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From: David Abbott <david@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I select a GTK 3 theme?
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:59:39
Message-Id: CACs9S6a7_HpQY3CGSnUa4TahCcYOgiZfPBuW8V5mwBy=3ouWhQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I select a GTK 3 theme? by Stroller
1 On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Stroller
2 <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3 >
4 > On 31 July 2011, at 00:56, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
5 >> ...
6 >> I got x11-themes/gtk-engines:3 from the gnome overlay installed so GTK 3
7 >> engines are there.  My problem is I don't know how to set a global theme
8 >> for GTK 3 (and the default is dead ugly).  If it is file
9 >> ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini then I haven't got that to work, yet.
10 >>
11 >> What's your recipe to select GTK 3 themes?
12 >> Any quality links or guidance would be great.
13 >
14 > There's some discussion of theming and ugliness in GTK3 in Nikos' bug 374057.
15 >
16 > This really isn't my manor (so please forgive me if I'm mistaken) but you might find, e.g., comment 38 useful.
17 >
18 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374057#c38
19 >
20 > 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.
21 >
22 > I'm just surprised no-one else more knowledgable than I has answered yet.
23 >
24 >
25 >
26 Hi Sebastian
27 I ran across this but did not try it yet;
28 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=116652
29 I bet nirbheek would know :)
30 All the best,
31 David

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