Adwaita theme in MATE Compiz

[TruboXL]

Ok, before I go around screaming at Fedora Bugzilla or MATE Github, I need to know whether you guys are having the same problem...

I go pick the Adwaita theme in MATE Compiz spin and...

This theme will not look as intended because the required window manager theme 'Adwaita' is not installed.

Going further inside only found Window Border part of Adwaita is marked missing...
Control, icons and cursor part of Adwaita are installed and working...

I have been searching and installing all sorts of packages like gnome-themes-standard etc which already preinstalled...

But nothing works... Help?

[topiwala]

I used bluebird metacity theme. It goes fine with adwaita.

[Leigh Scott]

Ok, before I go around screaming at Fedora Bugzilla or MATE Github, I need to know whether you guys are having the same problem...

I go pick the Adwaita theme in MATE Compiz spin and...



Going further inside only found Window Border part of Adwaita is marked missing...
Control, icons and cursor part of Adwaita are installed and working...

I have been searching and installing all sorts of packages like gnome-themes-standard etc which already preinstalled...

But nothing works... Help?

This should enable adwaita fallback

su
mkdir -p /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/
echo native >> /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/adwaita.txt

Then enable it in theme manager

[antikythera]

Ok, before I go around screaming at Fedora Bugzilla or MATE Github, I need to know whether you guys are having the same problem...

I go pick the Adwaita theme in MATE Compiz spin and...



Going further inside only found Window Border part of Adwaita is marked missing...
Control, icons and cursor part of Adwaita are installed and working...

I have been searching and installing all sorts of packages like gnome-themes-standard etc which already preinstalled...

But nothing works... Help?

select Adwaita, then click customise. change the window border to anaconda. then click to save the theme and give it the name Adwaita.

[Dan]

Selecting Adwaita?! Deliberately?! Willingly?! <....>

Oh, my! <....>







<....>

[antikythera]

Personally Adwaita is not something I enjoy having to look at during anaconda tasks. However, since anaconda visual elements rely on that particular theme fairly rigidly I tolerate it.

It's a means to an end but I guess each to their own...

[TruboXL]

Hello and thanks everyone for your answers and opinions...
Btw I am a fan of TraditionalOK, Glossy and WinMe (window border)
But that Adwaita theme error really gets my nerves...

Especially thanks to Leigh Scott, though your solution doesn't work (dunno where you got that, google no help) but it does lead me to something...

Apparently GNOME idiots "fully" ditched Metacity support for Adwaita theme in gnome-themes-standard because:

commit 53ee6e886c64fb704030a743dc920d0f02771571
Author: Florian Müllner <fmuellner@gnome.org>
Date: Tue Dec 23 00:09:03 2014 +0100

Drop metacity theme

Mutter now uses the GTK+ theme to style window decorations, so drop the now unused WM theme.

"Fully" because there are previous attempts to remove these files progressively with newer versions (dunno how they differ and relationship between the two yet)...

/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-2.xml
/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml

Now that all that is gone missing, this leads to Marco, Compiz, etc WM reporting...

Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "Adwaita": Failed to find a valid file for theme Adwaita
...
This theme will not look as intended because the required window manager theme 'Adwaita' is not installed.

I guess I should file a report to Bugzilla after all then... Mark as solved?

[Leigh Scott]

Especially thanks to Leigh Scott, though your solution doesn't work (dunno where you got that, google no help) but it does lead me to something...

A dev from the Mageia cinnamon team gave it to me, the hack (probably gtk3 only) works fine for cinnamon-settings.

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/r...f037d26decfe1b

[antikythera]

No problem, did you try what I suggested though? because that will give you a working adwaita theme.

[antikythera]

also, the window borders may be slightly wrong but you could install greybird and set that instead of anaconda in the customise options for window borders.

[raveit65]

This is a problem by adwaita itself.
Adwaita themes does not ship anymore a metacity theme since a long time because their devs don't care about how their theme looks in other desktops.
mate-appearance-properties needs a gtk-theme, a icon theme and a metacity theme, otherwise you see that warning.
If you think this is a bug than file out a report against gtk+ or gnome-theme-standard and ask them to add a metacity theme verson 1 or 2 back.
Or download metacity WM from https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/co...ome-flashback/
Those dev had added a /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-2.xml .

[topiwala]

Adwaita themes does not ship anymore a metacity theme since a long time because their devs don't care about how their theme looks in other desktops.

It would be fair if other people stop cooperating with Gnome people. A reason i am running away from Gnome.

If you think this is a bug than file out a report against gtk+ or gnome-theme-standard and ask them to add a metacity theme verson 1 or 2 back.

In the hope that they will not mark it WONT FIX. Filing bugs for Gnome is a waste of time. I advise everyone against using Gnome. I have changed all my machines from Gnome to either MATE or XFCE or KDE or Cinnamon.

[Dan]

It would be fair if other people stop cooperating with Gnome people. A reason i am running away from Gnome.



In the hope that they will not mark it WONT FIX. Filing bugs for Gnome is a waste of time. I advise everyone against using Gnome. I have changed all my machines from Gnome to either MATE or XFCE or KDE or Cinnamon.

Whereas I agree with a lot of this, (I have long since kicked Gnome to the curb) it is important to remember that the biggest percentage of Gnome developers and users are volunteers. I do a lot of work on themeing and polishing e16, because I use and enjoy it. I welcome others to partake of my labors, and perhaps add their own. That does not, however mean I am willing to create an Adwaita-like theme interface for it just because a current or former Gnome user wants one. If someone gets a bit cranky whilst asking for something of that nature, I am very likely to either mark it "WONT FIX" or tell them, (in the nicest way possible - maybe) that,

"The open source world is an open source world. If you really want it that bloody ugly ... you can do it yourself."

And ... I would be completely justified in doing so. My personal pet project may be an ugly baby in all respects, but it's essentially my ugly baby. If you don't like looking at it, you are absolutely free to go accumulate your own.

The problem comes in, when my ugly whelp/get attempts to sink it's tentacles deep into linux itself and strangle the life out of everyone else's ugly baby. That's when and where my dissent/disgust/disapproval of the Gnome project/infection rises to the surface.

[joncr]

I think I recall much the same happening back in Gnome 2 days. If you wanted to use a theme that didn't include all the components Gnome 2 wanted, you needed to improvise. I imagine the same thing has always happened, in all environments.

If Gnome supports their Adwaita theme for their project, or KDE supports their Breeze theme for their project, c'est la vie.

[TruboXL]

Fingers crossed, the bug is on...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1336718