gtk-warning theme parsing error

[phillip_mueller7]

Hello LM-folks,

I run Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa Cinnamon and downloaded some themes via the themes application. I tried different ones, among them Adapta-Nokto, and that one is in a way incompatible with my gnome version, I suppose. It causes the following errors, when I try to open nemo, nautilus and gnome-tweak-tool, which is kind of problematic, since I can't pick another theme from the system config, as long as I can't open it with nemo, nautilus, etc. When I try to edit the theme with tweak tool, tweak tool crashes when clicking on the dropdown menu for theme selection.

(gnome-tweak-tool:8257): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:570:1022: Missing name of pseudo-class

(nautilus:8975): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:2420:12: Missing name of pseudo-class

(nemo:9011): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:2420:12: Missing name of pseudo-class

The numbers after gtk.css: vary.

I already tried to set different gtk-theme, icon-theme and window-theme with gsettings. I restarted cinnamon several times, I used rightclick on Menu-Bar restore search error, restore default settings, but with no success

When I tried gsettings I tried the following commands:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.user-theme Mint-X (did not work)

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme /usr/share/icons/Mint-X (swallowed the command without error, when I checked with tweak tool, it showed Mint-X-theme, but no change was actually applied)

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme /usr/share/themes/Mint-X (did also "work" without any change)

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences theme /usr/share/themes/Mint-X (accepted with change in tweak-tool, but without effect either)

gsettings reset-recursively org.cinnamon (accepted command, took 5 seconds waiting, but then no actual change)


Does anybody know any other method to approach this issue? It's kind of ridiculous...

Best regards, thank you for your time to read!

[smurphos]

Best regards, thank you for your time to read!

https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/t ... apta-Nokto

Compatibility
This theme is compatible with Cinnamon versions 3.2.x, 3.4.x, 3.6.x, 3.8.x & 4.0

The GTK3 themes require GTK 3.18.x or 3.2x

None of these things are available in Mint 17.x.

If you want to use Adapta-Nokto you need to be on 18.1 or later.

If you've just run

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gsettings reset-recursively org.cinnamon

a Ctrl-Alt-Esc should be enough to get the modified settings to stick (or log off and log back on).

If not the specific keys to reset should be

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gsettings reset org.cinnamon.desktop.interface gtk-theme

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gsettings reset org.cinnamon.theme name

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gsettings reset org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences theme

I'm not sure why are using Gnome Tweak Tool on Cinnamon? I don't think It can't be installed without installing Gnome-Shell so which are you actually using?

I don't think these keys have any affect in Cinnamon but it's probably a good idea to reset them to defaults anyway (the values you have used are invalid - they don't need a full path)

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gsettings reset org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme 

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gsettings reset org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme

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gsettings reset org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences theme