#921263 thunar: Thunar ignores dark theme

Package:
thunar
Source:
thunar
Description:
File Manager for Xfce
Submitter:
sergio
Date:
2019-10-07 14:21:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#921263#5
Date:
2019-02-03 19:03:12 UTC
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Thunar ignores

GTK_THEME=Adwaita:dark

and

% cat .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
[Settings]
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme = true


while thunar-settings is dark with one of this setting.
#921263#10
Date:
2019-10-06 16:52:44 UTC
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I'm seeing similar issues.  Using lxappearance or the lxde/xfce desktop
tool to change the theme has no affect on Thunar's appearance.  Checking
both .gtkrc-2.0 and .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini shows that the them is set
correctly.
#921263#15
Date:
2019-10-07 14:11:17 UTC
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properties other than the standard ones set by themes.  I found
several web pages suggesting that one add Thunar-specific styling
rules to the `gtk.css` file of one's chosen theme.  My efforts to
discover exactly what CSS classes or IDs to use were more or less
fruitless.

Anyway, this looks like the sort of gnarly problem that Linux
distributions have to solve: different upstreams (Thunar vs themes)
making different assumptions about how things are supposed to work.
Good luck!


Norman Ramsey