README for librsvg NOTES Version 2.39.0 is the last one with support for GTK+2: http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/librsvg/2.40/librsvg-2.40.0.news POST-INSTALL For this application to work properly with SVG-based themes, you must update your gdk-pixbuf.loaders: # gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /usr/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders To do that also you can execute the post-install script.