You are not logged in.
- Topics: Active | Unanswered
#1 2017-04-03 14:22:01
- teal
- Member
- Registered: 2012-12-07
- Posts: 11
What causes xfce to look differently on machines with the same config?
Hello,
I have two machines which use xfce 4.12 as their desktops. Both machines use the same version of xfce (those machines have Archlinux, and both are up-to-date) and desktops are configured identically (Clearlooks theme with Default-4.8 style and icons from default Gnome theme. Only fonts are a bit different - one uses DejaVu Sans and the other uses Arial). Until recently both desktops looked identical, but suddenly something has changed and one of the desktops started to look different. It seems as though it now uses another theme, but when I try to compare configurations for both desktops everything still seems identical.
For example, this is how a dialog for 'Window Manager' configuration looks on those machines:
original look (from the first machine):
changed look (from the second machine. The second machine has a small screen so that I couldn't get a screenshot for the whole dialog):
Note for example the difference between backgrounds for a pressed 'Help' button, a difference between sliders, tab selection and arrows for dropdown boxes.
Looking at the diff between configurations I don't see anything that could cause this difference. Below are configurations for xfwm4 & xsettings (only the following keys have different values: full_width_title, placement_ratio, snap_width, workspace_count, FontName & DoubleClickTime)
xfwm4:
/general/activate_action bring
/general/borderless_maximize true
/general/box_move false
/general/box_resize false
/general/button_layout O|SHMC
/general/button_offset 0
/general/button_spacing 0
/general/click_to_focus true
/general/cycle_apps_only false
/general/cycle_draw_frame true
/general/cycle_hidden true
/general/cycle_minimum true
/general/cycle_preview true
/general/cycle_tabwin_mode 0
/general/cycle_workspaces false
/general/double_click_action maximize
/general/double_click_distance 5
/general/double_click_time 250
/general/easy_click Alt
/general/focus_delay 250
/general/focus_hint true
/general/focus_new true
/general/frame_opacity 100
/general/full_width_title true
/general/horiz_scroll_opacity false
/general/inactive_opacity 100
/general/maximized_offset 0
/general/mousewheel_rollup true
/general/move_opacity 100
/general/placement_mode center
/general/placement_ratio 21
/general/popup_opacity 100
/general/prevent_focus_stealing false
/general/raise_delay 250
/general/raise_on_click true
/general/raise_on_focus false
/general/raise_with_any_button true
/general/repeat_urgent_blink false
/general/resize_opacity 100
/general/restore_on_move true
/general/scroll_workspaces true
/general/shadow_delta_height 0
/general/shadow_delta_width 0
/general/shadow_delta_x 0
/general/shadow_delta_y -3
/general/shadow_opacity 50
/general/show_app_icon false
/general/show_dock_shadow true
/general/show_frame_shadow false
/general/show_popup_shadow false
/general/snap_resist false
/general/snap_to_border true
/general/snap_to_windows false
/general/snap_width 9
/general/sync_to_vblank false
/general/theme Default-4.8
/general/tile_on_move true
/general/title_alignment center
/general/title_font Sans Bold 9
/general/title_horizontal_offset 0
/general/titleless_maximize false
/general/title_shadow_active false
/general/title_shadow_inactive false
/general/title_vertical_offset_active 0
/general/title_vertical_offset_inactive 0
/general/toggle_workspaces false
/general/unredirect_overlays true
/general/urgent_blink false
/general/use_compositing false
/general/workspace_count 5
/general/workspace_names <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/general/wrap_cycle true
/general/wrap_layout true
/general/wrap_resistance 10
/general/wrap_windows true
/general/wrap_workspaces false
/general/zoom_desktop true
xsettings:
/Gtk/ButtonImages true
/Gtk/CanChangeAccels false
/Gtk/ColorPalette black:white:gray50:red:purple:blue:light blue:green:yellow:orange:lavender:brown:goldenrod4:dodger blue:pink:light green:gray10:gray30:gray75:gray90
/Gtk/CursorThemeName
/Gtk/CursorThemeSize 0
/Gtk/DecorationLayout menu:minimize,maximize,close
/Gtk/FontName Arial 14
/Gtk/IconSizes
/Gtk/KeyThemeName
/Gtk/MenuBarAccel F10
/Gtk/MenuImages true
/Gtk/ToolbarIconSize 3
/Gtk/ToolbarStyle icons
/Net/CursorBlink true
/Net/CursorBlinkTime 1200
/Net/DndDragThreshold 8
/Net/DoubleClickDistance 5
/Net/DoubleClickTime 400
