On 13.11.2017. 00:47, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
Hi all - I've just installed xfce and xfce-extras on my x86_64 box, running the snapshot from 11/11. I'm having trouble with gtk+3 applications such as firefox and geany. It *seems* gtk+3 is not being recognized, i.e., the scrollbar is an inoperative, wide gtk+2-type scrollbar, applications appear as though they are missing theming, e.g., there are no icons in the toolbars, all menu entries are scrunched together, etc. Also, in some xfce utilities, like the Notifications and Power Manager settings windows, are missing things like sliders and drop-down boxes; they are just text, and are therefore virtually unusable. I believe I have all the appropriate gtk+3 packages installed, as all gtk+3 apps work well when I'm using Awesome WM. Is this a gtk+3 issue, or am I missing some essential setting or package? Any suggestions?
I encountered this long ago, but it is actually not an OpenBSD or gtk+3 issue. The problem is lack of gtk+3 themes in Xfce 4.12. Until Xfce 4.14 is released, you can try adding some theme from an another source. For example, https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1191436/ looks promising. Personally, I currently avoid "gtk3 only" applications, and stick with gtk2. Some (such as LibreOffice) switched to gtk3 default, but can still be compiled with gtk2. Another, such as Firefox, dropped gtk2 support some time ago. I currently use Firefox 52.4.1 ESR, since the ESR branch will support gtk2 for another year or so. Cheers
