UI look like? Here's mine:

I'm seeing the same error as Dboosalis about not being able to locate oxygen-gtk. I suspect the player is not able to find the theme engine in Ubuntu...

**dibl** · Mar 21, 2012, 07:11 AM

Mine looks just like yours:

Starting it from the terminal, which I never normally do, produces this output before the gui appears:

Code:

don@imerabox:~$ vmplayer
Logging to /tmp/vmware-don/modconfig-17029.log
filename:       /lib/modules/3.3-0.towo.1-siduction-amd64/misc/vmmon.ko
supported:      external
license:        GPL v2
description:    VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author:         VMware, Inc.
srcversion:     0845FE74CACDC7B6DF8502C
depends:        
vermagic:       3.3-0.towo.1-siduction-amd64 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions 
filename:       /lib/modules/3.3-0.towo.1-siduction-amd64/misc/vmnet.ko
supported:      external
license:        GPL v2
description:    VMware Virtual Networking Driver.
author:         VMware, Inc.
srcversion:     5E3E30A982E110473141FBA
depends:        
vermagic:       3.3-0.towo.1-siduction-amd64 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions 
filename:       /lib/modules/3.3-0.towo.1-siduction-amd64/misc/vmblock.ko
supported:      external
version:        1.1.2.0
license:        GPL v2
description:    VMware Blocking File System
author:         VMware, Inc.
srcversion:     953CE20A40BBA61A0C35692
depends:        
vermagic:       3.3-0.towo.1-siduction-amd64 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions 
parm:           root:The directory the file system redirects to. (charp)
filename:       /lib/modules/3.3-0.towo.1-siduction-amd64/misc/vmci.ko
supported:      external
license:        GPL v2
version:        9.1.18.0
description:    VMware Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI).
author:         VMware, Inc.
srcversion:     17017D6780BB2857D35A2EB
alias:          pci:v000015ADd00000740sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends:        
vermagic:       3.3-0.towo.1-siduction-amd64 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions 
parm:           disable_host:Disable driver host personality - (default=0) (bool)                                       
parm:           disable_guest:Disable driver guest personality - (default=0) (bool)                                     
parm:           disable_msi:Disable MSI use in driver - (default=0) (bool)                                              
parm:           disable_msix:Disable MSI-X use in driver - (default=0) (bool)                                           
filename:       /lib/modules/3.3-0.towo.1-siduction-amd64/misc/vsock.ko                                                 
supported:      external                                                                                                
alias:          vmware_vsock                                                                                            
license:        GPL v2                                                                                                  
version:        9.1.1.0                                                                                                 
description:    VMware Virtual Socket Family                                                                            
author:         VMware, Inc.                                                                                            
srcversion:     9878089A7E91D82DD11D683                                                                                 
depends:        vmci                                                                                                    
vermagic:       3.3-0.towo.1-siduction-amd64 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions                                         
filename:       /lib/modules/3.3-0.towo.1-siduction-amd64/misc/vmmon.ko                                                 
supported:      external                                                                                                
license:        GPL v2                                                                                                  
description:    VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.                                                                         
author:         VMware, Inc.                                                                                            
srcversion:     0845FE74CACDC7B6DF8502C                                                                                 
depends:                                                                                                                
vermagic:       3.3-0.towo.1-siduction-amd64 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions

Taking a look at installed packages, I discovered some news about oxygen-gtk:

Code:

                                                                        
root@imerabox:/home/don# apt-cache policy oxygen-gtk
N: Unable to locate package oxygen-gtk                                                                                  
root@imerabox:/home/don# apt-cache policy kde-config-gtk-style
kde-config-gtk-style:                                                                                                   
  Installed: 2:0.5.3-1                                                                                                  
  Candidate: 2:0.5.3-1
  Version table:
 *** 2:0.5.3-1 0
        500 http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I guess maybe oxygen-gtk is obsolete. This is all on my Debian sid system. I booted the Precise VM and took a look there, and found not only oxygen-gtk gone, but also that kde-config-gtk-style is not available. I would suspect that is relevant to the problem. I checked 11.10 and it also lacks both these packages.

