Knowledge Base

I packaged up a small C utility written by an enterprising user at Stackoverflow. This is a small utility that makes it easy to discover what the current default theme is for gtk3. Patches are welcome for providing support for other versions of gtk. I also added a python3 implementation because, one shouldn't always need a C compiler for something so basic. I decided to package this up, because reading ~/.gtkrc-2.0 or ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini should be a oneliner! Plus, I can never have too many packages of my own. You should run these programs with stderr redirected to null (i.e., 2>/dev/null) if your theme causes Gtk minor indigestion.

Code

The entire C program follows.

#include 
#include <gtk/gtk.h>
int main() {
    gchar *prop;
   gtk_init(0, 0);
   g_object_get(gtk_settings_get_default(), "gtk-theme-name", &prop, 0);
   return !printf("%s\n", prop);
}

It is worth noting that the original author uses pkg-config to select all the include paths for the linker. Go read the Makefile for the details of that. The python program follows.

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#!/usr/bin/python3
import gi
gi.require_version("Gtk","3.0")
from gi.repository import Gtk
settings=Gtk.Settings.get_default()
print(settings.get_property('gtk-theme-name'))

References

Weblinks

1. C version lifted entirely from linux - GTK2 vs. GTK3: detect GTK3 theme in bash script - Stack Overflow