Questions tagged [gtk]
Questions about the GTK+ graphical user interface toolkit. Used by desktops such as Cinnamon, GNOME, XFCE, Budgie, Mate, and Unity.
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Nautilus GTK Themes / Nordic
I am new, I think I've tried everything possible but there is no way Nautilus, Settings should look like this (in my oppinion).
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Can running gtk app in kde via flatpak cause issues in KDE?
I am very new to linux so this is probably a silly question. I am getting used to the various desktop environments, and different frameworks around linux.
I am using KDE (on kubuntu) and installing an ...
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How can I customize the GTK desktop title bar?
How can I customize the GTK title bar for the Gnome/Unity desktop, in Ubuntu 22.04?
I have several VMs running under VirtualBox, all in fullscreen mode (which shouldn't be significant) and I want to ...
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QT Applications Not Adhering to GTK Theme After Upgrading to Ubuntu 23.10
Hello Ubuntu community,
I recently upgraded my system from Ubuntu 22.04 to 23.10 and encountered an issue with QT applications. Despite installing Kvantum and attempting to change the theme, these ...
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How to prevent GTK inspector from opening when opening an app from the terminal?
Very often, when I open an app through the terminal, the GTK inspector also gets opened for that app. Firefox doesn't seem to and VS Code usually closes it on its own. But otherwise, running ~$ vlc or ...
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Meaning of GTK critical stderr message
Only slightly worried about this, but I don't like the word critical.I uninstalled Evolution and reinstalled it, got it to work by removing 4 files in the /.conf folder. Everything is working fine but ...
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GTK2 applications broken after upgrade to 22.04
After I upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 the rendering of GTK2 applications (e.g. GIMP & Chromium) is totally broken. GTK3 applications on the other hand are working fine.
This is gtk-demofrom gtk2.0-...
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How to install gtk-recordmydesktop?
I've upgraded Linux to the newest version recently, and re-installed recordmydesktop, but I want to install gtk-recordmydesktop, the one that allows you to pause it and select what part of the screen ...
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gnuradio-companion will not run due to gtk_init error
My issue is very similar to this issue, however I am running gnuradio on Ubuntu local to my windows machine, rather than docker. When I enter the command gnuradio-companion &, I get the following ...
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Changing GTK Theme From Within GTK Application
I have an application written in GTK and I was just playing around with theme changes via GTK Inspector. I even explored other themes available from GitHub. Is it possible to give an end user of my ...
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Warnings when saving a figure with `matplotlib`
I have a simple matplotlib script:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1, 2], [1, 2], c="b")
plt.savefig("./fig.png")
When I run the script, the image is saved okay, but I ...
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Identify cflag, libs for a make
I'm trying to build a package from sourceforge that made use of GTK2+. I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 which has GTK4 installed. I've changed the references to GTK2+ to GTK4. But I cannot figure out what ...
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Problems with libgtk-3-dev and libgtk-4-dev
I recently installed the libgtk-3-dev/libgtk-4-dev apt packages on my machine.
When using the <gtk/gtk.h> header in my C code and compiling, GCC throws an error saying that it cannot find the ...
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Installing libgkt-4-dev on Ubuntu 23.10 results in libxfixes3 version mismatch
I'm trying to learn gtk4 application development, but even after a bunch of various attempts to fix it, sudo apt install libgtk-4-dev still returns the following output:
Reading package lists... Done
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Customize ".config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css" file based on individual applications
Is it possible either to have different gtk.css files to be loaded when different applications launches (e.g. Gedit, Gnome-terminal, Nautilus, etc.), or have specific tags in the file .config/gtk-3.0/...
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How can I let the file date be formatted according to ISO 8601 also in load/store dialogues
I am using Xubuntu 22.04. I have added a line
alias date='date -Iseconds'
to /etc/bash.bashrc in order to let file dates be formatted according to ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss)
Further I have ...
