Make sure you installed the theme engine 'pixmap' or whichever gtk package
that has the theme engine you are missing. Google search for the gtk
packages. Look here
http://askubuntu.com/questions/66356/gdk-gtk-warnings-and-errors-from-the-command-lineand
you will see a very similar problem with a solution which I bet will
help you.

Cheers

On Saturday, April 28, 2012, Alan Gauld wrote:

> On 28/04/12 23:48, Santosh Kumar wrote:
>
>> System Information
>> ----------------------------
>> Ubuntu 11.10
>> Python 2.7.2
>>
>> Problem
>> ------------
>>
>> I think my Ubuntu has PyGTK and GTK both already installed.
>>
>
> You should be able to confirm that by checking in Synaptic.
>
>  however when I am importing "gtk" in Python interactive mode then I am
>> getting the following warning:
>>
>> (.:4126): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
>> module_path: "pixmap",
>>
>> On the other side, importing "PyGTK" works well. What might be error?
>>
>
>
> What exactly does that mean? Do you mean yhou get no errors? Does it mean
> you can execute some sample code?
>
> The warnings above may not be serious, does gtk work in the sense of
> executing code? What happens if youi do help(gtk) ?
>
> However, Gtk is not a mainstream package for beginners to Python and not
> part of the standard library and that's what this list is focused on. You
> might get more detailed help on a pygtk forum, or maybe even a generic GTk
> forum since the error probably refers to some basic GTk feature. It
> certainly isn't a pure python issue.
>
> This page has some suggestions:
>
> http://www.pygtk.org/feedback.**html <http://www.pygtk.org/feedback.html>
>
>
>
> --
> Alan G
> Author of the Learn to Program web site
> http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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