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Platform Development • Re: Future of GTK2 and Pale Moon

Pale Moon forum - Forum index [Unofficial] April 28, 2026
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Agree. Also, I don’t think Pale Moon themes are that popular among Linux users. The whole idea is to have a gtk theme (gtk4/gtk3/gtk2) that gives a consistent look to every gtk application on your desktop.

Well, personally as a Linux-only user (and an X11 user ... I hope not to be forced to move to wayland throughout my life) I do not use any desktop environment but a window manager (namely FVWM), which is very light and highly customizable (your way, your window manager ? ). So I never explicitly used a gtk theme (I have also been told that theming GTK3 or above is not a trivial task) I have also never used a browser theme ... but I won't mind using one (if gtk2 is dropped) which would give the look-and-feel of which I posted an image in thiis post https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.ph ... 65#p272775. Essentially what I'd like its to have only-text buttons (which is controlled by the Pale Moon preferences), with an Helvetica-like font over a plain gray background. This at the moment is achieved by this .gtkrc-2.0 (that's why I said explicitly above ... I guess this theming affects only Pale Moon)

CODE:

gtk-theme-name = "Traditional"gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"style "font"{font_name = "DejaVu Sans 12"}widget_class "*" style "font"gtk-font-name = "DejaVu Sans 12"

Any recommendation for an existing Pale Moon theme which will give that look-and-feel ?


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