ConatusPrincipleI'm giving #XFCE on #linuxmint a new try these days after a few months on Cinnamon and I'm generally impressed! 1. Almost as snappy and responsive as #dwm, low RAM usage, great for my old laptop. 2. Has a lot of functionality and customizability and looks great after some tweaking. But I have issues switching between light and dark modes, switching GTK theme leaves apps (web browser specifically) stuck in dark mode and it's quite stubborn. Any tips? #linux
Paul@balterwenjamin42 I use Xfce (Xubuntu LTS) and don't have any problems switching themes. I have everything (browser and websites) set to follow the system theme, and made a little toolbar widget to make it quicker and easier to switch between dark and light themes.
@plwt I'll try resetting XFCE to defaults and redo my theming, I might have made some mistakes along the way, made some bash-scripts to make switching easier, maybe the problem lies there.
@balterwenjamin42 If it helps, this is the widget I use:
https://codeberg.org/plwt/Xubuntu_theme_switcher
You could set the light and dark themes on the script, then you just hit the icon to change between them.
@plwt Thank you, I will try it!
Michael T Babcock@balterwenjamin42 I use #XFCE on #Fedora as my daily driver (laptop and PC) and I have to throw in the app updater.
dnfdragora is not it.
Have I written a replacement? no. Should someone? Yes please.
dnfdragora is not it.
Have I written a replacement? no. Should someone? Yes please.
@mikebabcock Scripts and cron jobs seems to be the option many settle for in the case of XFCE's shorcomings. And that's fine I guess. But I am reading up on XFCE's compositor and window manager and it seems to be a bit outdated regarding how it handles certain parts of GTK in general. Tried switching to Picom but then Steam and games started acting up so I caved and went back to Xfwm4. Learning by doing.