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How to switch themes in Artix OpenRC Plasma

By switching original theme with Breeze Dark the monitor switch to white.

Besides`cmst-qt` don't find network.

Dear developers,

in case nobody tells you till now, the original theme is inappropriate. If I click on Menu of `Dolphin` or `Kate` (e.g. File-s) it takes two columns to show all sub-menu-points and that on a 4k-Monitor (3840*2160). Breeze theme is not perfect (missing gtk-dark) but I could set to works properly (even as Admin).

The installation "medium" don't let assign me an extra swap-partition to be used as such, and I have to add it after the installation, that's worse for newbie. Clear, the installation take on my 4kn-nvme just 2 minutes but... no office, no multimedia and nor a complete KDE software bunch (former called `kde-full`), even `krusader` is not there anymore.

The intentional switch-off of network through `cmst-qt` was a perfect thing, now works even this no more.

Please tell me how I can switch back to `breeze-dark` without artifacts and getting withe theme, how to get back working `cmst-qt` and an alternative two panels 'File-Manager' that can browse and change root-files.

Thanks in advance and best regards.

Re: How to switch themes in Artix OpenRC Plasma

Reply #1 –
Hello there and welcome to Artix!

with the theme, this might help from the wiki: https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Troubleshooting#When_I_switch_theme_in_Plasma.2FMATE.2FXFCE.2FAnyDEorWM_the_colours_are_broken.21

As for cmst, well, i did a quick google and it is not in Arch repo's (so wouldn't be in Artix's either), and has been consigned to AUR so could be installed from there, need to add artix universe repo to install yay.  (https://github.com/andrew-bibb/cmst)

And the FM question:   its a long time since dolphin could be run with admin privileges, although the likes of Suse held onto it - so if a file is now changed that requires sudo to save it, you get a prompt.   Obviously this doesn't help  if adding firmware files etc, so what i do is use either nemo (start it from a command line with sudo nemo) or pcmanfm, (can elevate within the FM) both of which do side by sides.  Krusader is in Arch community repo if needed so the Arch repo's would need to be added as per the wiki too:
https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Repositories

 

Re: How to switch themes in Artix OpenRC Plasma

Reply #4 –
Quote from: conky60 – on
Greetings, Krusader is also to be found in the omniverse repo.
 https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Repositories#Unofficial_User_Repositories

Best regards.
None if you install `artix-plasma-openrc-20220713-x86_64.iso` but if you install `artix-community-qt-openrc-20220713-x86_64.iso` as I have done this time

Re: How to switch themes in Artix OpenRC Plasma

Reply #5 –
Quote from: gavincc – on
Hello there and welcome to Artix!

with the theme, this might help from the wiki: https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Troubleshooting#When_I_switch_theme_in_Plasma.2FMATE.2FXFCE.2FAnyDEorWM_the_colours_are_broken.21
...
I will give a try and post the results or what I have done and if ti's working, a mouse-pointer with `24` on 4k-display is just 2*3 mm and this is to small.

Maybe the Devs will consider modifying the actual theme (including cursor/mouse) or use this post: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=162235 to remediate `breeze-dark` theme.
Not only the Artix-Themes are brownish ugly, the icons/click-boxes in apps like `octopi` are to small and unclickable, the space in sub-menus to high, overlapped apps cannot be distinguished, the corner to enlarge or redimension an app is not catchable. Maybe the original settings are good enough for 1920*1080 but no more.

But... we have also something good, the Artix-Icons are all `*.svg`

Re: How to switch themes in Artix OpenRC Plasma

Reply #6 –
Quote from: nous – on
You really need the community-qt ISO. Thank me later.  8)
I had already installed the "community-qt-iso" and recognize:
1. The old-one "plasma-openrc" have a repository more: Server = https://mirror1.cl.netactuate.com/artix/universe/$arch
2. The "community-qt-iso" have "multilib" that the other doesn't have.

Anyway, at end i had a problem with updates `pacman -Syyu` or the keys, solved with:
1. https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Troubleshooting (Invalid or corrupted packages (PGP signature)  and...
2. https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,4479.0.html  `pacman-key --refresh-keys`

Ergo: Not all shining things are gold ;-)

 Additionally some packages must be replaced by the "AUR" (ckb-next-openrc...)

One thing is but good, the printers are installed by default in both new ISO's, even the intranet-printers

P.S.: Both "Installer" don't let me assign the 3rd partition to be used as `swap`, the older installed have done --> this time have I to insert the `swap` manually in the `/etc/sftab` :-(

Re: How to switch themes in Artix OpenRC Plasma

Reply #7 –
I was wrong with the cursor-size, it's not 24 but 18. That's not only inappropriate in a 4k-Display, that's sabotage or mental illness.

file:///etc/skel/.gtkrc-2.0

Content:
Code: [Select]
include "/usr/share/themes/Artix-dark/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
style "user-font"
{
	font_name="Roboto"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"

gtk-font-name="Roboto 11"
gtk-theme-name="Artix-dark"
gtk-icon-theme-name="matefaenzadark"
gtk-toolbar-style=GTK_TOOLBAR_ICONS
gtk-toolbar-icon-size=GTK_ICON_SIZE_BUTTON
gtk-primary-button-warps-slider=0
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=true
gtk-button-images=1
gtk-menu-images=1
gtk-cursor-theme-name=Premium
gtk-cursor-theme-size=18
gtk-enable-event-sounds=1
gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds=1
gtk-primary-button-warps-slider=0
gtk-xft-antialias=1
gtk-xft-hinting=1
gtk-xft-hintstyle=hintfull
gtk-xft-rgba=rgb
That has no more the famous Linux liberty (as per Init-System) and should communicate before someone download the OS @ all.

