Window decoration and triple bluetooth pop-up at boot

Archer22 · 2014-09-01 14:19:05

Hi all,

A couple of days ago I started to install and migrate from Kubuntu to Arch, and so far I'm very pleased with the results and progress. Not in the last place because of the great wiki which seems to have an answer to almost every problem. Almost, because now I ran into some problems which are not really related to Arch, but more to the configuration of kde.

First, on top of Arch I installed the KDE environment. Now in this environment, particularly in the system settings, some options are given to change styles, decorations ann visualizations. However, I tried a lot of options but somehow I'm not able to change the presentation of some windows. I will add a screenshot to explain what I mean:

As you can see the buttons and some bars don' t look nice, but rather 20 year old. As said, I can not change the style of these windows and presentation. Does anyone have a clue what is going on here?

Further I have some weird problem with my bluetooth application (bluedevil). Every time I boot the system, it opens three windows which are all the same searching for new bluetooth devices. Any suggestions how I could solve this problem?

Thanks in advance

Last edited by Archer22 (2014-09-01 15:00:15)

hokasch · 2014-09-01 14:53:00

Edit your post and switch out the images with thumbnails, or they will be removed by a mod
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/fo … s_and_Code

Looks like a gtk themeing issue? Gnome has "integration" plugins for Firefox/Mozilla, maybe KDE has something similar. Also check:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Un … plications

mrshannon · 2014-09-01 15:04:24

Those applications you showed are GTK applications (Firefox and Thunderbird). Assuming this issue does not exist with native KDE applications the problem is most likely that you need to install kde-gtk-config, oxygen-gtk2, and oxygen-gtk3. After this you can set the GTK theme from KDE system settings and it should look more uniform with the rest of KDE.

Last edited by mrshannon (2014-09-01 15:05:04)

ewaller · 2014-09-01 15:06:07

Hi Archer22, and welcome to Arch Linux.
Thank you for revising the post to make the pictures smaller. We ask that people not post large pictures (on non-picture threads) because some of our members are on slow and/or metered connections. You may want to provide BBCode url links to the full size pictures so that anyone interested can click through. That might convey more information without requiring everyone to load large images.

Thanks.

Last edited by ewaller (2014-09-01 15:24:15)

Archer22 · 2014-09-01 15:13:47

Hi hokasch, mrshannon and ewaller,

Thanks for your comments and proposed solutions. The solution of mrshannon worked immediatly, so thank you for this! One problem solved. Now I need to solve the problem of the bluetooth application which opens three windows at boot.

I know KDE has an option that it wil restore or open applications which were open when the operating system shutted down. Maybe it has to do with this, that KDE has saved these windows somewhere and now opens them every time I boot the system. If anyone knows where I can find this, it would be of great help. Otherwise I will look into it myself the next days.

Thanks again for the quick replies and proposed solutions!

Edit: Bluetooth problem was solved through starting with an empty session in KDE instead of restoring the old one.

Last edited by Archer22 (2014-09-21 10:39:03)

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Window decoration and triple bluetooth pop-up at boot

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