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x-yuri

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[SOLVED] How do I make Awesome look more like GNOME?

Hi,

On the other machine I had installed both Awesome and GNOME. And applications (probably, widgets they used) running in Awesome looked a lot like in GNOME. Now I don't have GNOME installed, and they don't. But I'd like to avoid installing GNOME.

Let's take Thunar for example:

http://i.imgur.com/5qVnjai.png

From what I can see, it's a GTK application:

$ ldd $(which thunar) | egrep '(gtk|qt)'
        libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fab2e97b000)

And current GTK theme is:

$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme
'Adwaita'

But for some reason, the applications look nothing like this.

I've seen this article, but it doesn't seem to be relevant here. Since I'm having GTK application that doesn't look like one. At least to me.

What am I missing? Your help is more than welcome.

Last edited by x-yuri (2017-06-21 19:40:57)

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Re: [SOLVED] How do I make Awesome look more like GNOME?

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Ropid

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Re: [SOLVED] How do I make Awesome look more like GNOME?

I used "lxappearance-gtk3" to set the theme.

x-yuri

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Registered: 2013-01-06

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Re: [SOLVED] How do I make Awesome look more like GNOME?

When I run lxc-appearance, it looks like what I'm trying to achieve: http://i.imgur.com/MCyTV3V.png But when I click Raleigh, it changes to what Thunar looks like: http://i.imgur.com/zfM36RH.png But not exactly. Thunar is more... 3d-like. http://i.imgur.com/faZ16zA.png

Could it be that applications choose wrong widget style by default? Or that Adwaita widget style is not fully functional?

Last edited by x-yuri (2017-06-21 10:50:00)

x-yuri

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Re: [SOLVED] How do I make Awesome look more like GNOME?

I was able to fix it by installing `gnome-themes-standard`:

http://i.imgur.com/nq77zel.png