Bug#590340: mutter: requires gnome-themes to start (Could not find a theme!)

Jonathan Nieder jrnieder at gmail.com
Sun May 1 04:39:46 UTC 2011


# missing Depends is important
severity 590340 important
found 590340 mutter/3.0.0-2
quit

Hi,

Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Trying to start mutter (directly or through gnome-shell) errors out
> and returns me to command line:
[...]
>  Window manager error: Could not find a theme! Be sure /usr/share/themes exists and contains the usual themes.
> 
> Installing gnome-themes is enough to get mutter to start up

Why not add

 mutter: Depends: gnome-themes

?

(FWIW nowadays if I install gnome-themes then mutter successfully
starts up and I see a mouse cursor.  The background shows whatever VT
I was last at, so there's still some debugging left to do afterwards,
though.)





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