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rh995

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Registered: 2012-03-09

Posts: 76

[SOLVED] Gedit in Awesome Window Manager

I use the Awesome window manager since recently, and before this, I used gnome 3 for all of my desktop environment needs.  Due to this, I am comfortable with gedit, and would prefer not to have to learn something else.  However, when I install gedit, and launch it, it looks incredibly ugly.  Unusably ugly.  I imagine this has something to do with my gtk 2 theme, maybe gtk 3.  Here is some gtk information, mostly the contents of files:
cat .gtkrc-2.0

# DO NOT EDIT! This file will be overwritten by LXAppearance.
# Any customization should be done in ~/.gtkrc-2.0.mine instead.

gtk-theme-name="Hope-DT"
gtk-icon-theme-name="gnome"
gtk-font-name="Sans 10"
gtk-cursor-theme-name="Adwaita"
gtk-cursor-theme-size=0
gtk-toolbar-style=GTK_TOOLBAR_ICONS
gtk-toolbar-icon-size=GTK_ICON_SIZE_LARGE_TOOLBAR
gtk-button-images=0
gtk-menu-images=1
gtk-enable-event-sounds=1
gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds=1
gtk-xft-antialias=1
gtk-xft-hinting=1
gtk-xft-hintstyle="hintfull"
gtk-xft-rgba="rgb"
include "/home/ray/.gtkrc-2.0.mine"

cat .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

[Settings] 
gtk-theme-name=Hope-DT
gtk-icon-theme-name=gnome
gtk-font-name=Sans 10
gtk-cursor-theme-name=Adwaita
gtk-cursor-theme-size=0
gtk-toolbar-style=GTK_TOOLBAR_ICONS
gtk-toolbar-icon-size=GTK_ICON_SIZE_LARGE_TOOLBAR
gtk-button-images=0
gtk-menu-images=1
gtk-enable-event-sounds=1
gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds=1
gtk-xft-antialias=1
gtk-xft-hinting=1
gtk-xft-hintstyle=hintfull
gtk-xft-rgba=rgb

And here is a nice screenshot of how gedit looks:

I can't figure out how to take a screenshot of a context menu, but it is bad.

Last edited by rh995 (2013-12-31 00:20:16)

Radioactiveman

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From: Germany

Registered: 2010-05-13

Posts: 389

Re: [SOLVED] Gedit in Awesome Window Manager

Your theme is not compatible with GTK+ 3.10.
But according to this, a port is in progress.

clfarron4

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2013-06-28

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Re: [SOLVED] Gedit in Awesome Window Manager

How about using the awesome-gnome package?

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rh995

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Registered: 2012-03-09

Posts: 76

Re: [SOLVED] Gedit in Awesome Window Manager

Your theme is not compatible with GTK+ 3.10.
But according to this, a port is in progress.

Wow, I just changed the theme, and suddenly gedit is beautiful.  Thank you so much.  I will find a similar theme that supports GTK+ now.  Marking this as solved.