Rounded Bottom Corners

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Rounded Bottom Corners

Post by logx7 »

Hello, most themes have rounded top courners and i've been trying to add rounded bottom corners cinnamon windows, but it just doesn't work
i've tried modifying th metacity file and the gtk file
any body have an idea on how to do so ?

i'm Using
Linux Mint 18.3
Cinnamon 3.6.4
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Re: Rounded Bottom Corners

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Not really, but I can say that modifying themes is a hell of a lot more complicated than you seem to think, and also can lead straight into a bucket of worms.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong - H. L. Mencken
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Re: Rounded Bottom Corners

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i know what i am doing, my guess is that it's not a metacity or a gtk thing, it's a cinnamon thing
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Re: Rounded Bottom Corners

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logx7 wrote: Tue May 01, 2018 11:09 am i know what i am doing, my guess is that it's not a metacity or a gtk thing, it's a cinnamon thing
Greetings! Having dabbled a bit in tweaking a few of my own GTK2-themes (ie gradients in window decorations & rounded corners on panel buttons), your question is an interesting one: my primary DE, XFCE4, will be supporting GTK3-themes soon; as there might be a chance of discontinuance of GTK2-support (one never knows where this is headed) i may have to man-up on those GTK3-specs myself ...

Your question now prompted me to look deeper into cinnamon's themes (as implemented on mint's distros) leading me to beliwve that you're dealing with a gtk-"thing" (such as border-bottom-style, border-bottom-width, border-right-width, border-radius, plus a few more styles of course). A further search turned up the relevant specifications, published @ https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable ... rties.html (i.e. its Table 3). That spec might just give you the missing guidance ... Good luck, and let us know how your tweaks turn out!
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Re: Rounded Bottom Corners

Post by logx7 »

i did check the border- radius gtk 3 method and nothing works,
the trick is in the windows manager, because if i give a border-radius to everything i'l still have this empty black background between the frame and the content
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Re: Rounded Bottom Corners

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I too like 4 rounded corners so I install the Human-theme from the repo.
Cheers, Mike
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Re: Rounded Bottom Corners

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mdurham wrote: Thu May 10, 2018 8:01 pm I too like 4 rounded corners so I install the Human-theme from the repo.
Cheers, Mike
can you please share
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Re: Rounded Bottom Corners

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First I install Synaptic then run Synaptic and search for "human" to find the human theme and install it.
After which I run System settings and select Themes to select the Human theme.
This is not the only way of doing it, but it's the way that I do it.
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