Materia-theme: Volume and brightness sliders invisible with GDM theme installed

[babba22]

Reporter Info

• Materia version: v20181115
• GTK+ 3 version: 3.22.30
• Distribution (and version): Solus
• Desktop environment (and version): Gnome 3.28
• Related application (and version): -

Actual Issue

I installed the GDM theme as explained here and it worked flawlessly. Problem is that now both audio and brightness bars show only the green dot, but not the slider:

I get the same annoyance also on the pop-up that appears when changing volume or brightness level using keyboard shortcuts:

[nana-4]

Hi. How did you get Materia theme itself? Manually? Or from a distro package?

It seems you unexpectedly installed the 3.30 version of gnome-shell/gdm theme, even though your GNOME version is 3.28. I don't yet know why it happened.

[nana-4]

Or maybe, did you install Materia before installing GNOME Shell? If so, it can be explained.

It's because the install.sh script detects your installed gnome-shell version then installs a proper version of gnome-shell theme. Otherwise, if you have not installed gnome-shell, it automatically installs the latest version of gnome-shell theme supported by Materia. Maybe that's the reason why you got the 3.30 version of gnome-shell/gdm theme in Materia.

In any case, this problem should be able to fix by re-installing Materia then re-installing its GDM theme.

[babba22]

Hi, I installed the package offered by the distribution and gnome-shell was already installed... so that means that probably I should tell to the mainteiners of the distro about this problem?

In the meanwhile, how can I solve this problem? Do I have to uninstall materia offered by the distribution and install from github?

Thank you for your help!

EDIT: in /usr/share/gnome-shell/ I have two gresource file: gnome-shell-theme.gresource and gnome-shell-osk-layouts.gresource, is this a problem?

[nana-4]

Thanks for the info. Before telling to the maintainers of the distro, to make sure, please run the following commands and paste the logs:

gnome-shell --version

grep -c barlevel /usr/share/themes/Materia-dark/gnome-shell/gnome-shell.css

EDIT: in /usr/share/gnome-shell/ I have two gresource file: gnome-shell-theme.gresource and gnome-shell-osk-layouts.gresource, is this a problem?

It is normal and should be no problem :) All distros have the two gresource files by default.

[babba22]

Here you are:

[nana-4]

Thanks! As expected, 3.30 version seems to be installed which is incompatible with 3.28.

In the meanwhile, how can I solve this problem? Do I have to uninstall materia offered by the distribution and install from github?

Yup, that should solve this problem.

[nana-4]

After investigation, I found that materia-gtk-theme*-20181115-7-1-x86_64.eopkg packages contain only 3.30 version of gnome-shell theme. So this problem should be specific to the Solus packages.

Could you tell to the maintainers of the distro about it?

[babba22]

Thank you very much!

Sure, I'll try to report this problem to the devs :+1:

[babba22]

Problem solved :+1:

[nana-4]

@babba22 Good news. Thank you for your report! So I'm gonna close this :)