Questions tagged [gtk]
GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) is a cross-platform framework for creating graphical user interfaces.
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Gnome Totem never runs
totem never runs, and I run into this problem when I open it
~$ totem
Gdk-Message: 10:40:58.480: Error 71 (Protocol error) dispatching to Wayland display.
I still have this problem from first day of ...
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GTK App Cannot Launch - settings schema 'o contain a key named 'paned-listview-width'
I've installed Lollypop through my package manager, and I get an error upon running it:
(lollypop:8889): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: 07:48:52.962: Settings schema 'org.gnome.Lollypop' does not
contain a key ...
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close gnome-terminal window after launching gnome-session-quit
when I launch gnome-session-quit with gnome-terminal:
gnome-terminal -e 'gnome-session-quit --power-off &'
It launches together with gnome-terminal like this:
& puts it into background ...
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How does RDP client on Linux work, such as widgets rendering?
I am curious how the widget rendering is implemented in a Linux RDP client, such as Remmina, on a high level. If RDP protocol transmit semantics as much as possible rather than bitmaps, then the ...
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How to scale gtk application with fraction number
So, on Linux I have steam that has a very small GUI.
And I find out that I can make it bigger using GTK_SCALE env variable. Like this:
GTK_SCALE=2 steam
But 2 is to big, I would prefer to have 1.5, ...
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How to make Firefox involve gtk settings at xdg-open action?
My xreader.dekstop file:
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=xreader
Name=xreader
Comment=comment
Icon=/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/32x32/apps/...
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Traditional scrollbars in GTK2 applications
To enable traditional scrollbars with scroll buttons in GTK3 applications I have added the file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css with the content
scrollbar {
-GtkScrollbar-has-backward-stepper: true;
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Evince: Unable to init server: Could not Connect: Connection refused
When running
$ evince a.pdf
I receive the following error message.
No protocol specified
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
Cannot parse arguments: Cannot open display:
I ...
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Why can't I type a gĢ the same way I type ñ?
My language, Guarani, uses GĢ/gĢ to denote the nasalized velar approximant. I thought I'd be able to type it by combining a dead tilde with g, but this does not work. Why doesn't it, and how can I fix ...
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Is it possible to set different brightness for different attached screens through redshift / redshift-gtk in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?
I have been using redshift / redshift-gtk to adjust the color temperature of my screen in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS in my Dell XPS 15 (In Dell XPS, there is a common problem with brightness in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS....
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How to make the toolbar and tabs-bar of qterminal dark?
It looks ugly. How can i fix it.Terminal has good dark style.
Also , ubuntu regular font is not available in preferences of terminal but its installed. Any idea how to fix qterminal along with this?
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Is it possible to use GDK to get the image/pixel data of any arbitrary X11 window using the window's name?
Summary
I am writing a script (in Python 3.X) to do image detection on a number of different GUI's in Linux. Can GDK be used to get a pixel buffer of any X11 window? If so, how? I am currently using ...
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How to reveal a GUI password hidden bellow asterisks or bullets? [closed]
On MS Windows we can une Asterisk logger, Bullets password view, other tools, sandboy revelation, showpw or many other tools that can trace/change the GUI of an app...
How can we achieve the same on ...
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Gtk apps slow if not root
Some of my Gtk apps (Virt-Manager, Nautilus & Easytag) are really slow to start when I start them as a normal user. However when they are started as root, they start instantly. How can I fix that?
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GUI program runs from terminal but not from program launcher
I have a nice GUI program which runs fine if I start it from terminal but does not start at all if I run it from a non-terminal program launcher like dmenu or gmrun. Everytime I do so, nothing ...
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xfce app previous and back arrow button is broken
problem is that(The control bar in parole)
and
that(Thunar)
another xfce gui apps have same problem
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How can I shrink the title bar size *without* changing the system files but rather the theme files?
How can I tweak a theme to shrink the title bar? Choosing different themes changes the size of the title bar so I know it's something in the theme I can tweak to change the Title Bar size. IDK why ...
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How to focus program window instead of spawning new one if it's already open
I am currently using Linux Mint 19.03 Cinnamon.
Issue
I launch gnome-calculator with Cal shortcut button and when I press that button, new gnome-calculator window is spawned. I don't want this ...
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KDE Plasma Colors are not changing correctly
I installed KDE Plasma Version 5.12.9 on Linux Mint 19.3
It's working fine excpet the colors
After a few problems with themes I managed to get them working, but not all colors are correct.
The System ...
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GTK 3.22 migration of older gtk.css
I have a legacy gtk.css that was working fine on Ubuntu Xenial, I've just upgraded to Bionic (2018) and the same code now is not working anymore:
$ cat .config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
.window-frame {
box-...
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How to refresh a gtk gui?
After changing Xft.dpi: 96 to Xft.dpi: 192 in ~/.Xresources I run xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources to enjoy a readable font size in Firefox on a 4K Monitor. However, I must kill and restart Firefox to do so. ...
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Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 Error: Unable to initialize GTK+, is DISPLAY set properly?
I'm having this problem on my Debian box (Buster). Whenever I run the command
sudo ./FreeFileSync
I get the following error:
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key10:24:17: Error: Unable to initialize GTK+,...
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Inconsistent theme in Pop OS
I'm currently using Gnome PopOS 19.10 on a fairly recent machine Acer Swift 3 SF315-41-R03D, and I've been using Linux for around a year.
After I had a clean install of PopOS, I updated everything ...
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windows management software under ubuntu
i'm here o linux but i want o know if is possible to controll two windows of two aplications (softwares) with the same master windows.
Example, i want o run [gedit] and [terminal] like one single ...
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How can I quickly navigate in the GTK file chooser?