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How to activate/install scrollbar steppers 22.04
Scrollbars used to have steppers that could be enabled with widget.non-native-theme.gtk.scrollbar.allow-buttons True in the appropriate file. I cannot find any way to do this in 22.04 . I can ...
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Why is KDE's GTK theme overriding Microsoft edge's theme?
I am currently dual booting windows 11 and kubuntu and the problem arises in kubuntu.
If you go into the appearance tab of ms edge settings. You can see 3 options: GTK, Light and Dark. I am using a ...
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Dark theme in applications not consistent with chosen custom theme - Ubuntu 22.04
So I like to use a custom theme. But I also like to switch between light and dark themes depending on the room illumination level to preserve my eyes. So I use "Materia-dark-compact" for the ...
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Web Browser and Ubuntu Software not picking up gtk theme
I am using Ubuntu 22.04.3, and I tried to switch the default theme to "this theme".
Other than my web browser and the Ubuntu Software application it seems to be quite consistent elsewhere. ...
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Firefox and other non-gtk applications do not adopt gtk theme
I applied a GTK 3.20 theme by EliverLara github repo following all the instructions. The theme was applied, but Firefox, and probably other non-GTK apps, do not adopt this theme.
EliverLara also has ...
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GTK bindings for Fortran
Have seen that GTK has binding for different language preferences - C, C++, Python.
Does it have bindings for Fortran though ? Have come across gtk-fortran library, but do not know whether it is part ...
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App status icon not showing on 20.04
I have a test app built on Ubuntu 22.04 using gtk3 that basically does this to create a status icon with an attached menu:
#include <gtk/gtk.h>
//#include <glib/glib.h>
static void ...
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How to install gtkesc,gtklev and gtk4dg?
I want to install rw05 in my ubuntu. In the readme file they are recommending this packages over other version. Is there any way to find them or to compile them?
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Changing font styles of lightdm-gtk-greeter
I can change my font using the following option in lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf:
font-name = ...
But I'm not sure how to change the size or weight. I tried putting the following CSS in my GTK theme:
#...
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Ubuntu 23.04 MySQL Workbench CTD - Gtk-CRITICAL Errors
System Information
Operating System: Kubuntu 23.04
GTK 3.24.37-1ubuntu1
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.104.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 6.2.0-26-generic (64-bit)
Graphics ...
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Icons not loading for visualboyadvance-m in kubuntu
Trying to run visualboyadvance-m on kubuntu (KDE) which starts however all the icons for the settings do not show, all the letters just show as squares, when running it from the terminal I get the ...
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Some XWayland apps become quickly unusable after installing to Ubuntu 23.04
I recently installed Ubuntu 23.04 from scratch, using GNOME Shell. I still use some ~GTK2~ Xwayland apps (e.g. Synaptic and Audacity / Tenacity ~via wx~).
The behavior they present is quite strange. ...
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Ubuntu 23.04 fixing thick window title bar on gtk.css won't work
I used xorg than Wayland on Ubuntu 23.04
Does anyone know why editing the .config/gtk3.0/gtk.css does not work and will not affect nautilus, VSCode and other app title bar/headerbar thickness on 23.04?...
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Not loading module "atk-bridge": The functionality is provided by GTK natively. Please try to not load it
I keep getting this message when running proxychains and my proxies arent even connected when the browser launches. I am using Ubuntu 22.04. The command below did not work and I have updated, there ...
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Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gail", "atk-bridge", "canberra-gtk-module", Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf", line 5: [duplicate]
I have all these libraries installed:
fontconfig is already the newest version (2.13.1-4.2ubuntu5).
fontconfig-config is already the newest version (2.13.1-4.2ubuntu5).
libatk-bridge2.0-0 is already ...
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Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gail", "atk-bridge", "canberra-gtk-module"
I am trying to vessel with this command vessel sources and I am getting the following errors.
I installed these packeges:
sudo apt-get install libatk-adaptor:i386
sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-...
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How to listen to global application window focused event in Gnome Shell
I want to have a global event listener for application window-focused events, for Gnome Shell/GTk/GObject.
