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surfatwork

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Registered: 2012-01-05

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SOLVED/Howto: Gnome and Chromium issues

I recently upgraded to Gnome 3.12 and chromium 35, and had UI issues. Both of them looked like they were from Windows 3.1.
I have seen some posts and threads on this, and thought the below may be of help. I understood this from various forums, so thanks to all of them.

1. Fix Gnome issues:
You may have seen some elements, such as nautilus, looking really ugly. This is because your theme does not support Gnome 3.12. To resolve:
- Download and install a 3.12 compatible GTK 3+ theme. e.g. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ … ent=152192
- Use gnome tweak tool and select this theme as your GTK+ theme

To help things a bit more, you can also do the following:
- Update ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css with the following. If this file and/or folder aren't present, create them.

.window-frame {
	border-color: 0;
	box-shadow: 0; 
	margin: 1
}

- Logoff and on, if necessary

2. Fix chromium issues
I noticed that Chromium mouse cursors looked bad - the ancient pointy finger was back!! To fix this,
- Update /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme with the following. If this file and/or folder aren't present, create them. You will need to be root or sudo to do this.

[Icon Theme]
Inherits=Adwaita

- restart chromium
Note: Instead of Adwaita, you can also specify any mouse theme you have installed (e.g. aero-drop)

Not sure if I should stick this on the wiki.