[SOLVED] Ugly GUI on Slackware 14.2 with Emacs, Firefox and Thunderbird

Leonard_Linux · 10-18-2020, 06:59 AM

Hello dear Slackers,

I have some GUI problems:

The menu of my emacs installation (version 27.1) is pretty ugly. When I run it from terminal I get several GTK errors/warnings.
The "Save As" window of Mozilla Firefox has at the bottoms no buttons, only text which works like a button. Same problem with Thunderbird.
Somehow the design of LQ is broken since I installed Slackware. I don't see the form fields anymore.

Could the first ones be caused by a old GTK version? Could the last one be related to the recent change in my /etc/hosts file?

I attached three screenshot one for each problem, a file with the GTK warnings of Emacs and my /etc/hosts file.

Best regards,
Leonard_Linux

3rensho · 10-18-2020, 07:12 AM

Grüß Gott Leonard_Linux,

Looks like the screenshots didn't come along for the ride.

Leonard_Linux · 10-21-2020, 08:48 AM

Hello guys,

please excuse my late answer, I hope you are still willing to help me. I attached the screenshots to my first post. Special thank you to @3rensho for giving me the hint

Best regards,
Leonard_Linux

giomat · 10-21-2020, 10:03 AM

it's the gtk theme you are using for all your issues.
gtk broke themes API some minor versions ago and slackware 14.2 (along with other LTS distributions) will break if you try to use newer versions of themes.
If you want to keep using your current theme, look for and older version compatible with gtk 3.18 (that should be the one shipped with slackware 14.2), or switch to one of the default themes,
guaranteed to work.

Leonard_Linux · 10-21-2020, 11:23 AM

Well, thank you very much! Such an easy solution :^)

Best regards,
Leonard_Linux