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David0325
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Interface old theme

Post by David0325 »

Ubuntu 16
UMS 6.5
Java 1.7

There is little problem with UMS user interface when I open UMS. User interface is ugly with an old style theme (as windows 95).
How can I get the user interface of UMS to use the GTK theme in Linux?

I already did the following tricks with no success :
https://askubuntu.com/questions/21886/h ... -gtk-theme
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/02/get-unit ... t-for.html
Nadahar
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Re: Interface old theme

Post by Nadahar »

I doubt it will make a difference, but you could try using Java 8 and see if another style is selected. When I run UMS on Linux VMs, it has some resemblence to the Linux desktop although you can definitly see that it's not "native". It looks nothing like Windows 95 though:

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Edit: Looking quickly in the code, "GTK look and feel" is what's applied for Linux by default. If it fails, it's switched to something called MetalLookAndFeel, which is pretty terrible:

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Check your log for "Error loading GTK look and feel" or post debug files like explained in red above.
David0325
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Re: Interface old theme

Post by David0325 »

Nadahar wrote: Looking quickly in the code, "GTK look and feel" is what's applied for Linux by default. If it fails, it's switched to something called MetalLookAndFeel, which is pretty terrible
Check your log for "Error loading GTK look and feel" or post debug files like explained in red above.
Thanks, I now understand what it's happened, GTKlookAndFeel failed and switched to MetalLookAndFeel that is the theme I have.
I will investigate further and show here the log.
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