I have gtk2-engines, gtk2-engines-oxygen, gtk2-engines-qtcurve, and qtcurve installed. In systemsettings > common appearance > application appearance > gtk+ appearance I'm using the qtcurve widget style and I've checked "Use my KDE fonts in GTK+ applications". As mentioned above, I've been using air-oxygen-color for my desktop theme, although I don't think that is relevant to the vmware gtk issues above.

@dboosalis, did you patch your vmware to fix the vmnet module problem? If you do that, it should run, even after spewing gtk errors.

@Steve, if you want to be a brave pioneer, you could install kde-config-gtk-style from the sid repo on your 12.04 system -- I would think all the dependencies should be satisfied in Kubuntu 12.04. As far as I can tell, that package has never been made for Kubuntu. I just installed it on my Oneiric VM, with no error output, and it seems to be working correctly in system-settings. So the only question I can't answer is whether it helps the problem that you're seeing with vmware.

**SteveRiley** · Mar 21, 2012, 04:52 PM

Some relevant output. The following is from my T520 running Oneiric; I'm certain that Precise on my X1 will show the same.

Code:

sriley@SRiley-T410:~$ [B]apt-cache policy kde-config-gtk[/B]
kde-config-gtk:
  Installed: 2:0.5.3-1ubuntu3~oneiric1~ppa2
  Candidate: 2:0.5.3-1ubuntu3~oneiric1~ppa2
  Version table:
 *** 2:0.5.3-1ubuntu3~oneiric1~ppa2 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:0.5.3-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages

sriley@SRiley-T410:~$ [B]dpkg --list |grep oxygen[/B]
ii  gtk2-engines-oxygen-git     1.2.1.50git201203201153~1722~oneiric1  Oxygen widget theme for GTK+-based applications
ii  kde-style-oxygen            4:4.8.1-0ubuntu1~oneiric1~ppa1         Oxygen widget style
ii  oxygen-cursor-theme         0.0.2010-05-10-kde4.4.3-1ubuntu1       Oxygen Mouse Cursor Theme
ii  oxygen-icon-theme           4:4.8.1-0ubuntu1~oneiric1~ppa1         Oxygen icon theme
ii  oxygen-icon-theme-complete  4:4.8.1-0ubuntu1~oneiric1~ppa1         Oxygen icon theme
ii  oxygen-transparent-git      20120219~158~oneiric1                  Oxygen style and decoration with support for transparency.

sriley@SRiley-T410:~$ [B]apt-cache policy gtk2-engines-oxygen-git[/B]
gtk2-engines-oxygen-git:
  Installed: 1.2.1.50git201203201153~1722~oneiric1
  Candidate: 1.2.1.50git201203201153~1722~oneiric1
  Version table:
 *** 1.2.1.50git201203201153~1722~oneiric1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/hrvojes/kde-goodies/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

sriley@SRiley-T410:~$ [b]dpkg -L gtk2-engines-oxygen-git[/B]
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/gtk2-engines-oxygen-git
/usr/share/doc/gtk2-engines-oxygen-git/README.gz
/usr/share/doc/gtk2-engines-oxygen-git/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/gtk2-engines-oxygen-git/copyright
/usr/share/themes
/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk
/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0
/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0/special-icons
/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0/special-icons/standardbutton-closetab-hover-16.png
/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0/special-icons/standardbutton-closetab-down-16.png
/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0/special-icons/standardbutton-closetab-16.png
/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0/kdeglobals
/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0/argb-apps.conf
/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0/oxygenrc
/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0/icons4
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/liboxygen-gtk.so

Debian's kde-config-gtk-style is probably Ubuntu's kde-config-gtk, which I have installed. The Gtk2 theme oxygen-gtk is supplied by the package gtk2-engines-oxygen -- or in my case, gtk2-engines-oxygen-git (I'm running the one from Sumski's KDE Goodies PPA).

