[Geany-Users] How to get a dark ui / dark theme in Geany windows

[Juan Ignacio Tel]

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 at 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.
> > 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
> >
>
> 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
>
> [0]: https://wiki.geany.org/howtos/start
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