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Where does GSettings store its files?
I would like to have a look at the files the dconf-editor uses to read/write settings, and I'm assuming that they are managed by gsettings. Where are these files stored on the system, and in what ...
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Set gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme as a user setting
Is there a way to set gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme for an application?
This is normally set in the code by the application. Apps such as Eye of Gnome and Totem turn it on. I want to, as a user ...
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Reduce eclipse tab size with GTK theming
In Eclipse on Fedora, these controls/widgets take up too much space:
How can I make those bars thinner with a gtk-rc file or GTK3 CSS theming?
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How do I execute a program in gnome and make it use another gtk theme other than the default one?
I use a dark theme and the program that I am trying to run hard-codes some color values that make it unusable with the dark theme settings. I want to run this program without the dark theme being ...
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Disable “Recently used” in GTK file/directory selector
Can I completely disable "Recently Used" feature in GTK's file / directory selector?
Sometimes programs default to this but since it's not useful in my work-flow and with the way I organize my ...
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How do I update IcedTea?
I've only been using Linux for about a month. I'm running Mint 13. I'm trying to use www.goproblems.com but it tells me that my IcedTea is out of date. I hoped there was a package but I can't find ...
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How can I run Firefox on Linux headlessly (i.e. without requiring libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0)?
I’ve got Dreamhost shared hosting, and I’m trying to run Firefox 3.0 on it headlessly for use with Selenium.
When I try to run it (~/local/bin/firefox/firefox), I get the following error message:
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Is there a command which lists installed applications based on whether they use GTK2 or GTK3?
I'm using Lubuntu 12.10 and I know of two ways to tell if a specific program uses GTK2 or GTK3:
I can make changes in ~/.themes/theme_name/gtk-2.0/gtkrc, for example, and see if a specific ...
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Any tool for inspecting GTK3 elements?
gtkparasite is great for GTK2, but unfortunatelly it can't do GTK3 applications.
Is there any alternative?
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Will GNOME and GTK libs bloat up my KDE?
I want to use Shutter. I installed it previously under Kubuntu and it needed a lot of libs.
What bothered me most was that Kubuntu wanted me to restart, that is rare for OS's nowadays and in general ...
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indistinguishable active tab in gnome terminal
I am running Gnome 2.30.2 and Gnome Terminal 3.0.1 on my Debian Sid and recently the active tab became almost indistinguishable from other tabs. It is actually the same colour. Changing the themes ...
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How to prevent a Qt/GTK app (Calibre) from using colors defined in .Xresources?
I have colors defined in .Xresources. They look lovely on urxvt, and utterly ghastly on Calibre.
Calibre does not appear to have any way to disable or override those colors, so is there any way I can ...
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Suddenly I have troubles plotting with python
I have a code that I used yesterday to generate plots. Today, when I tried to use it (with the same input as yesterday), I get an error:
QGtkStyle was unable to detect the current GTK+ theme.
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How to launch a GTK program centered on the screen?
I'm trying to launch xcalc from the command line, in my embedded Unix, and I would like it to start centered on the screen, is there a way?
By the way, I'm using WindowMaker, if it makes any ...
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KDE theme manager in pure OpenBox WM?
I've setup a pure OpenBox system with no specific desktop environment like Gnome, KDE, or Xfce, etc... It works well, and I have been able to customise the desktop's appearance with software like ...
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How to get the icon for a MIME type?
How to get the icon for a MIME type?
I don't want to use g_file_info_get_icon() because its input parameter is a file, not a MIME type.
My use case:
I have a wrapper file which embeds a media ...
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How to add gtk2 theme to KDE?
I'm trying to find a good GTK theme that I like for certain applications. Trouble is, I don't use Gnome-- I have OpenSUSE 12.2 x64 with KDE 4.9 only. So if I've downloaded a theme tarball, what can I ...
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GVim compiled from source does not use gtk2
I have two HP-UX machines say A and B with HP-UX 11.11 and 11.31 respectively. I'have compiled gvim 7.3 from source an B, and gvim 7.0 on A.
On A, gvim uses "version with GTK GUI", Compilation with ...
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Gtk theme won't apply in Fluxbox
I installed my Arch Linux with Gnome 3 and Fluxbox on top of it, and I use Fluxbox as the default, but I have this weird problem that I can't manage to fix. I set my theme for Fluxbox and that is ...
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Theme looks different depending on location in FS?
I am noticing an annoying effect when copying GTK themes and I am unable to explain it. Copying a theme from /usr/share/themes to ~/.local/share/themes results in a new theme that looks different than ...
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Diacritics do not work in GTK+ applications running on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
I am using some GTK+ applications in Mac OS X Snow Leopard. My MacBook is configured for using the Brazilian layout, which allows it to enter diacritics as dead keys (so I can write á typing ' and ...
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Are there distros that still ship GTK+ 1?
GTK+ 1 has been deprecated some years ago, and I'm curious if there's still anyone shipping it and/or apps using it. Also, are there still actively-developed apps using it?
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What is this .gtkrc file?
I was going through Tim Pope's dotfiles and I happened to notice that he had a .gtkrc file. What does this configuration file do? And how can I make one of those?
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gcc: -pthread: No such file or directory
Trying to compile following code in terminal i got
gcc: -pthread: No such file or directory,
what does this error means and how to eliminate it?
file name: window.c
code:
#include ...
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Modifying menu color of a gtk 3.0 theme
I'm trying to integrate a GTK3.0 theme with xfwm4 theme,
Now I need to change the menu background color, so I get the color value with gcolor and tried to grep for that value, nothing found under ...
