If you would like some more detailed assistance, it would be helpful if you identified the version of Xfce and Thunar that you are running and the icon theme that you are trying to use (and how you installed it).
This package contains several theme files for xfwm4,the window manager of the Xfce4 project. If you areunsatisfied with its default theme, then installingthis package might be a good idea. Tags: User Interface: Graphical User Interface, X Window System, Role: Application Data, Application Suite: suite::xfce, uitoolkit::gtk, X Window System: Theme
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Install the xfce4 group. You may also wish to install the xfce4-goodies group which includes extra plugins and a number of useful utilities such as the mousepad editor. Xfce uses the Xfwm window manager by default.
xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin (also part of xfce4-goodies) is an alternative application launcher. It shows a list of favorites, browses through all installed applications through category buttons, and supports fuzzy searching. After package being installed, it can replace Applications Menu as first item in Panel 1 (in Settings > Panel > Items add Whisker Menu).
The List of applications/Security#Screen lockers contains a short description of these screen lockers together with other popular applications. There is in this list an alternative locker, light-locker, which integrates particularly well with xfce4-power-manager. Once it is installed, Xfce Power Manager's setting gains an additional Security tab to configure light-locker and the existing Lock screen when system is going for sleep setting is relocated under this tab. In this new GUI, it is possible to set whether the session should be locked upon screensaver activity or whenever the system goes to sleep.
XFCE themes are available at xfce-look.org. Xfwm themes are stored in /usr/share/themes/theme_name/xfwm4, and set in Settings > Window Manager. GTK themes are stored in /usr/share/themes/theme_name/gtk-2.0 and /usr/share/themes/theme_name/gtk-3.0 and are set in Settings > Appearance.
xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin provides a panel applet which has support for keyboard volume control and volume notifications. As an alternative, you can install xfce4-volumed-pulseAUR, which also provides keybinding and notification control, but without an icon sitting in the panel. This is handy, for example, when using pasystray at the same time for a finer control.
Terminal color themes or palettes can be changed in the GUI, under the Appearance tab in Preferences. These are the colors that are available to most console applications like Emacs, Vi and so on. The settings are stored individually for each user in their /.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc file. There are many other themes to choose from. Check forum thread Terminal Colour Scheme Screenshots for hundreds of available choices and themes.
Limiting the minimum brightness can be useful for displays which turn off backlight on a brightness level of 0. In xfce4-power-manager 1.3.2 a new hidden option had been introduced to set a minimum brightness value with a xfconf4-property. Add brightness-slider-min-level as an int property in xfconf4. Adjust the int value to get a suitable minimum brightness level.
Some configuration tools may corrupt displays.xml, which results in GTK themes under Applications Menu > Settings > Appearance ceasing to work. To fix the issue, delete /.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/displays.xml and reconfigure your screens.
To detect and use the sensors of an NVIDIA GPU, install libxnvctrl and then rebuild xfce4-sensors-plugin with ABS. Another option is xfce4-sensors-plugin-nvidiaAUR which replaces xfce4-sensors-plugin.
You can the Whisker plugin from the Synaptic package manager. Search for xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin, right-click on it, and select Mark for Installation. Then click on the Apply button in the toolbar. Synaptic will automatically download and install the selected package.
