Re: [gentoo-user] How do I select a GTK 3 theme?
I played a bit more and found out a few bits:
- Changing Style in XFCE's appearance switches the theme
for both GTK+ 2.x and 3.x, no matter what key gtk-theme-name
of /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini and ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini say
though these files are read according to strace
- The GTK+ 3.0 engine for Clearlooks (libclearlooks.so) seems to be
provided by both
A) x11-themes/gtk-engines-clearlooks-2.91.5 (gnome overlay)
B) x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.91.1 (gnome overlay)
at different locations:
A) /usr/lib64/gtk-3.0/theming-engines/libclearlooks.so
B) /usr/lib64/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/engines/libclearlooks.so
GTK seems to looks for (A) only according to strace.
- Neither package A nor B provide a file
/usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
which is required to even activate the Clearlooks engine.
To active the engine, put the line
* { engine: clearlooks; }
in. Expect this to look ugly.
- By putting
[Settings]
gtk-theme-name = Clearlooks
into /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
you can produce endless loops. Nice!
From a workaround perspective the most interesting question to me is:
where do I get (default or good looking) CSS files for GTK+ 3.0 Clearlooks.
Best,
Sebastian
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I select a GTK 3 theme?
Update: I managed to get the light-themes (Ambiance and Radiance)[1] of Ubuntu running for both GTK 2 and 3. Their GTK 3 versions make use of the unico engine which requires rather recent gtk3 and glib. To get it running you need install x11-themes/light-themes from the betagarden overlay [2]. You'll need to handle KEYWORDS= using keywords ** one way or another. Use these packages at your own risk. On 08/02/2011 07:44 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: A) /usr/lib64/gtk-3.0/theming-engines/libclearlooks.so B) /usr/lib64/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/engines/libclearlooks.so GTK seems to looks for (A) only according to strace. Correction, (A) is missing 3.0.0/ so it's rather: A) /usr/lib64/gtk-3.0/theming-engines/libclearlooks.so B) /usr/lib64/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/engines/libclearlooks.so Sebastian [1] http://www.webupd8.org/2011/06/ambiance-finally-ported-to-gtk3-ubuntu.html [2] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/betagarden.git;a=summary
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I select a GTK 3 theme?
On 31 July 2011, at 00:56, Sebastian Pipping wrote: ... I got x11-themes/gtk-engines:3 from the gnome overlay installed so GTK 3 engines are there. My problem is I don't know how to set a global theme for GTK 3 (and the default is dead ugly). If it is file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini then I haven't got that to work, yet. What's your recipe to select GTK 3 themes? Any quality links or guidance would be great. There's some discussion of theming and ugliness in GTK3 in Nikos' bug 374057. This really isn't my manor (so please forgive me if I'm mistaken) but you might find, e.g., comment 38 useful. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374057#c38 There's mention of using the Adwaita theme and placing a symlink which appears to be required to get GTK3 to honour your theme selection. I'm just surprised no-one else more knowledgable than I has answered yet.
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I select a GTK 3 theme?
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 31 July 2011, at 00:56, Sebastian Pipping wrote: ... I got x11-themes/gtk-engines:3 from the gnome overlay installed so GTK 3 engines are there. My problem is I don't know how to set a global theme for GTK 3 (and the default is dead ugly). If it is file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini then I haven't got that to work, yet. What's your recipe to select GTK 3 themes? Any quality links or guidance would be great. There's some discussion of theming and ugliness in GTK3 in Nikos' bug 374057. This really isn't my manor (so please forgive me if I'm mistaken) but you might find, e.g., comment 38 useful. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374057#c38 There's mention of using the Adwaita theme and placing a symlink which appears to be required to get GTK3 to honour your theme selection. I'm just surprised no-one else more knowledgable than I has answered yet. Hi Sebastian I ran across this but did not try it yet; https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=116652 I bet nirbheek would know :) All the best, David
