Questions tagged [themes]
Questions about "themes" which alter the look of the interface.
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Per-application xfwm theme
I want to run separate applications with different themes, the only solution for this that I could find was to use bash -c 'GTK2_RC_FILES=/path/to/gtkrc program'; however, I currently am using a XFCE4 ...
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gtk.css - How to add blurry background effect?
How to add blurry glass effect into the themes? (CSS3 supports gaussian blur with blur(1px); on many browsers)
When I drop the opacity, I'm getting a result like this:
But I want a blur effect like ...
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How to make Snap Chromium follow dark theme preference?
"Dark" and "GTK+" is selected in Ubuntu and Snap Chromium's Settings--Appearance. However Chromium's internal pages and websites are all using light theme, and only the title bar ...
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Is it possible to round the bottom corners of windows?
I was just wondering if it was possible to make the bottom corners of windows in Ubuntu rounded, like a mac has.
I did find this in the theme .xml file, but when I change it to true it doesn't change ...
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My Ubuntu 20.04 appearance settings are mostly grayed out
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 relatively smoothly. However, the dock is auto-hidden on the left side of the screen. When I go into the gnome control center settings and click Appearance I am ...
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Change Gnome popup notification text colour
How can I change the colour of the text below the title in popup notifications?
I have installed 20.04 (Gnome 3.36.1) with Adapta theme (specifically Adapta-Eta).
As you can see, the text below "...
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Why Chrome apps/windows do not follow GTK theme?
I use Linux but at a noob level. Usually Most of the time I use Ubuntu based distros.
My browser of choice is Google Chrome.
Services as Netflix, Tweetdeck, etc., I use them as "apps" opened in ...
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Title bar & Nautilus not theming in Unity in 16.04
Have seen numerous posts on this, but the only solution reported to work (adding a delay to the gnome settings daemon plugin) doesn't work.
Ubuntu 16.04 in a VMWare Workstation 12 VM.
Installed ...
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How can I remove the shadow at the top of the unity launcher?
I'm using a theme (based on Ambiance Grey) where the slight shadowing that is present at the very top of the Unity launcher is visually disturbing (see image below), and would like to remove it.
I ...
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How to change color of desktop "Selection Box" ? "Not Duplicate"
First Picture. The Desktop "Selection Box"
As You see in this picture, the color is brown same as my notification bubble, whereas the "selected" item color is the same with my theme. But notification ...
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Cursor themes only work for some applications
Trying some X11 cursors from gnome-look.org (Vienna, Protozoa, Leafm, Ecliz... ) in 14.04 Unity. Done update-alternatives and chmod 755.
Everything is ok, cursor themes are visible in unity-tweak, ...
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activate click through mode on conky
Is it possible to use Conky theme as click through on desktop ?. i can use Conky as transparent. but i can't directly access files on desktop because can't click through it. Any idea ?. thanks.
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title bar display glitch with ambiance and radiance window theme on background window
I use Ubuntu 12.04 with gnome-shell and default Ambiance window theme. There is a display glitch on title bar of background windows. It can be seen on the screenshot below.
The bug also occurs with ...
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Is there a theme with a short or transparent title bar?
Is there any theme, under any ubuntu desktop or window manager,
that has the feature illustrated in the image below, where the title bar doesn't occupy the whole width, but is instead as short as the ...
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Vanilla Gnome adwaita theme still uses brown folders
I followed this answer to install the default gnome theme on my Ubuntu install.
I have found though that adwaita-icon-theme-full still has the old brown adwaita icons.
Is there any way I can get the ...
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No spinner animation on boot screen (Ubuntu 20.04)
That's it. For some reason, my boot/shutdown screen doesn't show the spinning animation anymore.
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 with Bundgie.
I've tried almost everything, like:
sudo update-alternatives --...
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20.04: How do you view a theme's gtk.css (resource:///com/ubuntu/themes/Yaru-light/3.0/gtk.css)?
A theme's gtk.css (/usr/share/themes/Yaru-light/gtk-3.0/gtk.css) used to (18.04) contain the full css, now (20.04) it's just @import url("resource:///com/ubuntu/themes/Yaru-light/3.0/gtk.css");. So ...
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How to make Ubuntu feel more "integrated"?
This screenshot shows different apps being shown very different. I'm showing keepass2, keepassx, keepassxc, with the theme "Yaru-dark".
What do I need to do to make they all look "dark"?
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Gtk inspector force open Menus, Popups for inspection
I am trying to find the css classes for certain components like context menus, menus from top panel, etc.
I cant use GtkInspector because as soon as I select the Object Selector icon, those menus get ...
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Change color of active tab in xfce4-terminal
I'm using xfce4-terminal but I can barely notice which tab is active, so I'd like to change the background color of the active tab.
How do I go about doing that?
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Some theme elements broken after upgrade to 16.10?
After I upgraded to Ubuntu 16.10 today, I noticed that some UI elements changed and I wonder, wether this is wanted or not.
This image shows the problems:
The borders of text field in Firefox look ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 – theme does not load at boot up
I 'm having a problem with Ubuntu 16.04, on Asus UX303LA.
I currently use the Arc theme but sometimes, when I boot up, the theme does not load properly and the environment looks like the Ambience ...
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My system loads before the themes
I'm using ubuntu with a SSD. The only problem so far is that my system boots so fast that the themes aren't loaded.
I already tried the tip on the first answer of this topic (Desktop forgets theme?), ...
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Why does Xfce sometimes not properly load the theme (Appearance) on login?
Sometimes when I log in, Xfce (4.10, on Xubuntu-14.04) doesn't look right at all – the colour theme is an odd mixture of the correct settings (Xfce-darkness, in my case) and what's presumably ...
