libgtk-3-0

[dkeg]

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=709548

I ran into this just after installed bloat after upd / dup. I put it on hold.

upgrade is libgtk-3-0 (3.4.2-6 => 3.8.2-1)

Code: Select all

sudo su
echo libgtk-3-0 hold | dpkg --set-selections

[machinebacon]

Thanks Drew,

think this affects GNOME packages (network-manager-gnome for example) mostly because I tried to break my biach and nothing bad happened. But yes, better hold that one.

[ivanovnegro]

...think this affects GNOME packages (network-manager-gnome for example) mostly because I tried to break my biach and nothing bad happened.

Yep, same here. I would say if you do not use many Gtk3 apps from upstream Gnome you are save to upgrade. I did it without issues, though the only Gtk3 app I use is Transmission.

[machinebacon]

^ Greetings from rhowaldt: "Transmission? BLOAT!" :-)

Seriously: is there another bittorrent client that is a bit slimmer than transmission but still using a GUI? Guess Mikey would say qbittorrent, though I'd like to see something lite like uget (or Window's utorrent ported to Linux without adware) :)

[wuxmedia]

Ah so, maybe that's why my fresh bauchspeck,went totally loopy after an upg

[dkeg]

^ could be. eh, you don't really use that anymore do you? I'm about to even dump my kielbasa partition. Been getting all my goodies over to bloat. Like MB says, we since bbq doesn't use much gt3 elsewhere, and I don't think I would be much affected, held it anyway.

Guess threeswm is next on my list. Jules came back from that hiatus on fire!

[ivanovnegro]

Jules came back from that hiatus on fire!

My stomach already complains.

[ivanovnegro]

If you use too many "bloated" parts of Gnome and upgraded libgtk3 then read here, a newer theme (based on Gtk 3.8) might help you until they fix the packages in Sid:

http://www.linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.p ... 3434#p3434

[rhowaldt]

@Jules: well, i use Deluge for bittorrent nowadays, which surely isn't any less bloated than Transmission, but having to look at that crappy-ass GUI that Transmission gives me makes me want to cry :D

[wuxmedia]

well, i just got used to gnome shell.
I try to use it, but it keeps fucking up. (read; I keep fucking it up)
the aerosnap thing's nice.
I'm getting to be WM/DE agnostic, as long as the browser fires up...
my P2P'ing is done on the server. (talking like i've got a Cray upstairs) mldonkey uses a webgui. or telnet for the brave.

[machinebacon]

general info: there's now aerosnap in xfce4.10 (window manager settings, IIRC)

[Verändert]

Boy, that upgrade ripped apart my Cinnamon install.

[wuxmedia]

^^ yes, must look again at xfce. the menu always seems untidy. even though its logical.

[Verändert]

I even wondered: Hey, does Cinnamon support libgtk 3.8 now ?
No. It doesn't.
I would reinstall but then i could try another flavor instead. I just have to find a way to reach a graphical desktop with those.
Sid is even more fun than Arch ;-)

[ivanovnegro]

general info: there's now aerosnap in xfce4.10 (window manager settings, IIRC)

But I never got it to work as expected, a poor man's snap maybe.

[machinebacon]

Ivan, that's the thing where you disable 'wrap to next workspace'. Afterwards, pulling the window towards an edge will 50% it and snap it. Should be possible to assign keybindings to it a la kwin.

[machinebacon]

I even wondered: Hey, does Cinnamon support libgtk 3.8 now ?
No. It doesn't.
I would reinstall but then i could try another flavor instead. I just have to find a way to reach a graphical desktop with those.
Sid is even more fun than Arch ;-)

You can try to hold back the packages libgtk-3-0, libgtk-3-bin, libgtk-3-common and gir1.2-gtk-3.0 after installing the Cinnamon flavor.

Code: Select all

su -
echo "<packagename> hold | dpkg --set-selections"

The problems related to this bug will happen to apps that use the gtk3-themes, no matter which base you use. Such an app is gnome-network-manager, for example, or file-roller, evince, evolution, but also lightdm supports gtk3.

You can try to live without gtk-apps at all, in this case pick the CLI apps and those provided in x11-apps ;) "Cameltoe" uses as little gtk as possible, and of course all the no-X flavours and Bloat/Threesum/Threeswm. Well, of course you can go pure KDE or razor-qt, they use no gtk-apps at all (at least no gtk3-bloat)

[ivanovnegro]

Ivan, that's the thing where you disable 'wrap to next workspace'. Afterwards, pulling the window towards an edge will 50% it and snap it. Should be possible to assign keybindings to it a la kwin.

Oh, that's the way. How blind I am. Thanks Julesy.

[Verändert]

Will this affect a Mate install, too ?

[machinebacon]

'

Probably not, as long as there are no gtk3-depending apps installed. Purging libgtk-3-* might help, check the list of "to be removed " packages.

Will test it later today, if you're patient.