Questions tagged [gtk]
gtk+ stands for Gimp ToolKit, a widget toolkit for GUI applications. Gnome uses gtk+ extensively.
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How to make sure dconf (or gsettings) and <guix>/dconf-editor use the same backend database
Disclaimer: I'm running Guix package manager as a user on Ubuntu 22.04.4. That is most likely part of the problem: Guix uses non traditional paths for packages and sets symlinks and various search-...
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All GTK/VTE-based terminal emulators are showing a significant input lag
Recently, I've installed a new SSD drive and deployed Ubuntu 22.04.04 on it. At first everything was perfect, but then I noticed that gnome-terminal has a significant input lag (up to a second) even ...
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Set GSettings setting only for a specific application
A certain application needed a font change to be easier to read.
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface document-font-name "Cantarell 25"
The application itself doesn't have a settings ...
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How to remove shadow around windows in GNOME
How can I remove the shadow around windows in GNOME 45 in a way that it will never be reapplied again even if a new theme has them?
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How can I get the GTK file chooser dialogue to automatically focus and appear over other windows?
For context, this is using ArchLinux, Gnome 45, Wayland/mutter 45.1, with Linux 6.1.58-1-lts and both gtk 4.12.3 and 3.24.38.
Whenever I use software on my system that opens a file chooser dialogue, I ...
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Ubuntu 23.04 - Change save-as dialog
I want to change the "save as" dialog in Ubuntu 23.04. I use gnome-flashback.
observed behaviour: If I type e.g. "vi" then it shows only the folders that contain the * string &...
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Getting Firefox 112 to show "Recent files" in the upload file selector
I updated my Ubuntu to 22.04 and the Firefox that come with it (FF 112) is no longer showing a "Recent files" entry in the upload file selection dialog (the dialog which is often elicited ...
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How do I set (firefox) gtk theme at runtime under wayland?
With firefox under wayland (Hyprland), if I set gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme={0,1} in ~/.config/gtk3.0/settings.ini and then launch firefox it correctly determines the system theme.
How do I set ...
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Black out application window on KDE Plasma after long uptime
After using for a long time, application window fails to render application windows.
Problem:
application screen sometimes blacks out (Attached image)
occurs in any application (Chrome, Thunderbird, ...
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Shortcut for "Create Folder" in GTK File Save Dialog
Is there a keyboard shortcut for "Create Folder" in a GTK file save dialog? I am referring to the action triggered by this button:
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File picker dialogs do not remember settings when Firefox is running in firejail
When Firefox is running in Firejail with the provided default config, the Gtk file picker dialogs do not remember sort order even when Firefox was not restarted between opening two dialogs.
I tried ...
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How do I get back the older way of (not) displaying dead key presses?
Some characters in my language (Czech) are typed using 'dead keys' (key presses that don't move the caret) followed by a letter receiving the diacritics prepared in the previous dead key stroke.
The ...
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Replacing of GTK+ file dialogs with KDE's via XDG portals not working (XFCE, Manjaro)
I'm stuck after trying and triple-checking everything from the most upvoted answer (from @ntninja) to this question. I did this on two machines - Manjaro and an old Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Installed the ...
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GTK theme doesn't works on every window
I'm using Xubuntu and downloaded a GTK 3 theme. However, this theme does not affect all parts of XFCE. For example, the buttons of the "Appearance" window in the picture and the buttons and ...
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How to map super+a for select all text in chromium in gtk?
I am trying to remap the select all behavior of ctrl+a to super+a using gtk, as chromium is built with gtk. I have the following configuration in ~/.config/gtk3.0/gtk.css
@binding-set ...
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Avahi gtk style provider error/ avahi-daemon won't start
So, just got a Raspberry Pi, and I'm trying to connect to it via mDNS.
However, when trying to start avahi-daemon on my WSL2 kali-linux distribution
sudo service avahi-daemon start
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Starting ...
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Rounded corners on a gtk window
I'm trying to get rounded corners on every corner of a window.
How can I achieve that?
I tried to change my gtk.css in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css and I'm getting rounded corners without transparency.
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gtk-launch autocomplete is very slow
Am using zsh with zsh-completions on arch linux. Whenever i press tab after gtk-launch it takes very long (3-4 seconds) to load suggestions, even if i type a partial word. What could be the cause for ...
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What are the CSS selectors for alternating rows and specific columns in GnuCash?
GnuCash lets you modify styles in the app by editing gtk-3.0.css in %APPDATA%\GnuCash.
With this method, I've been able to tweak most things I want. I'm also able to identify css selectors for some ...
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How can I change the last download location in XFCE?
Applications like simple-scan uses one kind of a file-dialog (A) and applications like chromium, telegram, xfce4-screenshooter use some other kind of file-dialog (B). (There are two different kinds of ...
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Update all GTK and Qt applications' themes on the fly
I use a tool called oomox to generate GTK themes. After I generate the new theme, I would like to run a command that makes all currently open GTK applications use said new theme. I'm pretty sure ...
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Gimp UI scaling on Windows: gtkrc menu background colour and icon sizes?
Gimp's default scaling on Windows sucks, so I have to manually scale it. I saw an existing answer, and tried to modify the "gtkrc" file of the dark theme. However, I could not find the ...
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Changing fonts for GTK3 apps under KDE
I am running KUbuntu 20.04 and changed my default fonts there. The KDE system settings GUI has a button to configure GTK appearance, but this only allows changing the whole theme to another predefined ...
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Are there text editors for macOS that use `GtkSourceView`?
I'm looking for a text editor for macOS that has decent RTL (Arabic) support.
As far as I can tell, GtkSourceView is one of the few (if not only) editor technologies that support RTL editing properly....
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Textboxes in Linux-based systems
I know this is a very wide-ranging question, but I hope someone can point me in the right direction.
For a long time now, I have been really frustrated with the fact that textboxes in my Linux ...
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spotify SIGSEGV error "Warning: GTK2 does not support Wayland!"
I'm currently using Arch Linux operating system. I just ran pacman -Syu command that updates all packages so I don't know which one is causing the problem. I then tried to start spotify and got this ...
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gtk themes on kde unreadable
I am running Manjaro KDE and today I discovered that my gtk themes aren't working, instead gtk applications tend to have white on white = unreadable.
How can I fix this?
I have tried setting the env ...
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Firefox doesn't display thumbnail in file chooser dialog (gtkfilechooser + libegg)
Original problem: Firefox 70.0-1 amd64 doesn't display JPEG image thumbnails in the file upload dialog (a default system dialog) for images with filesize > ~1.7 MB. For small images everything works ...
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Is there a way to wipe complete GTK cache?
GTK remembers a lot of stuffs like the last folder I used when you try to "Save As" in any application, the size of the "Open File" window. Is there a way to remove that?
I have cleared:
rm -f "${...
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GTK Dark themes on QT applications?
I'm using Arch Linux with Xfce desktop environment. I want to apply Plata GTK DARK theme for QT apps. I've changed /etc/profile, but I've some bugs with themes. Menu called by right-click is with ...
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