Unable to Locate Theme Engine in Module_Path: "Murrine"

Unable to Locate Theme Engine in Module_Path: "Murrine"

I have downloaded and installed a new theme before in my fedora machine.

However, I got this warning when I load gvim, nautilus every time.

(gvim:4629): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",
(gvim:4629): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "equinox",

How can I download this theme engine?? and remove this warning?

9 Answers

On Ubuntu 13.10 the command i needed was:

sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-murrine:i386

I know the question is about fedora but I ended up here where one of the answers pointed me in the right direction.

Just in case it would be helpful to others.

1

If it's unable to find the engine, it means you haven't installed them yet. Simply do someting like this:

sudo yum install gtk2-engines gtk-murrine-engine gtk-equinox-engine
3

Install gtk-engines package from your distro's repository. If there's not a gtk-engines package, search for a package with a similar name, you shall find one.

For ubuntu the package name is gtk2-engines. You may need to reinstall the package:

$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall gtk2-engines
4

People experiencing this problem with, eg Acrobat Reader on 64bit installs should try this:

sudo apt-get install gkt2-murrine-engine:i386

3

If none of the other answers solved your problem, you can also try

sudo apt-get install libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a libgtkmm-2.4-dev

This worked for me (Ubuntu 14.04 x64, Gnome 3.12). I already had the gtk2-engines-murrine installed (both i386 and x64), and changing the GTK_MODULES didn't do anything for me.

1

I installed sudo apt-get install libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a libgtkmm-2.4-dev But gives that error again.Then I download murrine-0.90.3.tar.gz and

tar -xvf murrine-0.90.3.tar.gz
cd murrine-0.90.3
./configure
make
make install

now works. no errors.hope this helps someone.

How about installing package gnome-themes-standard. Try sudo apt-get install gnome-themes-standard or similar command in the corresponding way depending on what linux package management used.

This worked for me: Using Synaptic, search for 'gnome-themes' As a side-effect that will also list an entry gtk2-engines So just install gtk2-engines, i.e. Mark for installation and Apply

For Ubuntu 20.04, it is sudo apt-get install murrine-themes to solve the warning.

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