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Flowneee

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Registered: 2016-03-22

Posts: 8

New version of xfce4-notifyd broke notifications theme

Today I upgraded `xfce4-notifyd` from version `0.4.4-2` to `0.6.0-1`, and this upgrade broke notifications themes: they became white, but always was black, because of theme, see below:

Old (which is correct):

New (which is incorrect):

So I'm not sure, whether it is bug and I should report it or am I missing something? Maybe it is expected behavior and my theme (Numix) is just outdated.

archtom

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Registered: 2011-05-04

Posts: 58

Re: New version of xfce4-notifyd broke notifications theme

I'm having the same problem.

As temporary workaround (not the same, but also a dark theme that works) I use Smoke theme.

# get current theme
xfconf-query -c xfce4-notifyd -p /theme

# set theme
xfconf-query -c xfce4-notifyd -p /theme -s Smoke -n -t string
#xfconf-query -c xfce4-notifyd -p /theme -s Default -n -t string

EDIT: changed commands to create entry if it does not exist.

Last edited by archtom (2020-04-14 19:02:56)

Praxis88

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Registered: 2019-11-19

Posts: 19

Re: New version of xfce4-notifyd broke notifications theme

I am having the same issue with the Arc-Darker theme. It appears that xfce4-notifyd is not using the default system theming as it should.

nikatar

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Registered: 2019-03-16

Posts: 9

Re: New version of xfce4-notifyd broke notifications theme

Apparently it will be necessary to edit gtk.css or css in the theme of xfce4-notifyd
https://docs.xfce.org/apps/notifyd/theming

nikatar

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Registered: 2019-03-16

Posts: 9

Re: New version of xfce4-notifyd broke notifications theme

Add this in your ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css, if you use Default theme, or create corresponding file gtk.css in /usr/share/your_theme/xfce-notify-4.0 and choose this theme in settings of xfce4-notifyd. The first option is preferable, because it will not be sensitive to upgrade.
It's accord to colors of arc themes. You can edit it according to your tastes. Everything is obvious there.

#XfceNotifyWindow { 
    border-radius: 0px;
    border-width: 0px;
    border-color: #3f484d;
    background-color: #3f484d;    
}

#XfceNotifyWindow label#summary {
    font-weight: Bold;
}

#XfceNotifyWindow label,
#XfceNotifyWindow image {
    color: #e4e5e8;
}

#XfceNotifyWindow button {
    border-style: none;
    background-image: none;
    background-color: #656c70;
}

#XfceNotifyWindow button:hover {
    border-style: none;
    background-image: none;
    background-color: #5294e2;
}

Last edited by nikatar (2020-04-19 21:32:24)

Flowneee

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Registered: 2016-03-22

Posts: 8

Re: New version of xfce4-notifyd broke notifications theme

Apparently it will be necessary to edit gtk.css or css in the theme of xfce4-notifyd
https://docs.xfce.org/apps/notifyd/theming

I see that this bug has been reported to Numix developers: https://github.com/numixproject/numix-g … issues/743. Hope this will be fixed soon. For now I gonna stay on old version of xfce4-notifyd, because I don't like the idea of edit css themes manually.

nikatar

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Registered: 2019-03-16

Posts: 9

Re: New version of xfce4-notifyd broke notifications theme

It is likely that the situation is reversed and NOW xfce4-notifyd reads gtk themes correctly)
It would be funny