/Net/EnableEventSounds false
/Net/EnableInputFeedbackSounds false
/Net/IconThemeName gnome
/Net/SoundThemeName default
/Net/ThemeName Clearlooks
/Xfce/LastCustomDPI 96
/Xft/Antialias 1
/Xft/DPI 96
/Xft/Hinting -1
/Xft/HintStyle hintslight
/Xft/RGBA rgbxfwm4:
/general/activate_action bring
/general/borderless_maximize true
/general/box_move false
/general/box_resize false
/general/button_layout O|SHMC
/general/button_offset 0
/general/button_spacing 0
/general/click_to_focus true
/general/cycle_apps_only false
/general/cycle_draw_frame true
/general/cycle_hidden true
/general/cycle_minimum true
/general/cycle_preview true
/general/cycle_tabwin_mode 0
/general/cycle_workspaces false
/general/double_click_action maximize
/general/double_click_distance 5
/general/double_click_time 250
/general/easy_click Alt
/general/focus_delay 250
/general/focus_hint true
/general/focus_new true
/general/frame_opacity 100
/general/full_width_title false
/general/horiz_scroll_opacity false
/general/inactive_opacity 100
/general/maximized_offset 0
/general/mousewheel_rollup true
/general/move_opacity 100
/general/placement_mode center
/general/placement_ratio 20
/general/popup_opacity 100
/general/prevent_focus_stealing false
/general/raise_delay 250
/general/raise_on_click true
/general/raise_on_focus false
/general/raise_with_any_button true
/general/repeat_urgent_blink false
/general/resize_opacity 100
/general/restore_on_move true
/general/scroll_workspaces true
/general/shadow_delta_height 0
/general/shadow_delta_width 0
/general/shadow_delta_x 0
/general/shadow_delta_y -3
/general/shadow_opacity 50
/general/show_app_icon false
/general/show_dock_shadow true
/general/show_frame_shadow false
/general/show_popup_shadow false
/general/snap_resist false
/general/snap_to_border true
/general/snap_to_windows false
/general/snap_width 10
/general/sync_to_vblank false
/general/theme Default-4.8
/general/tile_on_move true
/general/title_alignment center
/general/title_font Sans Bold 9
/general/title_horizontal_offset 0
/general/titleless_maximize false
/general/title_shadow_active false
/general/title_shadow_inactive false
/general/title_vertical_offset_active 0
/general/title_vertical_offset_inactive 0
/general/toggle_workspaces false
/general/unredirect_overlays true
/general/urgent_blink false
/general/use_compositing false
/general/workspace_count 4
/general/workspace_names <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/general/wrap_cycle true
/general/wrap_layout true
/general/wrap_resistance 10
/general/wrap_windows true
/general/wrap_workspaces false
/general/zoom_desktop true
xsettings:
/Gtk/ButtonImages true
/Gtk/CanChangeAccels false
/Gtk/ColorPalette black:white:gray50:red:purple:blue:light blue:green:yellow:orange:lavender:brown:goldenrod4:dodger blue:pink:light green:gray10:gray30:gray75:gray90
/Gtk/CursorThemeName
/Gtk/CursorThemeSize 0
/Gtk/DecorationLayout menu:minimize,maximize,close
/Gtk/FontName DejaVu Sans 14
/Gtk/IconSizes
/Gtk/KeyThemeName
/Gtk/MenuBarAccel F10
/Gtk/MenuImages true
/Gtk/ToolbarIconSize 3
/Gtk/ToolbarStyle icons
/Net/CursorBlink true
/Net/CursorBlinkTime 1200
/Net/DndDragThreshold 8
/Net/DoubleClickDistance 5
/Net/DoubleClickTime 350
/Net/EnableEventSounds false
/Net/EnableInputFeedbackSounds false
/Net/IconThemeName gnome
/Net/SoundThemeName default
/Net/ThemeName Clearlooks
/Xfce/LastCustomDPI 96
/Xft/Antialias 1
/Xft/DPI 96
/Xft/Hinting -1
/Xft/HintStyle hintslight
/Xft/RGBA rgbWhat causes this difference?
Last edited by teal (2017-04-03 14:22:46)
Offline
#2 2017-04-04 00:26:33
- ToZ
- Administrator
- From: Canada
- Registered: 2011-06-02
- Posts: 11,000
Re: What causes xfce to look differently on machines with the same config?
Do you have something in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file?
Or something in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css?
Please remember to mark your thread [SOLVED] to make it easier for others to find
--- How To Ask For Help | FAQ | Developer Wiki | Community | Contribute ---
Offline
#3 2017-04-04 06:31:47
- teal
- Member
- Registered: 2012-12-07
- Posts: 11
Re: What causes xfce to look differently on machines with the same config?
Thanks for the info, the difference was indeed caused by changes in ~/.gtkrc-2.0.
Seems that the file was generated by one of the generic theme configuration programs, but since the machine is rarely restarted the effects of the change appeared only much later and therefore it was hard to understand a causality relationship.
Offline