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Update seems to have broken openbox theming.

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https://bbs.archlinux.org – I have tried to fix this issues using various methods with no success. Whatever kind of theme I try to apply gtk3 apps ignore, and as I am yet to find any gtk3 themes I guess there is nothing I can do. Just when I thought I had a working system with no problems........ oh and now the laptop has the problem as well.Here are my questions:#1.) Are there any decent gtk3 themes out there right now that I can use.#2.) How can I apply gtk3 themes in openbox?#3.) Is it possible to run a decent openbox system without any gnome dependencies thus avoiding gtk3, or would that be stupid?I am starting to fe (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 05/01/2011

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Hi, I installed a bunch of gnome 3 themes in Fedora 17 via yum, but they aren't showing anywhere when I start gnome-tweak-tool.

Why is this broken?

these are the themes: yum install zukitwo-gtk3-theme adwaita-gtk3-theme albatross-gtk3-theme bluebird-gtk3-theme egtk-gtk3-theme greybird-gtk3-theme light-gtk3-theme zukini-gtk3-theme zukiwi-gtk3-theme

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Hi everyone,

Using XFCE/XUbuntu. Now that (some) applications have been ported from GTk2 to Gtk3, theming is broken beause Gtk3 apps are apparently unable to apply Gtk2 themes (and maybe engines too, haven't figured out yet), so I would like to know what does a Gtk2 -> Gtk3 port involve, so I can maybe revert it and bring for example Rhythmbox, Gedit, Abiword etc etc etc...

GTK3 theme in KDE 39 weeks 8 hours ago

I am using Kubuntu 12.04 and QtCurve widget style which does not support GTK3:

How can apply a GNOME theme for GTK3 apps?

I found an advice here: installed gnome-themes-standard and gnome-themes-extras packages, created file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini:

[Settings] gtk-theme-name = Adwaita gtk-fallback-icon-theme = gnome

But this didn't help.

GTK themes in Gnome 3 follow a new syntax that is different from GTK2. The new CSS syntax in GTK3 makes it easier to make themes. Though it is easy to understand the CSS syntax than the old gtkrc syntax, it is not enough to know just CSS. GTK themes are more than that. A good start can be this tutorial and specifically this.

I will try to explain in brief what I have learnt about GTK3 theming.

I am really loving Gnome3. I know there are themes that include both GTK2 and GTK3 versions but i do really like the default Adwaita theme. Anyone know when programmes are likely to move on to GTK3? Also what about Firefox and Libreoffice integrating? I know they aren't GTK but with GTK2 they did fit in really well. Also really loving the mock ups of Gnome over the last while.

I really don't like the stock gtk3 themes and have never found one I like. I do however have a few gtk2 themes I really like. Can these gtk2 themes be ported to gtk3 or made to work in 11.10?

Overview of changes in Gtk3 0.008 [2012-08-26]: Add overrides for Gtk3::Gdk::Event; Add overrides for some Gtk3::RadioMenuItem constructors; Add overrides for Gtk3::CssProvider; Add overrides for Gtk3::UIManager; Always convert GdkRectangle objects to and from Cairo::RectangleInt.

gtk3 help? 33 weeks 5 days ago

I've been looking around quite a bit to solve my problem (or what I think my problem is) but to no avail. I'm trying to run a GTK3 theme, but it's not working, and I think I don't have GTK3 installed, I looked in my Home for the directory that should exist, but it's not there.

Since moving from Squeeze to Wheezy, i've been trying to get my themes to look the same in GTk3 or as close to as they do in GTK2 programs.