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change your gtk theme
How does one do that? Through the Themes icon in the menu bar, under Preferences, I was able to double click on the following themes. Adapta-Nokto, CBlack, and Windows 10 Light Theme.
There is a checkmark to the left of them indicating they are installed. But I can't seem to activate them. I double click on them and nothing happens. Right mouse button and middle mouse button does nothing.
When I go back to the Themes tab under Simplified Settings, they do not appear in the Style drop down list.
How do I activate these themes I downloaded? I see they are in ~/.themes as expected.
So I found an option under Themes Tab called Desktop. When I click it, the downloaded themes are available to select, along with a million other ones. I selected each of my themes but really didn't notice much difference. The Start Menu changed a little bit. Very underwhelmed. Is theming only available for the Start Menu? No title bars, windows, background, icons, mouse looks different at all.
I must be doing this wrong. ??? The Mouse Pointer, Applications, and Icons buttons don't list the new theme as an option to select. ?? I guess I mistakenly thought a "theme" impacted most aspects of the GUI. ??
There are many types of themes (look at what's inside the theme folder) eg. cursor, icons, widget (gtk/qt), wm/de specific stuff (xfwm, cinnamon) etc.
The theme you downloaded might only have cinnamon folder, they can only affect the taskbar and the start menu. For the titlebar, you want gtk themes (the one with gtk-x.xx folder) and select it under Applications theme.
I think the ones listed under simplified theme are just presets of icon+cursor+gtk+desktop themes bundled together.
Can you recommend one with a short window title bar? I've tried numerous ones that appear in the Main Menu -> Preferences -> Themes: Add/Remove Tab. None of them thus far has made any difference regarding the height of the title bar. Or are you suggestions to get these gtk themes from elsewhere?
Yeah, I usually download them from Pling. You could try NewAdwaita-slim.