2. Acceptable GTK themes

   When it comes to GTK themes, there are usually two problems.

   1. The theme doesn't keep up with GTK changes
   2. The theme is ugly

   While the latter one might be subjective, you can't really argue against theme incompatibility. There are only a handful of themes which keep up with the GTK …

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3. Smooth transition between LightDM and Openbox

   The ugly transition between LigthDM, or more specifically its GTK greeter, and Openbox is kind of annoying. A gray background pops up shortly before the desktop wallpaper gets drawn (assuming you use a wallpaper).

   The ugly transition in action:

   Digging around, I found out that Openbox actually runs x/e …

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4. Gedit, OverlayScrolling and DBus

   GTK3's overlay scrollbars can be quite annoying. Especially if the theme you're using isn't keeping up with the latest changes and is barely functional. Fortunately, there's an easy way to disable them by using the GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING environment variable.

   My Openbox environment had some trouble with that. I noticed that depending …

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