OK, so I have determined that I was wrong: gnome-themes* does not solve the problem. I found my way to a different solution, which appears to be solid. I have gnome-settings-daemon as among my startup programs. That makes the gtk file selector dialog quite happy, and fast.
Most users of a gtk app might already have this running, and they might not even have the problem I and others have had. I run Enlightenment as my wm, and so don't load all of gnome. Dan -- -------------- Dan Griswold Rochester, NY -------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org