Well, the Topic is now:
Why i could switch easily theme to breeze-dark in my ARTIX-0002 (installed 2021-06-22) and why i cannot do it anymore in ARTIX-003 (installed 2-3 days ago)

By the way, the `file:///etc/skel/.gtkrc-2.0` are identical hence the changes are made somewhere else.

Ach! The `bash-shell` tell me each time some stories that i want to stop telling me about Vietnam and other things, who programmed this sh** a small child? Better you put the `ZSH-shell` instead with completion, colors and other nice & useful things.

Nobody need an unusable DE

Re: How to switch themes in Artix OpenRC Plasma

Reply #8 –
saying such things as "the Artix-Themes are brownish ugly" and "who programmed this sh** a small child?" are pretty rude by any measure -  maybe something a bit easier might be a good idea to learn more first (and get to grips with the difference between the base OS and the DE), rather than descending to such comments....or build from base in pretty much the same way as you would with Arch, or just be willing to learn as you go without such petulant teenager style comments.  Just saying.

Re: How to switch themes in Artix OpenRC Plasma

Reply #9 –
i like the brownish themes a lot cause it fits together well with the fancy Kvantum composited Qt styles :)

Re: How to switch themes in Artix OpenRC Plasma

Reply #10 –
Quote from: gavincc – on
saying such things as "the Artix-Themes are brownish ugly" and "who programmed this sh** a small child?" are pretty rude by any measure -  maybe something a bit easier might be a good idea to learn more first (and get to grips with the difference between the base OS and the DE), rather than descending to such comments....or build from base in pretty much the same way as you would with Arch, or just be willing to learn as you go without such petulant teenager style comments.  Just saying.

How would you call a mouse-pointer of 18 on a 4k-Display? I call this BS! The mouse-pointer I use with breeze-dark is 36=double.
These are not things of DE, cause DE is Plasma, these are things of settings something that normal user cannot change anymore, hence a kind of 'non freeware' and contrary to Linux philosophy.

How you call opening menu "File" in dolphin show the items in two column? The whole theme is "pour la pubelle", the mouse pointer cannot catch any windows-border and the polling times of mouse are also modified. Is this a single man OS?

The rules or philosophy are set by you? One is respected and the other not? Are you the "manufacturer" o this theme with these "adjustments"?

Starting the "konsole" i get each time another proverb, e.g.:
"What the gods would destroy they first submit to an IEEE standards committee."
"English literature's performing flea.
                -- Sean O'Casey on P. G. Wodehouse"
"But what we need to know is, do people want nasally-insertable computers?"
What is this? Childish, an offense, idiotic? What is this?

The repositories are officially the same in `/etc/pacman.conf` but installing the 3.7 GB OS are so many additional undeclared and hidden repository with much more packages. Regarding Arch, Arch have `systemd` and a `kde-full` to install all the Plasma-packages. Why installing packages and not upgrade the `gpg-keys`? Right for this you have to chroot or restart the system and follow the instruction that are only on live-ISO or on Web. But... if you chroot before you reboot... could the system made unbootable right?

If you are the coder... quit the job, that is not good for you.
I will not go down to your level of understanding on how to make an OS. I'm offended each time opening the console and I have the right to be rude and I'm fed-up that every distro make their own hidden adjustments of the bash-promt and other strange things.


Re: How to switch themes in Artix OpenRC Plasma

Reply #11 –
Quote from: Hitman – on
i like the brownish themes a lot cause it fits together well with the fancy Kvantum composited Qt styles :)
Yes, you are right, brown like...
But these theme cannot be switched out or changed, just like in Windoof and that's the problem.
Everyone have the own taste and I respect this, but, I cannot respect someone that impose me to have the same taste as himself.
That's politic, dictatorship, fascism in a linux-distro and must be stooped before someone copy this behavior.

Re: How to switch themes in Artix OpenRC Plasma

Reply #12 –
Quote from: tony26102 – on
That's politic, dictatorship, fascism in a linux-distro and must be stooped before someone copy this behavior.
That had me in stitches. Thank you.

Re: How to switch themes in Artix OpenRC Plasma

Reply #13 –
Quote from: tony26102 – on
Yes, you are right, brown like...

 I'm not big of a fan either about brown color. But fits best the autumn season. Imagine autumn without brown--reddish nuances.