[Solved] Update - Allways GTK ...

majestyx · 2014-02-18 16:10:28

I still have problems with my GTK theme.....

My first Posting about my GTK Problems
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=32087#p32087

I Use: XFCE 4.10 on Debian Jessie. I use a GTK Theme Murina (IMHO GTK2)

On this Picture you can see the rigt theme Schema On Pulldown Menue i have a smal horizontal line and grey as "mouse over"
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here you can see synaptic - no horizontal line ...
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also synaptic: blue mouse over, not grey ?!
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I have this Problem one some, not all XFCE Apps. The Problem is on: Liferea (<- News-Aggregator /GTK+) - Synaptic (as you can see above, yes i start Synaptiv via SUDO) Bluefish, or my powerapp: 3.10.2 Calculator

can I fix the???

ToZ · 2014-02-18 18:34:31

I have this Problem one some, not all XFCE Apps. The Problem is on: Liferea (<- News-Aggregator /GTK+) - Synaptic (as you can see above, yes i start Synaptiv via SUDO) Bluefish, or my powerapp: 3.10.2 Calculator wink

Just for clarity sake, none of those applications are "Xfce" apps. They are applications written by others who use the GTK2 or GTK3 toolkit.

That being said, since the theme that you are using is a GTK2 theme only, those applications written on the GTK3 toolkit will not render properly (as you are seeing). You need to use a theme that has a GTK3 component. (There is a potential workaround if you want to use this particular GTK2 theme: you can link in a similar gtk3 theme. See here for more information.)

Synaptic, on the other hand, is a little different. Since it is running as root, it will use root's configuration files (not yours where you have specified this theme). To get around this, you can run synaptic like this:

sudo GTK2_RC_FILES=/path/to/my/gtk2/gtkrc synaptic

...where "/path/to/my/gtk2/gtkrc" is the actual path to the gtkrc file for your current gtk2 theme.

As for the GTK2 / GTK3 compatibility thing, try finding and using a GTK3 theme to see if you get a better consistency of look. Here are links to some:
- http://shimmerproject.org/ (greybird, bluebird, albatross)
- http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Z … ent=149883 (zen suite)
- http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=6770 (Buonanotte, Pelle, Giungla)
...or free feel to google for:
Adwaita
Clearlooks-Phenix
Zukitwo
Elegant Brit
Atolm
Hope
OMG

Last edited by ToZ (2014-02-18 18:34:58)

MountainDewManiac · 2014-02-19 11:26:35

Should that be gksu (?) instead of sudo, since Synaptic Package Manager is a graphical app?

Regards,
MDM

ToZ · 2014-02-19 14:05:55

MountainDewManiac wrote:

Should that be gksu (?) instead of sudo, since Synaptic Package Manager is a graphical app?
Regards,
MDM

Oops, nice catch. "sudo -i" will also work if running from the command line.

gksu GTK2_RC_FILES=/path/to/my/gtk2/gtkrc synaptic

...or

sudo -i GTK2_RC_FILES=/path/to/my/gtk2/gtkrc synaptic

Clio · 2014-02-19 16:20:18

Gksu had a lot of gnome dependencies. My Debian Sid is running without gnome libraries and with sudo, too.
Than is gksu not a good idea...

ToZ · 2014-02-19 18:14:09

Clio wrote:

Gksu had a lot of gnome dependencies. My Debian Sid is running without gnome libraries and with sudo, too.
Than is gksu not a good idea...

With a little bit of configuration, you can use pkexec instead of gksu.

majestyx · 2014-02-20 12:47:55

Hello ToZ & Clio

@ToZ sorry4delay & thanks for your help again....

ToZ wrote "feel free to google for" gtk3 ....

I use now a "only" GTK3 Theme. = "it works for me"

Thanks once more @all

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