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fjc

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Registered: 2018-07-31

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Cannot get xfce4-terminal to use same window decoration as rest

Hi,

I am trying to get my XFCE4 terminal to use the same window decoration as all other applications.

However, it keeps using the same old decoration, no matter what I pick in settings.

The following screenshot shows the terminal right next to Thunar, which beautifully applies the Numix theme:

What am I doing wrong here?

Update: The same is happening with Thunderbird, Firefox.

Last edited by fjc (2018-07-31 10:17:39)

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: Cannot get xfce4-terminal to use same window decoration as rest

Hello and welcome.

Which distro and what version of Xfce are you running?

What are your base appearance settings:

xfconf-query -c xsettings -lv

Do you have anything in your user gtk config files:

cat ~/.gtkrc-2.0
cat ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

Are you running both applications as the same user? Let's see:

ps -ef | grep xfce4-terminal
ps -ef | grep thunar

Update: The same is happening with Thunderbird, Firefox.

Are they showing xfce4-terminal's theme or thunar's theme?

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fjc

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Re: Cannot get xfce4-terminal to use same window decoration as rest

Hey and thanks for the help,

I am using Xubuntu 18.04.

 $ xfconf-query -c xsettings -lv
/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            Human
/Gtk/CursorThemeSize            24
/Gtk/DecorationLayout           :minimize,maximize,close
/Gtk/FontName                   Noto Sans 9
/Gtk/IconSizes                  gtk-button=16,16
/Gtk/KeyThemeName               
/Gtk/MenuBarAccel               F10
/Gtk/MenuImages                 true
/Gtk/MonospaceFontName          Monospace 10
/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/FallbackIconTheme          gnome
/Net/IconThemeName              elementary-xfce-darker
/Net/SoundThemeName             default
/Net/ThemeName                  Greybird $ ps aux|grep Thunar
fchristl 13192  0.0  0.2 474316 35044 ?        Sl   12:09   0:01 Thunar --daemon
fchristl 17022  0.0  0.0  40048  1040 pts/0    S+   12:37   0:00 grep --color=auto Thunar

/Xft/Antialias                  1
/Xft/DPI                        96
/Xft/Hinting                    1
/Xft/HintStyle                  hintslight
/Xft/Lcdfilter                  lcddefault
/Xft/RGBA                       rgb

~/.gtkrc-2.0
~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

both do not exist.

fchristl@fchristl-desktop:~ $ ps -ef | grep xfce4-terminal
fchristl 13688     1  0 12:10 ?        00:00:03 /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal
fchristl 16897 13692  0 12:36 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto xfce4-terminal

fchristl@fchristl-desktop:~ $ ps -ef|grep Thunar
fchristl 13192     1  0 12:09 ?        00:00:01 Thunar --daemon
fchristl 17093 13692  0 12:37 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto Thunar

Thunderbird and Firefox are showing xfce4-terminal's theme, not Thunar's.

Last edited by fjc (2018-07-31 10:37:41)

ToZ

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Re: Cannot get xfce4-terminal to use same window decoration as rest

Can you run:

ps -ef | grep -i thunar

...with a thunar window open?

/Net/ThemeName                  Greybird

Your system is currently set up to use the Greybird theme. Can you go to Settings Manager > Appearance > Style and change it to Numix?

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fjc

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Re: Cannot get xfce4-terminal to use same window decoration as rest

Your system is currently set up to use the Greybird theme. Can you go to Settings Manager > Appearance > Style and change it to Numix?

I cannot believe I have not tried that, but that actually solved the issue. Thank you so much!

Just for my understanding: Why does the GTK theme influence the XFWM display?

ToZ

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Re: Cannot get xfce4-terminal to use same window decoration as rest

xfwm4 can inherit GTK colours. For more info, see the GTK Color Pickup section.

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rjunior8

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Registered: 2019-11-09

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Re: Cannot get xfce4-terminal to use same window decoration as rest

How to do the inverse, like his screenshot?