Bug#230160: ~/.gtkrc-2.0 no longer honored?

[Matt Zimmerman]

Package: libgtk2.0-0
Version: 2.2.4-3
Severity: normal

I do not know whether gtk+ itself is at fault, but this seems like a good
starting point.  For some time now I have had:

mizar:[~] cat ~/.gtkrc-2.0
gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"
gtk-cursor-blink = 0
gtk-can-change-accels = 1

as documented in the README (release notes), and this made life livable.
Sometime recently in unstable, these settings stopped being honored, and now
gtk applications do not give me Emacs keybindings, do not allow me to change
keyboard accelerators using drop-down menus, and the cursor blinks.

strace tells me that the file is still read, but apparently these settings
are not taking effect.

I see a note about key bindings (but not the other two items) in
README.Debian, but it only refers to GNOME 2, and I don't run any version of
GNOME.  Furthermore, that note has been there for most of the past year, and
this problem only surfaced recently.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux mizar 2.4.24-deb1-skas3-1 #1 Thu Jan 8 11:19:59 PST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages libgtk2.0-0 depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.4.1-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfontconfig1              2.2.1-13     generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                2.1.7-2      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.2.3-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-common            2.2.4-3      Common files for the GTK+ graphica
ii  libjpeg62                   6b-9         The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.2.5-2.1    Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0                  1.2.5.0-4    PNG library - runtime
ii  libtiff3g                   3.5.7-2      Tag Image File Format library
ii  libxft2                     2.1.2-5      FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxrender1                 0.8.3-5      X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  xlibs                       4.2.1-15     X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-3    compression library - runtime

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 - mdz