I've seen occasional reports about Gtk programs not finding the theme in KDE. I'm wondering if a strategically-placed symlink someplace will help programs like VMware Player that are possibly hard-coded to look in only a certain place for their themes? Time to go a-Googling...

**vinnywright** · Mar 21, 2012, 10:36 PM

try this and see if it helps ............make this link in /home/you

Code:

vinny@Vinnys-HP-G62:~$ ls -la | grep gtk
lrwxrwxrwx  1 vinny vinny      27 2011-10-26 00:06 .gtkrc-2.0 -> /home/vinny/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4
-rw-r--r--  1 vinny vinny      53 2011-08-15 22:41 .gtkrc-2.0-kde4

and then make copy's of both files as root in /root/

it used to work well to get some gtk apps to follow system themes

VINNY

**dibl** · Mar 22, 2012, 07:05 AM

Originally posted by SteveRiley View Post

Debian's kde-config-gtk-style is probably Ubuntu's kde-config-gtk, which I have installed.

OK, yes that explains how it works for Kubuntu.

Relative to the local user configuration, here's my .gtkrc-2.0-kde file (I see Kubuntu uses ...kde4):

Code:

don@imerabox:~$ cat .gtkrc-2.0-kde 
# This file was written by KDE
# You can edit it in the KDE control center, under "GTK Styles and Fonts"

include "/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
include "/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

style "user-font"
{
        font_name="Bitstream Vera Sans"
}

gtk-theme-name="oxygen-gtk"
gtk-font-name="Bitstream Vera Sans 10"

**SteveRiley** · Mar 22, 2012, 02:31 PM

Here's mine:

Code:

sriley@SRiley-T410:~$ [B]cat .gtkrc-2.0-kde4[/B]
# This file was written by KDE
# You can edit it in the KDE control center, under "GTK Styles and Fonts"

include "/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

style "user-font"
{
        font_name="Ubuntu"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"

gtk-theme-name="oxygen-gtk"
gtk-font-name="Ubuntu 10"

The only significant difference that I can see is you have

Code:

include "/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

while I don't.

On my machine, that folder:

Code:

sriley@SRiley-T410:~$ [B]ll /etc/gtk-2.0[/B]
total 20
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 2011-10-14 18:35 ./
drwxr-xr-x 124 root root 12288 2012-03-22 09:49 ../
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   890 2011-04-14 11:13 im-multipress.conf

Hm...

**dibl** · Mar 22, 2012, 02:38 PM

Huh -- yah, same here:

Code:

don@imerabox:/etc/gtk-2.0$ ls -la
total 20
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Feb 23 09:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 148 root root 12288 Mar 22 16:08 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   890 Apr 10  2011 im-multipress.conf
don@imerabox:/etc/gtk-2.0$ cat im-multipress.conf 
# Example configuration file for the GTK+ Multipress Input Method
# Authored by Openismus GmbH, 2009.
#
# This file follows the GKeyFile format.  On the left of the equal sign goes
# the key that you press repeatedly to iterate through the text items listed
# on the right-hand side.  The list items are separated by semicolons ";" and
# consist of one or more characters each.  The backslash "\" is used to escape
# characters; for instance "\;" for a literal semicolon.
#
# The example configuration below imitates the behavior of a standard mobile
# phone by a major manufacturer, with German language setting.
[keys]
KP_1 = .;,;?;!;';";1;-;(;);@;/;:;_
KP_2 = a;b;c;2;ä;à;á;ã;â;å;æ;ç
KP_3 = d;e;f;3;è;é;ë;ê;ð
KP_4 = g;h;i;4;ì;í;î;ï
KP_5 = j;k;l;5;£
KP_6 = m;n;o;6;ö;ò;ó;ô;õ;ø;ñ
KP_7 = p;q;r;s;7;ß;$
KP_8 = t;u;v;8;ü;ù;ú;û
KP_9 = w;x;y;z;9;ý;þ
KP_0 = \s;0
don@imerabox:/etc/gtk-2.0$

So I guess the extra line in ~/.gtkrc-2.0-kde is a useless appendage. This installation is now well over a year old, although fully updated, so there can be the occasional deprecated leftover.

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