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- | ====== Appearance ====== | + | ~~NOTOC~~ |
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+ | ====== | ||
- | <note warning>The page is work in progress!< | + | * **[[# |
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+ | * **[[#Icon Cache|Icon Cache]]** | ||
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+ | * **[[#Menus and Buttons|Menus and Buttons]]** | ||
+ | * **[[#Event Sounds|Event Sounds]]** | ||
+ | * **[[#Window Scaling|Window Scaling]]** | ||
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+ | The // | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
===== Style ===== | ===== Style ===== | ||
<figure "GTK+ Theme Style"> | <figure "GTK+ Theme Style"> | ||
- | {{: | + | {{: |
</ | </ | ||
- | This tab controls the visual appearance of the toolkit (Gtk+) controls, such as buttons and menus. You can switch between themes by selecting them in the list. | + | This tab controls the visual appearance of the toolkit (Gtk+) controls, such as buttons and menus. You can switch between themes by selecting them in the list. The colored rectangles to the left of the style names give a preview of the color combinations found in each style for things like window backgrounds, |
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+ | To install new themes, download a package from your distribution or from theme sites like [[http:// | ||
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+ | [[|Back To Top]] | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
- | To install new themes, download a package from your distribution or from theme sites like [[http:// | ||
===== Icons ===== | ===== Icons ===== | ||
<figure "Icon Theme"> | <figure "Icon Theme"> | ||
- | {{: | + | {{: |
- | </ | + | |
- | This tab controls the visual appearance of icons that visible | + | This tab controls the visual appearance of icons which are shown in e.g. the panel, on the desktop, in the file manager and menus. |
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+ | As with Styles, you can install new icon themes simply by dropping an icon tarball onto the list. You can also install new themes using your distribution' | ||
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+ | ==== Icon Cache ==== | ||
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+ | GTK+ has a utility to pack all the icon theme icons into a single cache file. This single file can be memory-mapped so as to avoid a lot of disk seek overhead when loading icons. The file is shared between multiple applications, | ||
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+ | For this to work, each icon theme directory containing an '' | ||
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+ | To generate a cache file for an icon-theme, run the following command in a terminal emulator: | ||
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+ | gtk-update-icon-cache / | ||
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+ | More information can be found in the [[https:// | ||
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+ | [[|Back To Top]] | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
- | Also here you can install new icon themes by dropping an icon tarball in the list or install a new theme using the distributions' | ||
===== Fonts ===== | ===== Fonts ===== | ||
<figure "Font Settings"> | <figure "Font Settings"> | ||
- | {{: | + | {{: |
- | </ | + | |
+ | ---- | ||
- | ==== LCD Hinting | + | ==== Default Font ==== |
- | On some systems LCD hinting gives better fonts, because this is not working on all system, this setting is not configurable through | + | The font selector shows the name of the current default font and its point size. |
+ | To change the font, click the font selector button. The font picker dialog opens. Select the font **Family**, **Style**, and **Size** from the lists. The preview area shows your current choice. Click **OK** to accept | ||
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+ | ==== Rendering ==== | ||
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+ | ? Enable anti-aliasing | ||
+ | ! Select this option to anti-alias fonts, so that characters have smooth edges. | ||
+ | ? Hinting | ||
+ | ! Hinting is a font rendering technique which improves the quality of fonts at small sizes and an at low screen resolutions. Select one of the options to specify how to apply hinting your fonts. | ||
+ | ? Sub-pixel order | ||
+ | ! Select one of the options to specify the sub-pixel color order for your fonts. Use this option for LCD or flat-screen displays. | ||
+ | ? LCD Hinting | ||
+ | ! On some systems, LCD hinting results in better fonts. But because this is not working on all system, this setting is not configurable through the interface. You can, however, set it with a simple query: | ||
+ | ! '' | ||
+ | ! Other possible values are '' | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
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+ | ==== DPI ==== | ||
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+ | In case you want to override the DPI (dots per inch) value calculated by the X-server, you can select the checkbox and use the spin box to specify the resolution to use when your screen renders fonts. Most of the time it is not necessary to modify the calculated DPI, but in some cases a high DPI results in sharper fonts. | ||
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+ | [[|Back To Top]] | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
- | Other possible values are '' | ||
===== Settings ===== | ===== Settings ===== | ||
<figure "Other Theme Settings"> | <figure "Other Theme Settings"> | ||
- | {{: | + | {{: |
- | </figure> | + | |
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+ | ==== Toolbar Style ==== | ||
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+ | Choose one of the four options to specify what to display on the toolbars in your GTK-compliant applications. | ||
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+ | {{:xfce: | ||
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+ | \\ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
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+ | ==== Menus and Buttons ==== | ||
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+ | ? Show images on buttons | ||
+ | ! Select this option to display an icon beside labels in the interface buttons. This option only applies to dialog buttons like {gui> | ||
+ | ? Show images in menus | ||
+ | ! Select this option to display an icon beside items in application menus and the panel menu. Not all menu items have an icon. | ||
+ | ? Enable editable accelerators | ||
+ | ! Selecting this option allows you to define new keyboard shortcuts for menu items in GTK applications. | ||
+ | ! To change an application shortcut key, open the menu, and with the mouse pointer on the menu item you wish to change, press the new combination of keys. The new shortcut will appear next to the menu item text. To remove a shortcut key, press {key> | ||
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+ | <note important> | ||
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+ | There is no way to globally restore the default keyboard shortcuts for an application if you have accidentally reassigned them. However, if you discover your mistake and know where the shortcut originally belonged, you can just reassign using this same procedure to the default location.</note> | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
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+ | ==== Event Sounds ==== | ||
+ | ? Enable event sounds | ||
+ | ! Event sounds include things like logging in/out, plugging/ | ||
+ | ? Enable input feedback sounds | ||
+ | ! Enables playback of event sounds for things like button presses, window resizing, moving slider controls, etc. | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
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+ | ==== Window Scaling ==== | ||
+ | ! You can switch between factor 1x (normal default) and 2x for HiDPI displays. It is advised to restart your session after altering this setting as not all applications may succeed in doing a live-reload. | ||
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+ | [[|Back To Top]] | ||
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+ | [[: | ||
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