"SETUP"

Setup

Installation and usage.

This version always succeeds the bundled copy.

Installation

Download the latest release of Netronic found at the [landing page].

GTK / Complete

Extract the themes directory to either yourself: ~/.local/share, or everyone: /usr/local/share.

GTK / Individual

Extract your preferred themes from the themes directory to either yourself: ~/.local/share/themes, or everyone: /usr/local/share/themes.

Qt 5

The qt5ct/colors directory contains palette files for use with the Qt5 Configuration Tool (qt5ct). Extract it to either yourself: ~/.config/qt5ct, or everyone: /usr/share/qt5ct.

If you installed qt5ct during this user session, you may have to relogin for changes to start taking effect. It should inform you when to do this to set QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct.

Wine

The wine directory contains registry files for importing.

You may want to disable theming--either in winecfg, or import wine/winecfg-notheme.reg--before importing your preferred Netronic registry file.

Alternatively, Wine staging users may try the GTK theming feature.

You may need to restart wineserver for these to take effect.

Firefox

The built-in theme can not be completely disabled. See [bug 1749645] for a discussion.

Otherwise, you can use your preferred GTK 3 theme colors in Firefox:

  1. Set widget.non-native-theme.enabled to false to disable the built-in theme.
  2. Set widget.content.gtk-theme-override to its name.
  3. Restart Firefox for these to take effect.
  4. Set privacy.resistFingerprinting to false. This may break your privacy.

If the GTK colors on the scrollbar are unfit, then you can disable this by setting widget.gtk.theme-scrollbar-colors.enabled to false.

Troubleshooting

Notice

Xfce 4.18 resolved some significant issues with [Handy] and GTK 4, and we followed it with initial support. So if you have issues with either, update both Xfce and Netronic first.

Specific Troubleshooting

If you extracted the theme files elsewhere and an application is not themed right, then ensure that it can and may read there; check its [AppArmor] profile. Some applications look only in /usr/share/themes, where system-managed themes are installed. Installing Netronic there should be fine.

If a Handy application follows your dark color scheme but not the theme altogether, then either rename the theme or make a symbolic link to it, as long as its name does not end with -dark. This workaround foregoes system-wide dark mode.

If you see any odd magenta-colored widgets, then you have discovered one of our placeholders for the unknowns; please [let us know] about them.