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thierry95

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Registered: 2022-06-26

Posts: 2

Dracula theme problem

Hello everyone. I installed the gtk Dracula theme, but when I go to apply it, the borders of the windows and clickable tabs disappear. As you can see in the screenshot, the options are all stuck to each other. How can I fix it?
https://ibb.co/HTnPBSR/

KBar

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Registered: 2021-11-05

Posts: 689

Re: Dracula theme problem

Hi and welcome.

EDIT:
You also need to select this in the Window Manager app for it to affect Xfwm4 SSD (server-side decorations). This should fix it.

That means:
- either the styling of those elements isn't shipped with the theme (unlikely);
- or you did not build it correctly;

We'd like to know your Xfce version and some other info:

xfce4-about --version # Xfce version
xfconf-query --channel xsettings --property /NetThemeName # run this after selecting that theme
ls -l /usr/share/themes # was the theme installed correctly?

Last edited by KBar (2022-06-26 19:26:22)

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thierry95

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Registered: 2022-06-26

Posts: 2

Re: Dracula theme problem

xfce4-about 4.16.1 (Xfce 4.16)
xfconf-query --channel xsettings --property /Netgtk-master    terminal tells me there is no ¨/Netgtk-master, gtk-master is the name of the theme
ls -l /usr/share/themes    The theme does not show up in the list, I created the theme folder in the home directory and placed it inside that folder

KBar

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Registered: 2021-11-05

Posts: 689

Re: Dracula theme problem

Please, consider using code tags. It significantly improves intelligibility.

terminal tells me there is no ¨/Netgtk-master, gtk-master is the name of the theme

I see. Sorry for the confusion. You need to run the second command as is. Just copy and paste verbatim, as in:

xfconf-query --channel xsettings --property /Net/ThemeName

Do not change anything.

Next, list the contents of ~/.themes. Again, in code tags.

Finally, you also need to select the theme in Window Manager:

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StJimmy

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From: De Lage Landen

Registered: 2022-06-27

Posts: 7

Re: Dracula theme problem

It seems that the GTK theme is not compatible with the GTK version your system uses - the "symptoms" match up well enough, e.g. the "broken" tabs.
See if you can find which GTK versions the theme supports (likely findable on its homepage/repository), and which you actually have installed (query your package manager for that information).

GTK is sadly somewhat finnicky regarding theme compatibility between versions, sadly, so themes working for version N will not necessarily work properly on versions (N+1) or (N-1).

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