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Kyansaa

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Registered: 2011-06-01

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[Solved] How to configure GTK3 themes' on XFCE ?

Hi!

I've Installed XFCE4 on my Arch this morning, but GTK3 applications have no themes : here a screen.

So I want to know how to apply a theme on GTK3 applications

Thanks!

Last edited by Kyansaa (2011-06-14 21:42:09)

Wey

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Registered: 2011-04-22

Posts: 217

Re: [Solved] How to configure GTK3 themes' on XFCE ?

Have a look at this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=116451

Kyansaa

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Registered: 2011-06-01

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Re: [Solved] How to configure GTK3 themes' on XFCE ?

Where is XDG_CONFIG_HOME ? And how to install the Adwaita theme ?

Wey

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Registered: 2011-04-22

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Re: [Solved] How to configure GTK3 themes' on XFCE ?

echo $XDG_CONFIG_HOME

And Adwaita comes packaged with gnome-themes-standard.

Kyansaa

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Registered: 2011-06-01

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Re: [Solved] How to configure GTK3 themes' on XFCE ?

This doesn't work for me, there is an other solution ? Did I miss something ?

Thanks.

Wey

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Registered: 2011-04-22

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Re: [Solved] How to configure GTK3 themes' on XFCE ?

There is more than one approach described in the thread, which one did you try?

Kyansaa

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Registered: 2011-06-01

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Re: [Solved] How to configure GTK3 themes' on XFCE ?

Oh I'm sorry I didn't read the others... Just the first.

So I've finally read the all topic and I block at the step to do that : "Making .config/gtk-3.0 a symlink to /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0 worked", I don't understand that... What is a symlink, who to do that ?

Thanks.

Wey

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Registered: 2011-04-22

Posts: 217

Re: [Solved] How to configure GTK3 themes' on XFCE ?

Create symbolic links with ln -s.

touch test1
ln -s test1 test2
ls -l test*
-rw-r--r-- 1 $USER users 0 14. Jun 22:26 test1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 $USER users 5 14. Jun 22:26 test2 -> test1

Translates to:

cd $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
mv gtk-3.0 backup-gtk-3.0
ln -s /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0 gtk-3.0

ls should now show:

ls -l gtk-3.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 $USER users 34 14. Jun 22:28 gtk-3.0 -> /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/

Kyansaa

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Registered: 2011-06-01

Posts: 29

Re: [Solved] How to configure GTK3 themes' on XFCE ?

Thanks! It's working.