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From: Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I select a GTK 3 theme?
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:46:17
Message-Id: 4E383790.30402@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I select a GTK 3 theme? by David Abbott
1 I played a bit more and found out a few bits:
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3 - Changing "Style" in XFCE's appearance switches the theme
4 for both GTK+ 2.x and 3.x, no matter what key "gtk-theme-name"
5 of /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini and ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini say
6 though these files are read according to strace
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8 - The GTK+ 3.0 engine for Clearlooks (libclearlooks.so) seems to be
9 provided by both
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11 A) x11-themes/gtk-engines-clearlooks-2.91.5 (gnome overlay)
12 B) x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.91.1 (gnome overlay)
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14 at different locations:
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16 A) /usr/lib64/gtk-3.0/theming-engines/libclearlooks.so
17 B) /usr/lib64/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/engines/libclearlooks.so
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19 GTK seems to looks for (A) only according to strace.
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21 - Neither package A nor B provide a file
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23 /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
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25 which is required to even activate the Clearlooks engine.
26 To active the engine, put the line
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28 * { engine: clearlooks; }
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30 in. Expect this to look ugly.
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32 - By putting
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34 [Settings]
35 gtk-theme-name = Clearlooks
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37 into /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
38 you can produce endless loops. Nice!
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40 From a workaround perspective the most interesting question to me is:
41 where do I get (default or good looking) CSS files for GTK+ 3.0 Clearlooks.
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43 Best,
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47 Sebastian

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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I select a GTK 3 theme? Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o>