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Nektarios

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Registered: 2013-02-19

Posts: 90

GTK3: ugly menus, they have no border or shadow

For some days now (I don't know how many) GTK3 apps running in my Plasma 5 desktop have no borders and no shadows making them ugly and difficult to distinguish.

Here's an example:

This is happens on almost all menus, context menus, dropdown menus etc. They are very ugly and makes it unecessary hard trying to do my daily work.

I found an old thread dealing with a similar issue and I tried the "fix" with the ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css file but it didn't work. 

Anyone knows what's going on and how I can fix this? Thanks in advance.

ooo

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Registered: 2013-04-10

Posts: 1,638

Re: GTK3: ugly menus, they have no border or shadow

There was an gtk3 version bump, which usually breaks 3rd party themes. The default Adwaita theme has border around menus (and no shadows even under gnome session), so they should be distinguishable with it.

The gtk.css fix in the thread you linked should also still work though..

Nektarios

Member

Registered: 2013-02-19

Posts: 90

Re: GTK3: ugly menus, they have no border or shadow

I downgraded gtk3 to 3.16.2-1 and it still has the same problem. Maybe there are other packages that I need to downgrade to test it?

maz-1

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Registered: 2015-01-30

Posts: 6

Re: GTK3: ugly menus, they have no border or shadow

Same here. Feel tired of the frequent api change in gtk3 theming...

saivert

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Registered: 2014-06-13

Posts: 19

Re: GTK3: ugly menus, they have no border or shadow

So stick with Adwaita then or stop using a rolling distro.
Arch users complaining about changes...

Alad

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From: Bagelstan

Registered: 2014-05-04

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Re: GTK3: ugly menus, they have no border or shadow

More GTK2 users expecting theming to Just Work™

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