Change the general theme (also applies to windows manager) to something more modern and polished. A good example that often comes is the Arc theme: GitHub - horst3180/arc-theme: A flat theme with transparent elements, looks like this:Screenshot_2019-04-24_10-09-031049594 149 KB
Depends: mousepad, ristretto, thunar-archive-plugin, thunar-media-tags-plugin, xfburn, xfce4-battery-plugin, xfce4-clipman-plugin, xfce4-cpufreq-plugin, xfce4-cpugraph-plugin, xfce4-datetime-plugin, xfce4-dict, xfce4-diskperf-plugin, xfce4-fsguard-plugin, xfce4-genmon-plugin, xfce4-mailwatch-plugin, xfce4-netload-plugin, xfce4-notes-plugin, xfce4-notifyd notification-daemon notify-osd, xfce4-places-plugin, xfce4-screenshooter, xfce4-sensors-plugin, xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin, xfce4-systemload-plugin, xfce4-taskmanager, xfce4-terminal, xfce4-timer-plugin, xfce4-verve-plugin, xfce4-wavelan-plugin, xfce4-weather-plugin, xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin, xfce4-xkb-pluginRecommends: xfce4-power-managerSuggests: gigolo, parole, xfce4-indicator-plugin, xfce4-mpc-plugin, xfce4-radio-plugin
A lot better (not impossible otherwise) if we could use something already packaged for and available from packages.debian.org. Looks like this one even is: Debian -- Details of package arc-theme in busterMaybe we can just install that package?
sudo apt-get install arc-theme --no-install-recommendsYou reverted to a previous snapshot (or removed all previously installedpackages), then did sudo apt-get install arc-theme --no-install-recommends, and the result was the pretty result as above?
Debian -- Details of package terminator in stretch - the horiz / vertical splitting, with easily changing text size in each is much more friendly to use than xfce terminal tabs or opening multiple windows.
I also first installed the theme via this direct deb and it was even worse. Mouse selection of both page text and address bar text in Tor Browser had no normal dark-colored bgcolor contrast, so it was unusable.
From what I've seen I might need a KDE theme. I have found this, but it gives me a .qtcurve file.I looked up how to use it and this page told me to use KDE system settings. Sounds weird, but ok, I installed the systemsettings package.But in the KDE system settings I only had the categories "shortcuts", "network settings" and "network connectivity". So I installed kde-config-gtk-style and it did indeed add the "application style" category to the KDE settings.There I first tried setting "BlackMATE" as the GTK2 and GTK3 theme, which did nothing. Then I tried importing the downloaded theme file, which didn't work, because it expected a .tar file.So I packed the theme file into a .tar archive (which seems weird, why would I need to do that?) and imported that, which made the settings window become unresponsive and then close itself. I guess it's not the sort of tar file it expects?When I click "download GTK2 themes" or "download GTK3 themes", it stays at "initialising" and does nothing.
Firstly, the program "qt5ct" can be used to edit the theme of programs using Qt themes instead of whatever Cinnamon, Mate, etc. use. On Manjaro I installed it with yay qt5ct, on Debian it's probably sudo apt-get install qt5ct. I selected an arbitrary dark theme ("style") in there.
You can find this setting under KDE's System Settings > Appearance > Workspace theme > Look and FeelMaybe it is a bug in that KDE version or debian release, did you try testing out the latest version (in a virtual machine)? I'm on Dolphin 17.04.2.
you will lose almost all the file icons. The files are displayed with their names only, without the fancy icons.Of course, this will happen if you are not using Gnome as your desktop environment but, for example, xfce.To remedy this, make sure an icon theme is set in qt5ct.
Xfce is broken up into several dozen packages, so you have a lot of control over which components you install. In Debian and Natty you can install the Xfce4 meta-package to get a complete desktop environment with niceties like Network Manager, themes, a top panel, a dock, system menu, and a nice logout dialog with a complete set of actions: log out, shut down, restart, suspend, hibernate, and save session. Figure 1 shows how it looks in Natty.
Xfce4 in stretch is, as I understand it, in transition between GTK2 and GTK3. Mostly it's still using GTK2 (xfce4-session, xfwm4, thunar) but some of the components are using GTK3 (notably xfce4-terminal and xfce4-notifyd).
mate-notifications are a decent suggestion. They were fairly primitive in jessie and may still be in stretch, but they were somewhat theme-able and support square corners in jessie. I'll test them next.
notify-osd is a bust. The config tool only works on Unity, apparently. Besides, even though the patched version from Launchpad that allows tweaking backports and installs fine, I'm looking for a solution that uses a stretch package, as per our policy (we follow Debian stable, everything else is UAYOR). 2ff7e9595c
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