One of the reasons why I sometimes envy Windows users is that under Windows, most applications use the native file chooser, which is quite usable.
Under Linux, this depends on the toolkit. For Qt/KDE ...
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How to apply css changes to Nautilus?
I used the GTK+ Inspector to figure out a couple lines of css to hide some separators/borders in Nautilus. This image shows Nautilus before the css is applied:
When I apply this css within the ...
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Is it possible to assign two keyboard shortcuts to gtk_accel_path in Thunar?
I'd like to assign two keyboard shortcuts (Paste and <Primary>+v) to a certain action in Thunar:
The configuration in ~/.config/Thunar/accels.scm looks like this:
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions&...
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Switching from GNOME to KDE
I am here to ask you for an help:
since I have been using Linux (more than 10 years ago now...) I used to use GNOME, starting from 2.2x until latest 3.34 with gnome-shell and I always loved it.
But ...
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Keyboard shortcuts with dedicated keyboard buttons inside Xfce
I'm using a Microsoft Office keyboard, which has dedicated buttons for Cut, Copy & Paste.
I was able to choose that model inside the keyboard settings GUI of Xfce, which creates matching XF86Cut, ...
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How to install and run Evince from tar.gz
I am trying to build Evince so that I can alter slightly (without needing new dependencies).
I don't want it to run in a sandbox; I want it to run with other applications on my system (I had a pretty ...
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Resize titlebar buttons on GTK
I am trying to resize the close, minimize, maximize buttons. I do it like this:
.titlebar.default-decoration button.titlebutton {
min-height: 36px;
min-width: 36px;
-gtk-icon-transform: scale(1....
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Centos8, run gtk program under sudo privileges: cannot open display: :0
I'm currently struggling when trying to run bleachbit under root privileges on CentOS 8.
Using my non-sudo user, there is no problem. When i try to run it as sudo, i get the following error:
(...
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Cedilla does not work under Softmaker Office
Infos here Cedilla works in all other apps but SoftMaker office where it delivers a Ä. What might I be missing? This might be some QT/GTK issue but I'm not sure about how to fix.
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Error spam from gedit when launched from command line
I have gedit set as my git editor, and it works quite well for me. When I do git commit, gedit pops up with the commit info and I can enter my commit message, Ctrl+S, Ctrl+Q and git will proceed as ...
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Debugging a mate terminal session which won't start
I'm configuring the Windows Subsystem for Linux on my company-issued laptop (windows 10). Things were going nicely until I tried to get MATE Terminal working. On my devbox in the office, I run ...
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GTK FileChooser causes crashes in several programs
I have repeatedly encountered a problem with several programs that use open/save file dialogues.
Upon initiating these by trying to open or to save a file, the program freezes for about 10 seconds ...
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firefox gtk-dialog “save as” offers a file name without extension
how to return the file extension (html for example) to the default file name?
i am using slackware 14.2
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Capture or calibrate icons name and path of the running app window body
Based on the question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5810399/how-to-get-icon-icons-path-of-running-app-in-linux-windows, but it works only on Windows. The package pygtk is not supported on Linux. ...
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Default GTK printer is LPR rather than using the CUPS default
I set the default printer in the cups configuration website (and it says that the selected printer is the default), but the GTK printer dialog always select "Print to LPR" as the default instead of ...
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How do I remap a set of hotkeys only when a certain window is in focus?
Is there a way to remap keys on the keyboard to an alternative configuration on a window-by-window basis?
I don't know how it works on Linux but on Windows I can detect a window by its title and ...
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How to get traditional scrollbars in GTK 2 and 3 apps in Debian 10?
I am using XFce4 on Debian 10.
When opening GTK 2 apps, the scroll bars appear normal, with a large bar and arrows at the top and bottom.
When opening GTK 3 apps, the scroll bars are thin, difficult ...
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Origins of the “save changes” modal dialog's use of “close without saving”, its lack of keyboard accelerators, and how to interact with these dialogs
Coming from Windows, I am very accustomed to the very common "save changes" modal dialog providing a "yes/no/cancel" option with "Y" and "N" being provided as keyboard accelerators (shortcut keys).
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Does mixing up GTK and Qt applications slow down the machine?
Usually it is recommended to either use GTK or Qt apps in the operating system, but not mixing them both together.
Example:
When using KDE it seems to be obvious to use KMail (Qt) instead of ...
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How to use GTK_DEBUG to MATE Caja?
I'm working on a GTK3 theme and I use GTK_DEBUG=interactive to test changes in the CSS.
I start an application with the gtk inspector attached, I launch it with:
$ GTK_DEBUG=interactive <name>
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On installing driver for HP Laserjet Pro M15a
Does anyone know how to install driver for HP Laserjet Pro M15a for Ubuntu 19.04? I tried
./hplip-3.19.6.run
Creating directory hplip-3.19.6
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ...
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How to install ocx file to wine
I am using Mac OS 10.14.5, and I am trying to run an exe file. So I did brew install wine. Then, using wine to run the program yields the following error:
0009:fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests ...
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How to compile from sources Breeze for GTK theme on Debian 9?
So, I can't install 'Breeze for GTK' theme on Debian 9. I've downloaded the files from official git page and when I move the files on ./themes folder system no read them.
And when execute ./...
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How to override GTK style setting from kde-config-gtk-style for one specific app?
I am quite happy, how my kde on debian handles the theming for gtk apps like firefox or thunderbird. I usually use the breeze-dark or adwaita-dark themes.
However, I use one application (moneyplex) ...
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Can I mark files as recently-used from the command line?
GTK applications mark files as recently used by adding them to the XML in ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel, but I am frequently working with files from terminal-driven applications like latex, and ...
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Where can I find gtkmm4 sources?
I need to install gtkmm4 where do I find its sources. I am using archlinux.
