Windows AIO themes

Example Dark GTK3 Theme

The Gramps theme on the Windows AIO(All in one) installation can be changed so long as the Gramps AIO is version 5.0.x or newer and uses Gtk 3.18 to 3.24 you can select a theme that MUST support those versions (also themes that are designed for a later version may not work).

GTK Themes can be found in the GTK3/4 Themes section on gnome-look.org that provide Eyecandy for your GTK Desktop.

Example theme installation

One choice that provides a pretty good looking dark theme is https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1206053/ (404 The page you are looking for does not exist. ) the "OlliFri Gtk 3.18 Dark Blue Gradient".

Download the theme file (often a tar.gz) and if necessary decompress it using 7-zip of similar.

The decompressed files should be stored in "C:\Users\you\.themes" (replacing 'you' with your user name) so that the final directory structure looks like:

C:\Users\you\.themes
   Ollis-Gtk-3.18-Dark-Grad
      Gtk-2.0
      Gtk-3.0
      ...

Find your AIO installation and edit the file in "C:\GrampsAIO64-4.2.6\etc\gtk-3.0\settings.ini".

Add in a line that says "gtk-theme-name = Ollis-Gtk-3.18-Dark-Grad" (or whatever your theme name is). The complete file should look like this:

[Settings]
gtk-theme-name = Ollis-Gtk-3.18-Dark-Grad
gtk-xft-antialias=1
gtk-xft-hinting=1
gtk-xft-hintstyle=hintfull
gtk-xft-rgba=rgb

Note: When you start Gramps, your console may show some "Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error" messages. These are usually harmless, but if there are a lot, and your Gramps screen doesn't look right, then your theme may not be compatible with the version of Gtk Gramps AIO is using.

You can check the Gramps Gtk version by starting Gramps from the console;

Gramps -v

Gramps Settings:
----------------
 python    : 3.5.2
 gramps    : GrampsAIO64-4.2.6
 gtk++     : 3.18.9
 ...

See also

• GTK 3 theme - GEPS 029: GTK3-GObject introspection Conversion
• GrampsAIO-cxfreeze-based
• Addon:Theme Preferences