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napsy

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Registered: 2009-03-07

Posts: 48

Window borders of gtk2 apps are in wrong color in gnome 3.x

Hello.

I use gvim very frequently. Recently I've switched to dark Adwaita on gnome 3.10 but the window border of gvim (which is a gtk 2 app) is still white. Is there a way to tell mutter to use the dark theme when runing gtk2 apps?

Greets.

ishaanbahal

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From: India

Registered: 2013-07-11

Posts: 22

Re: Window borders of gtk2 apps are in wrong color in gnome 3.x

As far as I know the tweak tool only converts gtk3 apps to dark for the adwaita theme. I do not know how to tell mutter to render dark gtk2 apps but i can tell you a theme that has both black gtk2 and gtk3 theme set.. Its numix.. Looks great.
Have a look

http://i.imgur.com/itFYaeE.png

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napsy

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Registered: 2009-03-07

Posts: 48

Re: Window borders of gtk2 apps are in wrong color in gnome 3.x

Thanks for the answer. But in my case, I only want mutter to use the dark theme, gtk2 is fine with whatever theme it has because in my example, gvim doesn't have a lot of gtk2 widgets.

ooo

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Registered: 2013-04-10

Posts: 1,638

Re: Window borders of gtk2 apps are in wrong color in gnome 3.x

at least adwaita mutter theme picks its colors from gtk theme

one option would be finding a dark gtk2 theme that suits you (google reveals a few dark variants for adwaita gtk2), and replacing the existing adwaita gtk2 theme with it.
or pick a dark theme suite that works for both gtk versions.

Last edited by ooo (2014-03-18 08:53:38)