[Mint-Y-Yltra-Dark] Control theming doesn't apply correctly.
Draconicrose opened this issue · 18 comments
* Mint-Y-Yltra-Dark theme v0.6.8.6
* Cinnamon 3.8.7
* Mint 19
* NVidia GT 730 | nvidia-driver-390
* https://dpaste.de/0a18 (glass log)
* https://www.dropbox.com/s/5anah10h4gbov6b/.xsession-errors (xsession-errors)
Notify author of theme
@
Issue
When applying the Mint-Y-Yltra-Dark theme to the Controls section, the theme breaks, displaying only text.
Steps to reproduce
Download Mint-Y-Yltra-Dark, apply theme to the Controls section of the Themes dialogue.
Expected behaviour
The controls inside the window would turn blue for the activated tab, like in Mint-Y-Dark, but in a blue color.
Other information
I've posted about this on Reddit and it was suggested that this might be an issue with the proper packages not being installed. However, I've tried this on two computers, one with a fresh Mint 19 install, the other upgraded from 18.3, and the same behavior happens in both of them. I believe the theme might not have been fully updated for Cinnamon 3.8, despite what the Spices site says.
It's not been updated to support GTK 3.22.x yet. I had committed sometime ago to looking at these to help out but then other life commitments got in the way. It's still on my todo list.
@Draconicrose if you refresh your cache in the Themes app and update Mint-Y-Yltra-Dark the new version with GTK3.22 support added should download. Mint-Y-Yltra-Light has also been updated.
The theme still breaks in the same way when viewing windows with elevated privileges (such as Synaptic package Manager, or a folder as root)
The same way or does is the default light Mint-Y theme used for root apps?
I can't reproduce that my end - I get the default light theme......I think it's actually Adwaita.
As a general solution to allow user added themes in ~/.themes to apply to apps running with sudo privileges you can set up a symlink in /usr/share/themes e.g. via the command
sudo ln -s ~/.themes/Mint-Y-Yltra-Dark /usr/share/themes/Mint-Y-Yltra-Dark
To troubleshoot why you are seeing this issue can you post back the output of
ls ~/.themes
ls ~/usr/share/themes
Sorry - my bad - both sets of instructions had typos..
Corrected -
To create the symlink
sudo ln -s ~/.themes/Mint-Y-Yltra-Dark /usr/share/themes/
To check the contents of /usr/share/themes
ls /usr/share/themes
draconicrose@DragonNest ~ $ ls /usr/share/themes Adwaita 'Linux Mint' Mint-X-Pink Mint-Y-Yltra-Dark Adwaita-dark Mint-X Mint-X-Purple Mist Clearlooks Mint-X-Aqua Mint-X-Red oxygen-gtk Crux Mint-X-Blue Mint-X-Sand Raleigh Default Mint-X-Brown Mint-X-Teal Redmond Emacs Mint-X-compact Mint-Y ThinIce HighContrast Mint-X-Grey Mint-Y-Dark Industrial Mint-X-Orange Mint-Y-Darker
Obviously now the symlink fails to create because apparently Yltra dark is already in there.
I'm at a bit of a loss to be honest. The contents of /usr/share/themes looks to be as expected.
Do you have a /home/root directory? There shouldn't be if this is a fresh install of 19. There might be if you upgraded from 18.x. If there is check if there is a .themes folder. If there is delete it.
Can you also log out, log back in, open Synaptic and then report back output of cat ~/.xsession-errors.
I don't have a /home/root directory, even though this was an upgraded mint 18.3.
Output: https://dpaste.de/RvY8
There are no theme parsing errors noted.
Double check that the symlink is correct
ls /usr/share/themes/Mint-Y-Yltra-Dark
Mine -
cinnamon gtk-2.0 gtk-3.22 LICENSE metadata.json
CREDITS gtk-3.0 index.theme metacity-1
Confirm Synaptic version
apt version synaptic
It should be 0.84.3linuxmint1+tara
Do you have the same issue opening Nemo as root (right click in Nemo pane, select open as root)
Reinstall stock themes
apt install --reinstall mint-themes gnome-themes-extra-data
I'm missing the gtk-3.22 folder in /usr/share/themes/Mint-Y-Yltra-Dark while it's present in ~/.themes/Mint-Y-Yltra-Dark/ !
I removed the directory in /usr/share/themes/ and recreated the symlink. Now the folder shows up and synaptic themes correctly!
I would like to avoid things like this in the future. Do I really have to manually create a symlink every time I want to test-drive a theme?
Got there in the end.... ;-)
It's a bit weird that the original symlink didn't properly mirror the target directory but there we go.
If you are testing themes downloaded via the Themes app and they include a GTK theme then you do need to create a symlink for them to apply to root apps. The Themes app will always install into ~/.themes
If you are installing themes by any other manual method you can choose to install them directly to /usr/share/themes. Themes installed via PPA or from the repos will normally install straight to /usr/share/themes.