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Re: GTK theme while running emacs without gnome shell
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cheyrn |
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Re: GTK theme while running emacs without gnome shell |
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Mon, 13 Feb 2023 04:25:34 -0000 |
On Saturday, February 11, 2023 5:42 PM, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Kenned Doll via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > I built emacs 28.1 from source on ubuntu 22.04 running under WSL2 on
> > windows 11. I have the theme specified using the GTK_THEME environment
> > variable. The theme works as expected in gnome-terminal and nautilus,
> > but for emacs it only works within the window. The border and title
> > bar are white and I'm using Adwaita-dark theme.
> >
> > So, first, do you know how I can get the theme to apply to the title
> > bar and border?
> >
> > Also, I thought the titlebar and border were ordinarily supplied by a
> > desktop manager or desktop shell. Since I'm not running a DM, where is
> > that coming from?
>
> Since you are using weasel and Emacs 28, it comes from weasel's window
> manager, which is based on Weston. I don't think it can be changed.
> >
Someone on reddit pointed me to how this can be solved. Pure GTK was
integrated into master. So, with master or emacs-30 using the --with-pgtk
option gets you emacs built with pure GTK.
For whatever reason this didn't work for me until I used:
make bootstrap configure="--with-pgtk ..."
<https://batsov.com/articles/2021/12/19/building-emacs-from-source-with-pgtk/>
cheyrn