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GTK+3 config Arch/LXDE
I use Arch + LXDE. I performed a full system upgrade and upgraded packages seems to have included GTK+3. Since the upgrade, my GTK+3 progs such as GEdit, Evince, etc. look somehow terrible (unusual ...
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Launch a GTK3 aplication without customized gtk settings?
In previous versions of gtk it was easy to launch one instance of an application with default gtk settings:
GTK2_RC_FILES= epdfview
But for version 3, it won't work anymore:
GTK3_RC_FILES= evince
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Dead (compose) keys not working in GTK apps since upgrade
I'm running Kubuntu with KDE as my main desktop environment.
A while ago I set up dead keys so I can type Chinese pinyin and other accented letters and special characters.
As a side note, I use IBUS ...
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How to prevent the auto creation of the “Desktop” folder? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which application should I blame for compulsively creating a directory again and again?
When I upload files via Firefox, the Open File dialog appears and the Desktop ...
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Can Qt SDK be used for development on any Linux distro?
Fisrt of all I am a Windows developer guy but really like Linux. On Windows, Visual Studio provides an excellent IDE for C and C++ development. The only other IDE and toolkit I like is the Qt SDK and ...
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How do I change Xfce 4 “theme” tab colors?
I recently switched over to Xfce and really enjoy it. However, when I went in to my settings to change the appearance, the theme that I liked best was "Xfce-dusk" with one exception:
The default ...
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How can I make window borders transparent in Gnome?
I want to create a GTK+ 3.0 theme (for Gnome 3.6+) that features transparent window borders. Is this possible? If so, how can I do it?
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How to install GTK3 in Centos 6.2
I have Centos 6.2 and I want to install GTK3 to be able to install gitg.
I looked up on Google, and couldn't find anything useful. The thing is people suggest I need to install GTK3 by manually ...
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Gnome: Make system text copyable
Here I use "system text" to refer to the text displayed in the GTK widgets (labels, menus, dialogs etc.)
I would like to be able to highlight and copy any system text. I am using a locale with a ...
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Running Darktable under Xfce using specific color style/theme
I tried running Darktable (version 1.0.4-1~bpo60+1 from Debian Squeeze-backports) under Xfce, but I am using a fairly light "Style" theme in Xfce which Darktable didn't work too well with. It seems to ...
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GTK 3 apps text backdrop looks wrong, on any theme
I am having a problem with GTK 3 applications (GTK 2 apps work correctly): no matter which theme I choose, there are many places where colors are off.
E.g. in the screenshot you can see that the ...
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How should one change the width of scrollbar?
I started using Linux Mint 13 Mate a few days ago and I can't find anyway to change the width of my scrollbar, no matter it is firefox, chrome or File Manager.
I tried to search google with "Linux ...
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Terminal resizes itself
I've recently installed Linux Mint 12 ("Lisa", i.e. not the KDE or Debian version) on a Zotac Mini-PC (Which has an AMD Video card. I'm not using the proprietary drivers as they don't work very ...
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Skype gtk style not working on debian squeeze 64
I have installed skype on my fresh squeeze 64bit system. It works fine except for the fact that the gtk theme isn't really working and the result is quite ugly:
How can I fix this?
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Gtk application (Gvim) rendering troubleshooting
When I switch from gvim to another application and then after some time switch back gvim window appears blank with cursor blinking in the middle. Sometimes toolbar and tabs look like a white space.
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Critical messages from gsm and gtk
After upgrading to Fedora 18, I am seeing the following critical messages on /var/log/messages whenever I log on to the computer:
CRITICAL: gsm_manager_set_phase: assertion \`GSM_IS_MANAGER<br>
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Gtk2 Themes under Gentoo's Gnome 3
I have made it to get a nice gnome shell environment running under my new gentoo. It's all fine, except there are a whole bunch of programs built against gtk2 (Chromium, Pidgin, Thunderbird, Firefox), ...
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Anacron job complains “Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display”
I'm trying to make a simple weekly Anacron job that backs up my computer if I click yes on the dialog. The script I wrote works fine if run manually, but when Anacron runs it, nothing happens and I ...
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Custom highlighting for gtksourceview not working
I am trying to write my own syntax highlighting for gtksourceview. If it's done it should highlight guitar chords in a text file. This is my unfinished file:
<?xml version="1.0" ...
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Leafpad ignoring gtkrc
On a fresh install of Debian Wheezy, I have Leafpad 0.8.18.1-3. Following instructions I created a .gtkrc-2.0 in my home folder and put the commands to change the text area colors. This had no effect.
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Unable to build pygobject with jhbuild
I was trying to build gtk+ and pygobject with jhbuild (on ubuntu 11.04), but it gives the following error while building gnome-doc-utils :
checking whether /opt/tarball-gnome2/bin/python version ...
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Xubuntu and gtk apps problem
After upgrade from Ubuntu 11.04 to Ubuntu 11.10 I got disappointed with "Unity". I wanted my old-style Gnome 2 back. That's why i purged "Unity" and installed Xfce4. But, now i have a problem: All my ...
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Can't round the corners of menus for gtk?
I've been searching everywhere on how to round the corner of the right-click context menus. Every other widget in GTK can have rounded corners but context menus for some reason. Why is it that this is ...
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Why do I have three different cursor themes at the same time?
I've installed LXappearance in order to change a mouse cursor theme.
After changing it, I seem to have three different mouse cursor themes active: for example, in Iceweasel I have the one I had ...
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How to make Compose work in GTK and Qt apps?
I used Gnome for a long time, but preferred vanilla X input method (xim) over the default GTK behaviour. I just set GTK_IM_MODULE and QT_IM_MODULE enviroment variables to xim, and didn't have any ...
