Re: difficulty adjusting vertical and horizontal panel sizes in gtk3 programs

[Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost>]

El 29/3/25 a las 18:04, Benny Siegert escribió:
> Am 29.03.25 um 08:33 schrieb Ramiro Aceves:
> > But If think it further, how can one apply a "theme" if for example, 
> > you do not use XFCE4 desktop and use something more basic like CTWM?
>
> Either you can fill out the Gtk theme CSS files, as PHO has suggested 
> above. For instance, you can load one of the predefined themes and then 
> apply CSS changes on top.
>
> The other option is to use one of the "settings daemons" that are 
> typically part of a desktop environment, without loading all the rest of 
> the stuff. For example, you can tune your theme settings in the XFCE 
> Control center. Then, in your .xinitrc, run "xfsettingsd&" before ctwm. 
> This will give you just the Gtk theme, cursor, colors and a few other 
> things.
>
> The Gnome equivalent is sysutils/gnome-settings-daemon.

Many thanks Benny for your explanation. I appreciate it very much.

I have been investigating, if I run:

"gtk3-demo" -> Cursors -> Run,

and clic with the mouse in the cursors icons, I see that  some of them 
do not work, under "resize and scrolling" icons,  only 8 of 15 icons 
work. For example crosshair icon works but col-resize, row-resize, 
ew-resize ns-resize do not work. Perhaps that is the reason that they do 
not work in thunderbird and GNURadio. But for example in "gnumeric" 
spreadshet col-resize and row-resize work for resizing columns and rows 
size. Libreoffice calc seems to work also. I think all use gtk3.

This is a nightmare, not important but a nightmare anyway ;-)

Regards.
Ramiro.