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Richard Stockworth

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Registered: 2016-12-26

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[SOLVED] How to improve application menu's visual

Hi,

I have a simple i3 WM, everything works but I'm wondering if there is something I can install to get nicer menus in applications.
Like for example in Firefox when I go in File, Edit, View ... or when applications open a window to save a file. With just i3 it is quite ugly.

I don't know which part of the system is supposed to take care of it.

Last edited by Richard Stockworth (2017-02-19 08:38:30)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] How to improve application menu's visual

That would be handled entirely by the toolkit that the application in question uses.  Firefox uses gtk3:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GTK%2B

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Richard Stockworth

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Re: [SOLVED] How to improve application menu's visual

Is it part of the gtk theme? So I can change it with the gtk3 option "gtk-theme-name"?

Last edited by Richard Stockworth (2017-02-18 13:19:58)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] How to improve application menu's visual

Yes.

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Richard Stockworth

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Re: [SOLVED] How to improve application menu's visual

I installed Arc theme from here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk-theme-arc-git/

I created the file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

[Settings]
gtk-icon-theme-name = gnome
gtk-theme-name = Arc-Dark

Firefox is able to find the theme but only the colors are changing (to dark), everything else is still the same (rounded angles for tabs ...). What did I forget?

Last edited by Richard Stockworth (2017-02-18 20:39:17)

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Re: [SOLVED] How to improve application menu's visual

If you want to change the tabs appearence on firefox, you can use different firefox theme, e.g.
https://github.com/horst3180/arc-firefox-theme

Richard Stockworth

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Re: [SOLVED] How to improve application menu's visual

Oh yes, thank you, I mixed everything.