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#1 2011-06-07 20:16:09

Daggerbot
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Running GNOME apps in Xfce; not detecting GTK+ theme

I primarily use Xfce4 as my desktop environment, but with some GNOME apps such as file-roller and gedit. It appears that GNOME apps no longer detect the current GTK+ theme while using Xfce. They just use the horrible, blocky default theme. This seems to have started after an update about a month ago, and reinstalling the system didn't fix it. Has anyone else had this problem? Any help is appreciated.

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#2 2011-06-07 20:32:21

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Re: Running GNOME apps in Xfce; not detecting GTK+ theme

Those applications use GTK3 and thus require a GTK3 theme.


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#3 2011-06-07 20:49:33

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Re: Running GNOME apps in Xfce; not detecting GTK+ theme

Thanks for the quick reply! I'm currently compiling the GNOME 2 versions of gedit and file-roller, so maybe that will fix it.

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#4 2011-06-07 21:15:53

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Re: Running GNOME apps in Xfce; not detecting GTK+ theme

If nothing else give medit a try.   It's very similar to gedit, but doesn't depend on gnome, just the gtk2 toolkit.

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#5 2011-06-07 23:33:14

Kinux
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Re: Running GNOME apps in Xfce; not detecting GTK+ theme

I had the same problem. Searching the forums, the solution for me was to :
pacman -S gnome-themes-standard

And then a symbolic link to gtk3 theme :
ln -s /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0 ~/.config/

This way the new gedit or fileroller use the Adwaita theme while normal Xfce programs use the one I set in Appearance settings.

Hope this helps you too.

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#6 2012-01-08 04:04:08

liaonux
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Re: Running GNOME apps in Xfce; not detecting GTK+ theme

Kinux wrote:

I had the same problem. Searching the forums, the solution for me was to :
pacman -S gnome-themes-standard

And then a symbolic link to gtk3 theme :
ln -s /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0 ~/.config/

This way the new gedit or fileroller use the Adwaita theme while normal Xfce programs use the one I set in Appearance settings.

Hope this helps you too.

Hi,my friend, You are right! Thank you very much!!! big_smile

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