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Programs look ugly with ClearLooks-Phenix theme, how to fix?

Some programs on Firefox seem to become unthemed when I use ClearLooks-Phenix on Ubuntu 13.04. This didn't happen on 12.04, and it seemed to be triggered by some update. What could have caused it?
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Difference between “Gtk+ theme” and “Current theme” entries in Gnome Tweak Tool

As you can see below, Adwaita is selected both as the Gtk+ theme, and the Current theme. What is the difference? Also, some themes are available as "current" and others as Gtk+ ones. Also, why do ...
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Scrollbar events in GTK+

I am developing an SWT application. In that I am trying to listen the mouse events on scrollbars like page up,page down,arrow up,arrow down and dragging thumb. But a bug was filed in SWT(See here ...
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How can I change GTK3 themes from XFCE or Openbox?

Running Ubuntu 12.10, the problem I'm having is that when running XFCE or Openbox as my desktop I cannot seem to switch the gtk theme away from the default Ambiance. I've tried gtk-theme-switch, ...
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What does “Gtk-ERROR **: GTK+ 2.x symbols detected.” mean?

When starting gparted, it crashes with the error: Gtk-ERROR **: GTK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported I already opened LP bug #1094354 for this. ...
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Ugly right-click menu and menubar in some applications

After installing some packages (unfortunately I can't remember which ones) and installing some GTK3 themes (Faience / Faenza), my terminal's menubar and the right-click menu (in some contexts) started ...
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Disable css warnings

Everytime I open a gtk application it outputs css warnings (lack of units assuming px etc). Can I disable this dreadful verbosity? example: $ gedit (gedit:19558): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing ...
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I can't compile a C source file written with VIM gtk libraries included.Probably I haven't configured well gtk+ [duplicate]

I installed gtk+,but I can't make use of the gtk libraries (include files) when I write a C source file using VI in terminal and compile it with the command that I mention above. ...
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How to update gtk-3.4 themes to the new gtk-3.6

Is it too complicated to achieve? if it's not could you tell me how, please. I have some basic knowledge about gtk and css. Also, is this going to continue happening each time gnome releases a new ...
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How to use a different gtk (gtk3) theme for some applications?

I want to use a custom theme for Nautilus and for some other applications but I want to keep the generic theme for the rest of the applications and system. I know it can be done in gtk2. For ...
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Fade out Label / Button / Status Bar with GTK

What is the easiest way to fade out and fade in elements in Python / GTK 3? Coming from webdevelopment, my initial take on this problem was to call c = widget.get_style_context(), ...
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GTK Recent Chooser Menu callback not working

I am currently very puzzled why something so simple fails so hard: This is the source code for a very very simple recent chooser menu, but it fails. My output is this: Display name: ...
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GUI is Sluggish

GTK3 seems sluggish in general on my system; controls seem to take 1/4 to 1/8 second to respond. This happens with both Unity (using the Ambiance theme) and Gnome Shell (with Adwaita). All controls ...
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Load and show an image from the web in Python with Gtk 3?

I'm writing an app on Ubuntu 12.04 with Python and GTK 3. The problem I have is that I can't figure out how I should do to show a Gtk.Image in my app with an image file from the web. This is as far ...
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Black areas with default (gray) theme in GTK3 based applications

I use Ubuntu 12.04 with the Blackbox window manager and the default (gray) GTK theme. With some GTK 3 applications, like Gedit, Disk utility and Evince I see black areas which should be gray and these ...
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KEY.is_pressed() in gi.repository.Gdk?

I was wondering if anyone knew how to detect if a key is currently pressed with either Gtk or Gdk and python? I don't want to use the key-pressed or key-released event for this scenario, but rather ...
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Hide window title in gnome-shell using mutter, gdk, wnck or gtk

I'm after a way to: get list of all application windows currently open, as a Gdk or Gtk window remove window decorations for selected windows (maximised in my case). I'd like to do this using ...
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Will Glade 3.12 work for Ubuntu 11.10 using Unity…no Gnome 3

I'm in the process of learning 'Quickly' and noticed that it only has 'Glade 3.8.0' and I like to keep all my apps fully up to date. I noticed however on the gnome.org site it said that 'Glade 3.12' ...
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Forcing an application to use gtk 3 instead of gtk 2

Is there anyway to force an application to use gtk3+ instead of gtk2+ ?
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How do I get same scrollbar style for gtk-2.0 and gtk-3.0 apps?

Sorry for my English mistakes, I'm Spanish. I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 in a tablet. I've removed overlay-scrollbars and I have increased the scrollbars size to use them with fingers. In ...
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How do I fix the problems I'm having with Xfce and Xubuntu?

I booted into a Xubuntu session and when the splash disappeared it left behind artifacts on the desktop. I went into Desktop to change the background but it stayed completely gray. Not only that, ...
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Can gtk2 themes be converted to gtk3 themes?

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?
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Unable to start update-manager | software center [closed]

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 26, in <module> from gi.repository import Gtk File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/importer.py", line 76, in ...