On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 14:30 -0400, Art Slurry wrote: > On 09/10/2012 01:40 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > You had good luck :) > > > > I never have seen a dark seem for Linux, that was ok, for what DE ever. > > There always were drawbacks. Sometimes GTK apps suffer even from light > > themes, when running Xfce. IMO it's most important, that everything is > > visible, text and scroll bars shouldn't become invisible. If the > > combination you checked out should be ok, please share all settings. > > > > Regards, > > Ralf > > > > > I lost track of the workflow, I changed so much. From various sites I: > > installed 'atwaita' and attempted to replace the > /usr/share/themes/atwaita/gtk-2.0 directory with the gtk-2.0 directory > from the theme I wanted, which didn't work. > > I found a theme that had directories for gnome-shell gtk-2.0 gtk-3.0, > etc, called moonrise from gnome-look.org -- I got errors indicating that > it needed the equinox engine, so > > I did sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox && sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-equinox > > went to settings manager > appearance and selected Moonrise as the > theme, began a new session > and everything works, gedit, nautilus...and all the default xfce apps > > :~/.themes/Moonrise$ ls > gnome-shell gtk-3.0 index.theme~ themePreview1.png > gtk-2.0 index.theme metacity-1 unity > > for thunderbird i chose add-on TT DeepDark 2.5.1, because it looked > nicer, with less brighter objects, lines, etc. > > In firefox, under colors, I selected 'use system settings' and unchecked > to allow web sites to use their own.. Every now and then, a picture may > not show up in the browser.. a minor inconvenience, i just go to the > color settings and temporarily enable web sites to use their own colors. > > so far, i've seen no missing text or buttons, scrollbars, etc., and more > importantly for me, no unexpected bright windows appearing (eyes > extremely sensitive to light). > > I hope that accurately explains what I did... I was going a little sudo > crazy there for an hour or so, and honestly have no idea why what I did > worked... it doesn't work on any other theme that I've found so far
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