{"id":3547,"date":"2015-11-01T14:49:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T13:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/?p=3547"},"modified":"2020-10-10T21:00:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T20:00:23","slug":"swing-menus-gtk-laf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/swing-menus-gtk-laf.html","title":{"rendered":"Display Java’s Swing menus correctly in Linux Mint’s GTK LaF"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Manuel Fix<\/a><\/li>\n
Automatic Fix<\/a><\/li>\n
Download<\/a><\/li>\n
Interesting Links<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav>\n\n\r\n
Since GTK 3 has been introduced Java Swing applications have a bug in displaying their menus when using the GTK Look and Feel (LaF).<\/p>\n
At Linux Mint Cinnamon:<\/p>\n
- No menu separators<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
  In the web there are some fixes and workarounds but just one solves the problem on Linux Mint 17 and later completely (see section \u201cInteresting Links\u201d below).<\/p>\n
  This How-To shows how to fix the problem and offers a bash script to get rid of this problem on Mint 17 and later automatically.<\/p>\n
  For Ubuntu find a small hint below.<\/p>\n
  <\/p>\n
  The animated screenshot below shows the problem befor and after the fix.<\/p>\n
  $\"Men\u00fcbug$ <\/a>
  Menu bug in Swing\u2019s GTK LaF befor and after the fix<\/p><\/div>\n
  The problem are entries in the \u201cmenus.rc\u201d files of the Mint-themes at \/usr\/share\/themes\/[mint-theme]\/gtk-2.0\/style<\/code><\/span>.<\/p>\n
  In Ubuntu <\/strong>the configuration is stored in different files (gtkrc), e.g. \/usr\/share\/themes\/Adwaita\/gtk-2.0\/gtkrc<\/code>. But the entries are pretty similar. Search for the section styles \u201cmenu\u201d<\/span> and look for the entries xthickness<\/span> und ythickness<\/span>. Set them to \u201c1<\/span>\u201c. As an alternative install the\u00a0 Global Menu\/HUD-Support for Java Swing Apps when you use the Unity desktop. See my posting Java\u2019s Swing GTK LaF nice and pretty on Ubuntu<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n
  Manuel Fix<\/h3>\nOpen the path \/usr\/share\/themes\/[mint-theme]\/gtk-2.0\/style<\/code><\/span> your used Mint-theme (e.g. \u201cMint-X\u201d) as root und edit the file menus.rc<\/span>.<\/p>\n In section style \u201cmenu\u201d<\/strong> change:<\/p>\nxthickness = 0\r\nythickness = 0\r\ntext[ACTIVE] = @base_color<\/pre>\nto:<\/p>\nxthickness = 1\r\nythickness = 1\r\ntext[ACTIVE] = @fg_color<\/pre>\nIn section style \u201cmenu-item-separator\u201d<\/strong> change the entry:<\/p>\nythickness = 0<\/pre>\nto:<\/p>\nythickness = 1<\/pre>\nYou are done for this theme.<\/p>\n To fix all Mint themes I recommend to use my bash script \u201cswing-menu-corr.sh\u201d below.<\/p>\n The changes have not effected general GTK applications at all!<\/p>\nAutomatic Fix<\/h3>\nManually changing all\u00a0menus.rc<\/span> to fix the problem is time consuming.\u00a0 The bash script \u201cswing-menu-corr.sh\u201d does the changes in all files automatically.<\/p>\n<\/a>Swing-menu-corr.sh-script<\/p><\/div>\n The script changes only Mint Themes of Linux Mint 17.x! It works well with the Cinnamon and Xfce versions.<\/del><\/p>\nUpdate 2017-01-29:<\/em> The script corrects Mint-X and Adwaita themes on Mint 17 or later only.\u00a0 Linux Mint 18\u2019s Mint-Y themes are not supported (now). Refer workaround in my comment<\/a>. This script works well with Mint\u2019s Cinnamon and Xfce versions.<\/p>\n The script creates backup files of all changed files. You can undo the changes of \u201cswing-menu-corr.sh\u201d with the script \u201cswing-menu-undo.sh\u201d automatically.<\/p>\n Furthermore the script checks if it runs under Linux Mint 17.x. If not, it displays a warning. But do not worry. \u201cSwing-menu-corr.sh\u201d cannot damage your system seriously. The \u201cundo\u201d script can bring back the original files anyway.<\/p>\n The script will be adjusted for future Mint versions. Go to the download page for the current version.<\/strong><\/p>\n Download<\/h3>\nThe script can be downloaded at the Download page<\/a>.<\/p>\n Interesting Links<\/h3>\n\nK\u2019s cluttered loft<\/a> (Blog closed unfortunately) \u2013 Ubuntu-Fix<\/li>\n Bug report @Java.com <\/a>\u2013 Ubuntu<\/li>\n GTKLookAndFeelFixer<\/a> for Arduino<\/li>\n bugs.launchpad.net\/linuxmint<\/a> \u2013 Comment of Peter Seng \u2013 fix for Mint<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p><\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/span> <\/a><\/li> Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,6,45,127,41],"tags":[103,121,128,69],"class_list":["post-3547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-german","category-english","category-gnu-linux","category-how-tos","category-linux-mint","category-software","tag-gnu-linux","tag-java","tag-linux-mint","tag-swing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4595,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions\/4595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}