[SOLVED] VirtualBox looks ugly

mbnoimi · Post by **mbnoimi** » Mon Jul 20, 2020 11:49 pm

Hi,

VirtulBox looks ugly under my Linux Mint 20 (using Mint-Y-Dark-Grey style) as shown below; VLC looks good and my Qt5 Configuration Tool doesn't show any error or warning.

May you please tell me what's wrong?

mbnoimi · Post by **mbnoimi** » Mon Jul 20, 2020 11:50 pm

Moonstone Man · Post by **Moonstone Man** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:06 am

mbnoimi wrote: ⤴Mon Jul 20, 2020 11:49 pm VirtulBox looks ugly...

May you please tell me what's wrong?

'Ugly' is undefined.

The problem is your Qt5 settings. Select the Fusion style, then select Custom for the palette, and choose 'darker'.

mbnoimi · Post by **mbnoimi** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:17 am

Kadaitcha Man wrote: ⤴Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:06 am The problem is your Qt5 settings. Select the Fusion style, then select Custom for the palette, and choose 'darker'.

I already tried it but it doesn't fix the problem because VB shown grey instead of dark with stupid hyper links. In addition to that I don't like "darker" color scheme cuz I prefer grey scheme just like Mint-Y-Dark-Grey style

Hugh Neutron · Post by **Hugh Neutron** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 1:11 am

VirtualBox 6x has an ugly look. It's the same on 19x series. I don't like the new changes either, but I needed to update so I could install a testing 20.04 machine.

Hugh Neutron · Post by **Hugh Neutron** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 1:26 am

Update I tested a dark theme in 19x and it indeed did not only look ugly, but it very difficult to read text.

Where as QT VLC media exhibits no problem.

Moonstone Man · Post by **Moonstone Man** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:02 am

mbnoimi wrote: ⤴Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:17 am I already tried it ...

You should have said so in the first post.

antikythera · Post by **antikythera** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:18 am

Why are you so bothered what the Virtualbox manager looks like? Okay so it isn't the most attractive default interface (same ugly appearance for Windows too) but I'd be more pissed if it did not work as it should. Whatever happened to form over function?

mbnoimi · Post by **mbnoimi** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:25 am

antikythera wrote: ⤴Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:18 am Why are you so bothered what the Virtualbox manager looks like? Okay so it isn't the most attractive default interface (same ugly appearance for Windows too) but I'd be more pissed if it did not work as it should. Whatever happened to form over function?

This is not the whole story. The ugly color scheme means it's hard to use it!

currently I've to modify whole system color scheme just to read of adjust some options in VB this is really annoying!

smurphos · Post by **smurphos** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:25 am

Looks great for me - hint - my theme ships with a QT color.conf file.
Another hint - it's a virtualbox issue - https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/18258

antikythera · Post by **antikythera** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:26 am

mbnoimi wrote: ⤴Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:25 am
antikythera wrote: ⤴Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:18 am Why are you so bothered what the Virtualbox manager looks like? Okay so it isn't the most attractive default interface (same ugly appearance for Windows too) but I'd be more pissed if it did not work as it should. Whatever happened to form over function?
This is not the whole story. The ugly color scheme means it's hard to use it!

currently I've to modify whole system color scheme just to read of adjust some options in VB this is really annoying!

Fair enough, if your eyes cannot cope with the default it makes more sense. If kvantum has a Mint-X theme, try that.

mbnoimi · Post by **mbnoimi** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:30 am

smurphos wrote: ⤴Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:25 am Looks great for me - hint - my theme ships with a QT color.conf file.

I use xfce4, unfortunately I couldn't find Rhino color scheme

smurphos · Post by **smurphos** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:32 am

mbnoimi wrote: ⤴Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:30 am I use xfce4, unfortunately I couldn't find Rhino color scheme

https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/f ... -Rhino.zip

It's made for Cinnamon, but looks OK in XFCE. Be sure to read the readme...

smurphos · Post by **smurphos** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:43 am

The other option if you don't want to go as far as changing your system theme is to modify your launcher to get Vbox to use the native QT Fusion theme. It's not dark, but it is usable

Code: Select all

VirtualBox -style Fusion %U

Other ones you can try

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VirtualBox -style qt5ct-style %U

VirtualBox -style cleanlooks %U

VirtualBox -style cde %U

VirtualBox -style motif %U

VirtualBox -style plastique %U

VirtualBox -style Windows %U

mbnoimi · Post by **mbnoimi** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:52 am

smurphos wrote: ⤴Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:43 am The other option if you don't want to go as far as changing your system theme is to modify your launcher to get Vbox to use the native QT Fusion theme. It's not dark, but it is usable
Code: Select all
VirtualBox -style Fusion %U

Thanks a lot; This is a practical fix.

Thank you guys for quick responses.

Juan_David95 · Post by **Juan_David95** » Fri Nov 04, 2022 12:54 am

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sudo apt install adwaita-qt

VirtualBox -style adwaita-dark %U

ES: Este tambien se ve muy bien sobre todo cuando en qt5ct tienes estilo gtk2;paleta: predeterminada con tema adapta-nokto
EN: This also looks great especially when in qt5ct you have gtk2 style; palette: default with adapt-nokto theme

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