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Unity Theming Transparent Panel
I am making a theme for Ubuntu and just want to know 2 things (at the moment):
How can I set the transparency of the panel from the theme
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How can I set the height of the panel from within the ...
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burg working, but themes aren't
It worked before, but for some reason now I can't change the booting visual anymore.
When I run burg-emu on Terminal, this appears:
This is exactly how it looks like when I boot the PC. But I can't ...
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How can the cursor location bar graphic in, eg Gedit, be made wider than one pixel?
This question was asked before but not answered correctly, as the answer unhelpfully said to use overwrite mode to get a bigger cursor. Is there not a way to adjust the cursor in insert mode to ...
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how to configure kde window decorations to dark from ubuntu gnome?
When using KDE applications on ubuntu gnome, these apps don't follow gnome's dark theme, so they remain bright and ugly. However, When running systemsettings and switching between dark and light, I ...
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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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Ubuntu 22 Gnome dark theme window border
On the default Ubuntu Gnome light theme there is white border around window, and shade effect - it is easy to spot how large window is and where are its edges.
On the dark theme multiple overlapping ...
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Names of gnome-shell power-off/restart/logout dialogs
In the latest versions of gnome-shell the power-off/restart dialog has been split into separate dialogs (compare Ubuntu 20.04 with 21.10). Along with the log-out dialog they are all themed by the ...
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Progress bar colors in Nuxt Project aren't showing in terminal on Ubuntu 20.04
I'm really new with Ubuntu. Everything was going well, but now I have this little problem.
I can't see the progress bars colors (see image). Before they had a green color for the client and orange for ...
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Is it possible to use different color for a minimized window taskbar button? Any theme that does?
I use Fbpanel as my panel. It uses GTK2 for theming. I would like to know which windows are minimized by a quick glance at the taskbar.
Below, GIMP's icon background is green because GIMP has focus, ...
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Nautilus "Select File" window invalid characters (□□□) on some snap applications (Ubuntu 20.04 Gnome)
Some applications downloaded from the Snap store, appear like this when I select to open a file. Other applications, such as Chromium, don't. This screenshot, in particular, is from Discord.
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Ubuntu 20.04 theme with higher contrast title bar for active vs background window
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) with Cinnamon desktop.
The problem I've got is that it's hard to tell which window is active and which is in the background.
I'm running Adwaita theme for Controls ...
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[ubuntu 18.04 a briefly showed screen right after log-in
I've recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on my laptop and managed to customize themes for various components.
Not saying it's bad but there are so many purple screens coming up all along the booting ...
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Is Inkscape meant to look like Windows XP on 19.04?
When I upgraded Ubuntu from 18.04 to 19.04, Inkscape suddenly looked like this:
which isn't how it looked before.
If it isn't meant to look like that, any idea how can I fix it?
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Ubuntu 18.04 cursor larger after suspend resume
I have had this issue since I bought the laptop. It's the Dell XPS 13 9380 on Ubuntu 18.04.
I close the lid and it goes into suspend mode. I then open to see the mouse is twice as large as before. I ...
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GTK themes not displaying correctly
Had to reinstall gdm3 and gnome-shell-common and now my GTK themes are not displaying correctly. Using Ubuntu 19.04
Example:
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Is there a command to generate gnome themes?
I would like to tweak Gnome theme elements like the background in the lock screen.
I see that one can go and edit the file /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/ubuntu.css manually for instance. I notice at ...
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Opening applications with random theme
I'm using Canvas GTK theme and have all colors of that theme on my system.
I want to use one of those Canvas themes randomly each time I open an application.
I know I can use env GTK_THEME to open ...
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Blank icons after upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 on Unity
This happened right after upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 on my father's PC from Ubuntu 16.04.
Changing the icon pack or the GTK theme does not work. The only way I get to see the icons again is by ...
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override css in a gnome shell extension with a shell theme
Can css in a gnome-shell-extension be overridden by css in a shell theme?
E.g. "Dash to Panel" has the following lines in its stylesheet.css:
#dashtopanelScrollview .app-well-app:hover .overview-icon,...
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How do I set different themes for GTK+2 and GTK+3?
I rather like the Azure GTK+3 theme, unfortunately it doesn't play nice with GTK+2 applications like Scilab (which I am running from the binary tarball provided at scilab.org, not the Scilab package ...
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Plymouth theme works during shut down, but not during boot
I have installed Aurora-Penguinis-2 following these instructions. I changed /lib/plymouth to /usr/share/plymouth
The theme loads at shutdown, but only blank screen appears at startup, then lightDM ...
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Modifying gnome-shell.css
I am running Ubuntu 17.10 and I am trying to personalize the Gnome Shell theme by modifying /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css but have been finding it very slow going. There does not ...
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Change color scheme for inactive list selection in LibreOffice on Kubuntu
To illustrate the problem, I use LibreOffice Writer as an example, although similar thing happens in other LibreOffice applications too. I'm not sure if this problem is isolated to LibreOffice only.
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Pidgin GUI uses "dark theme": not usable
Since I installed Gnome pidgin is using a color palette that is not readable. It uses dark text over dark background or light color text over light color background.
In Gnome, in general, the "dark ...
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Change Color of Gnome Terminal Open Tab bar in 16.04
Aloha - I followed the instructions of the accepted answer here
However, it doesn't work for me on 16.04. Not sure if its that creating the gtk.css file method doesn't work on 16.04 or if I am just ...
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Fonts eventually go black in gnome-3 shell
I can't seem to find any information or similar reports on the net, it's an issue that's quite hard to search for. I'm not even sure how to put what is happening into keywords that google would get ...
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