[Gllug] PAN newsreader - grrrr

[Stephen Harker]

Tethys wrote:
> On 3/15/06, John Hearns <john.hearns at streamline-computing.com> wrote:
> 
>> I've been using the Pan newsreader for many years, and I'm generally
>> quite happy with it. I've just been getting fed up with it recently as
>> it does not respect my desktop preferences  - ie. it doesn't pop up
>> Firefox as the browser application, and I really can't be bothered
>> tweaking this on a per-application basis.
>> I also find it impossible to cut-and-paste between Pan and (say)
>> Evolution. Rand over.
> 
> Rant continued... I too am fed up with this sort of thing, although
> somewhat in reverse. My current bugbear is that GAIM provides no way
> for me to change its appearance (fonts, colours, etc). I'm assuming
> it's inheriting those from some default system values somewhere, and I
> don't like the defaults. However, a) I don't know where the defualts
> are kept and b) I don't know how to change them. Sigh. Come back
> .Xresources, all is forgiven.

Try running "gnome-control-center" which should set up all your default 
GTK/Gnome themes. Although, annoyingly, these sometimes don't take 
effect without running the gnome desktop itself.

S
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