Even though I love geany, the lack of a true dark ui in windows was one of the main problems (if not the main one).
Finally I've found an easy trick to get a dark UI, so I'm sharing it here. It works with Geany 1.37 and probably with earlier versions using GTK2. No need for a GTK3 build.
Steps. 1. Go to the following page. It's a GTK2 dark theme for Inkscape. We're gonna basically use it for Geany. It works. https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1304466/
2. Download the dark theme from the github repository. You have the link in the page linked in step 1. Or just click here: https://github.com/SimBotBiz/inkscape-dark-theme
3. Go to '[Geany root folder]\share\themes\MS-Windows\gtk-2.0'. There you'll find a file called 'gtkrc'. Rename it as 'gtkrc-backup-original'.
4. In the zip file downloaded from github, go to share>themes>Ms-Windows>gtk-2-0. There you have both a file named 'gtkrc' and a folder named 'ui'. Copy both of them in the folder in the step 3.
5. And that's all. After it, Geany in windows should look like this: https://postimg.cc/vg1kK22S
On 2021-04-21 11:21 p.m., Juan Ignacio Tel wrote:
Even though I love geany, the lack of a true dark ui in windows was one of the main problems (if not the main one).
Finally I've found an easy trick to get a dark UI, so I'm sharing it here. It works with Geany 1.37 and probably with earlier versions using GTK2. No need for a GTK3 build.
Steps.
- Go to the following page. It's a GTK2 dark theme for Inkscape. We're
gonna basically use it for Geany. It works. https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1304466/
- Download the dark theme from the github repository. You have the link in
the page linked in step 1. Or just click here: https://github.com/SimBotBiz/inkscape-dark-theme
- Go to '[Geany root folder]\share\themes\MS-Windows\gtk-2.0'. There
you'll find a file called 'gtkrc'. Rename it as 'gtkrc-backup-original'.
- In the zip file downloaded from github, go to
share>themes>Ms-Windows>gtk-2-0. There you have both a file named 'gtkrc' and a folder named 'ui'. Copy both of them in the folder in the step 3.
- And that's all. After it, Geany in windows should look like this:
Good info. If you feel like it, it would be cool to add to the wiki[0] under the "Windows Related" howtos section (or wherever you think it fits best).
Regards, Matthew Brush
Sure. No problem.
One remark, though. I don't have a github account. If you or somebody else here has one, maybe it'd be a good idea to fork the theme (as a backup) and include the link to both the original and the forked version in the wiki. The theme is aimed to Inkscape. Right now it works just fine in Geany, but the author could make some change that works in Inkscape but breaks it in Geany.
On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 1:42 AM Matthew Brush mbrush@codebrainz.ca wrote:
On 2021-04-21 11:21 p.m., Juan Ignacio Tel wrote:
Even though I love geany, the lack of a true dark ui in windows was one
of
the main problems (if not the main one).
Finally I've found an easy trick to get a dark UI, so I'm sharing it
here.
It works with Geany 1.37 and probably with earlier versions using GTK2.
No
need for a GTK3 build.
Steps.
- Go to the following page. It's a GTK2 dark theme for Inkscape. We're
gonna basically use it for Geany. It works. https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1304466/
- Download the dark theme from the github repository. You have the link
in
the page linked in step 1. Or just click here: https://github.com/SimBotBiz/inkscape-dark-theme
- Go to '[Geany root folder]\share\themes\MS-Windows\gtk-2.0'. There
you'll find a file called 'gtkrc'. Rename it as 'gtkrc-backup-original'.
- In the zip file downloaded from github, go to
share>themes>Ms-Windows>gtk-2-0. There you have both a file named 'gtkrc' and a folder named 'ui'. Copy both of them in the folder in the step 3.
- And that's all. After it, Geany in windows should look like this:
Good info. If you feel like it, it would be cool to add to the wiki[0] under the "Windows Related" howtos section (or wherever you think it fits best).
Regards, Matthew Brush
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Thank you for this information. Please make sure you mark this as Windows-only (or possibly other OS too, but not Linux). For Linux users, all this is irrelevant, confusing and potentially harmful.
On Thu, 2021-04-22 at 08:21 +0200, Juan Ignacio Tel wrote:
Even though I love geany, the lack of a true dark ui in windows was one of the main problems (if not the main one).
Finally I've found an easy trick to get a dark UI, so I'm sharing it here. It works with Geany 1.37 and probably with earlier versions using GTK2. No need for a GTK3 build.
Steps.
- Go to the following page. It's a GTK2 dark theme for Inkscape.
We're gonna basically use it for Geany. It works. https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1304466/
- Download the dark theme from the github repository. You have the
link in the page linked in step 1. Or just click here: https://github.com/SimBotBiz/inkscape-dark-theme
- Go to '[Geany root folder]\share\themes\MS-Windows\gtk-2.0'. There
you'll find a file called 'gtkrc'. Rename it as 'gtkrc-backup- original'.
- In the zip file downloaded from github, go to share>themes>Ms-
Windows>gtk-2-0. There you have both a file named 'gtkrc' and a folder named 'ui'. Copy both of them in the folder in the step 3.
- And that's all. After it, Geany in windows should look like this:
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