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Applications look ugly when using third-party "Arc OSX themes"
You have installed a theme which generally only applies to applications which use GTK+ 3, for example all default apps in elementary.
There are other toolkits used by developers for Linux apps where ...
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GTK theming in snap apps
Snaps don't always work with the system stylesheet. An easy alternative is to use Flatpak apps from Flathub when apps exist in both places, because Flatpak has a mechanism to work with the elementary ...
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Update Gtk+ on Loki?
You will get problems for sure. It is strongly adviced to use the GTK version the system is build for.
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Using Granite with a different language besides Vala
Granite is written in Vala, so it provides a C API which you can use from C++. Using it should be fairly straightforward; just #include <granite.h> in your code, and build with something like
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I want to add the listbox scroll fade effect in my app - how?
The most common way a designer can do this is by applying on an upper layer a semitransparent png image or gradient with fading transparency from 1 to 0 and white color. Another option is a gtk box ...
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Update Gtk+ on Loki?
Don't try to upgrade it, you just will end with a messed up system, all the versions if gtk lost compatibility from one version to another (you can see this in the themes for example, every gtk theme ...
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GTK theming in snap apps
Snaps are what is called a "sandboxed" or "confined" package format. This means the amount of access that these apps have to your system is very limited. One of those limitations is that Snaps don't ...
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Elementary app feasibility: modify any current text input
All feature requests must be written to the proper GitHub page, they do not belong here.
I believe that in your case gala is a good starting point.
https://github.com/elementary/gala
Good luck
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Can't make Gtk.TextView () fill whole parent Gtk.Box
A lovely application you built here, I particularly like the native indicator!
Looking into your Application.css:
.command_wrapper {
background-color: #fdf6e3;
border-radius: 3px;
...
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I don't know what the problem is, but some apps look weird like this [SOLVED]
The problem of the double window I don't understand well the reason why it happens, but it is solved by editing the direct access to the application.
This command must be included:
GTK_CSD=0
I will ...
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Applications look ugly when using third-party "Arc OSX themes"
Try installing gtk2-engines-pixbuf and moving the Ark-OSX folder to /usr/share/themes if it isn’t saved there yet, that fixed it for me.
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StatusIcon not showing/working
GtkStatusIcon is deprecated since GTK 3.14. It is more for Windows and KDE and not supported on elementary OS or Gnome 3.
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Applications look ugly when using third-party "Arc OSX themes"
According to the README.md of the arc theme you need to also install the gtk2-engines-murrine package.
https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme
Quote:
For the theme to function properly, install the ...
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Why doesn't `env GTK_THEME=Adwaita` work in .desktop files?
tl;dr: comment out the line that starts with DBusActivatable in the .desktop file.
This section of the always-reliable Arch wiki article for desktop entries was clutch:
Modify command line arguments
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StackSIdebar is not visible
You are adding the stack to the window:
https://github.com/Suzie97/Project_X97/blob/4506489bbe5d79343728e6259d614dacc4b2036d/Project_X97/src/Window.vala#L64
You are then constructing an object called ...
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GTK 3.22 migration of older gtk.css -> Black Margin on elementaryOS apps
The .window-frame tweak does not work anymore on recent versions of GTK3 due to massive CSS overhaul. Here is a patch that seems to effectively disable these black borders on GTK3 (tested on version 3....
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How do I turn off the windows gradient? [SOLVED]
I made it to work. In gtk-widgets.css and gtk-widgets-dark.css I added/edited a .tilebar element with background-image: linear-gradient() property. As arguments I set white color hex in white-version ...
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Code don't work
You are showing all the window objects and then adding the button afterwards. Try:
main_window.add (button_hello);
main_window.show_all();
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mate-system-monitor won't show in Application menus, plus errors when launched in terminal
You need to realize that when you choose to install ElementaryOS, you choose Wingpanel+Plank+Gala and NOT Mate, not even Unity
when you read inside the file
/usr/share/applications/mate-system-...
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Trying to replicate this macOS dark sierra theme
How about this? Elementary OSX
Just follow instructions and copy folders to their respective places. It looks gorgeous. Icons, GTK and Plank themes.
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Linked style doesn't work for buttons
The Gtk.HeaderBar provides special styling for Gtk.Button's so that they look good inside it.
The solution:
In your case the solution is easy: remove the image-button style class from the ...
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Suspend Problem (?)
I had this problem up until today, when i installed the latest OS update (the one with the new AppCenter), i think it had an update to the nvidia driver.
Afterwards the behavior stabilized and ...
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Swift/GTK Bindings
There are currently no plans from elementary to officially support Swift. However, apps submitted to AppCenter are more than welcome to use Swift or any other language so long as they are GTK3 apps. ...
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Pantheon Files Side Panel CSS
In file gtk.css, change this:
MarlinViewWindow .source-list.sidebar.view {
background-color: white; }
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Pantheon Files Side Panel CSS
In the source code file src/View/Sidebar.vala (cf. apt-get source pantheon-files) it seems that the sidebar and source-list classes are applied to the sidebar.
In /usr/share/themes/elementary/gtk-3.0/...
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GTK Themes Doesn't Work Well on Loki
Not all themes are going to display well in elementary, particularly in apps that have client side decorations like those native to elementary - files, maya, epiphany, etc.
You going through the ...
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GTK Themes Doesn't Work Well on Loki
Maybe you need to put the theme folder in home/.local/share/themes.
Or maybe that theme doesn't support Pantheon DE.
And i recomend you to use elmentary tweaks for manage your desktop theme and some ...
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GTK theming in snap apps
use flatpak and run the bellow command, it will allow flatpak apps to use your theme, no idea why canonical doesn't expose the theme and icon folders already, snaps are doa just because of the theming,...
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Cumulus not working on elementary os loki
I'm not sure how you installed it, but it looks like you are missing the python-gobject package which is used by Python to interact with GTK.
You can install it with sudo apt install python-gobject.
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Can't find gtk header file for vala-code compilation
Just had the same issue on elementary OS Hera. I've fixed it by adding this line to my .bashrc:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig:$...
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