For Example:
global.stage.connect("window-focused", (app) => log(app.get_id()))
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Nautilus auto refresh issue
After update to last version of Ubuntu, Nautilus not work correct. It not automatically refresh, if I delete or replace file. It need press CTRL+R to correct display. On video I press „delete“ and ...
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Identical `.desktop` files in different directories
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (GNOME 42.5) and messing around with application icons. I noticed that there are some almost identical .desktop files in different files. For example, file bluetooth-sendto....
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How to install a GTK theme?
newbie here. I'll keep it short.
I've been trying to install this GTK theme
https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1436585but
But it won't let me choose it no matter how much I tried. I've done the following:
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How change color of titlebar buttons on inactive windows using css?
So I wrote my own gtk.css in ~/.config/gtk-3.0 to override the installed theme, But now i want to change the color of buttons in inactive windows.
button.titlebutton {
min-height: 16px;
min-width: ...
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Need to update GLib library but the current version is assumed as the newest (it's not)
So I tried creating my first GTK 4 program using example-0.c using https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/getting_started.html#basics guide, but I got the later-described error regarding ...
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How does Firefox detect light/dark theme change on KDE systems?
I have a few cron jobs which switch between light and dark themes automatically on my KDE system (for those interested, there's the lookandfeeltool where I simply switch between global light and dark ...
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Ubuntu-frame on Ubuntu Server
I installed ubuntu-frame on Ubuntu server, but when I tried to run a gtk GUI app (gnome-mastermind) then I got this error:
gtk cannot open display:
I followed these tutorials:
https://discourse....
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Ubuntu 23.04: Weird white windows on some applications (GTK4)
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 23.04 and have noticed that some applications are displaying a white border instead of applying the system theme. I suspect this may be related to the update to GTK4.
I ...
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Make Firefox's "System theme" darker
I managed to get the close button of Firefox to look like my Ubuntu's (22.04) Yaru-dark. However, it's a bit lighter than the system's dark theme (especially the toolbar). Would there be a way to ...
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Inconsistent dark theme for GTK apps on 23.04
I have encountered the following issue with using Flatpak apps on Ubuntu 23.04.
Basically, some (parts of) programs will pick up the dark mode I have selected in the settings, while others will not.
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Why won't Chromium use dark mode?
I have totally ran out of ideas as to why Chrome/Firefox both won't use my GTK theme which is set to dark. I've been messing around with trying to add --force-dark-mode --enable-features=WebUIDarkMode ...
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How to enable accessibility for GTK applications running as root?
I have a graphical application on Ubuntu 20.04 that is run with pkexec to properly get necessary root access. Many users will need the on-screen keyboard for this app, however I noticed that GTK apps ...
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Gnome on-screen keyboard not working with GTK app [20.04]
After upgrading from 18.04 to 20.04 the OSK stopped displaying for focused entries in my GTK Desktop app. It still works fine for other GTK apps like firefox, but I'm not sure where to look for a ...
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Preview Pane on ubuntu (jammy) in Nautilus
I like the feature in Windows (Preview pane) but I want this feature in Ubuntu (jammy) in Nautilus File Manager too.
If there is any plugin (Kindly share that).
Anything through which I can enable the ...
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When launching firefox, get error Not loading module "atk-bridge"
If I run firefox in terminal then firefox works just fine, but I get the error message:
Gtk-Message: 10:54:24.330: Not loading module "atk-bridge": The functionality is provided by GTK ...
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google-chrome and chromium file picker don't pick the correct gtk theme
I still wonder why this happens and does anyone have managed to find any workarounds for this issue. It's very annoying.
File picker or save dialog on google-chrome (111.0.5563.146) and chromium (111....
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will gtk4 apps run on ubuntu20.04
I think Ubuntu22.04 is shipped with gtk4. But I could not find information about compatibility of gtk3/gtk4.
Does a gtk4 app run on a older OS that ships with gtk3? Does a gtk3 app run on Ubuntu22.04 ...
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