3.24.37

New GTK3 upstream release: 3.24.37. See what's new.

3.24.36

New GTK3 upstream release: 3.24.36. See what's new.

⚠️ Arch Linux users: lib32-gtk3-classic has been dropped. See this comment for reasons. On the upside, building this package from AUR will be 2x faster.

3.24.35

New GTK3 upstream release: 3.24.35. See what's new.

3.24.34-2

• Remove "fixes__atk-bridge-errors.patch" as it is redundant (#79)

⚠️ GTK+3 applications will be unable to open after upgrading glib2 to 2.74.0 because of this patch.

Arch / rolling release users: Upgrade your gtk3-classic soon to avoid breakage before glib2 2.74.0 lands in the stable repository.

3.24.34

New GTK3 upstream release: 3.24.34. See what's new.

3.24.33

• gtk3 is now 3.24.33. See what's new.

3.24.31-3

• Add patch to remove dead keys underline (#37)
  • Restores GTK+3 behaviour before 3.24.25, and is more consistent with other platforms/toolkits.

3.24.31-2

The patch "Allow windows to be transparent whenever a compositor is enabled" caused emacs to crash (#66)

• This feature is now only enabled by setting the GTK_RELAX_RGBA environment variable.

See also: 3.24.31

3.24.20 for Ubuntu 20.04

A backport release of GTK 3.24.20 for Ubuntu 20.04 ("Focal") using the patches available as of Feb 2, 2022.

These changes were made in a separate branch, but now tagged for posterity. Thank you to @N0rbert for helping with the original packaging for Ubuntu (#44, #43)

Packages can be found in the PPA at https://launchpad.net/~lah7/+archive/ubuntu/gtk3-classic/+packages

3.24.31

Upstream

• gtk3 is now 3.24.31. See what's new.

New Patches

• Allow themes to draw treeview rows in alternating colours (#42, #55, #57)
  • To use this, an additional step to add some CSS is required.
• Add patch to relax RGBA visual rules for windows (#45)
  • This allows windows to be transparent whenever a compositor is enabled.
• Add class to status bar for themes (#50)
• Add GTK_BACKDROP=1 to enable backdrop state without enabling CSD (#56)
• Add GTK_NO_TAB_SCROLL to turn off tab scrolling
  • Pluma, for example, would scroll twice. Prepend this in your application launcher to exclude for certain programs.

Thanks to @thesquash, @eviltak and @luigifab for contributing patches!

Ubuntu Packages

Users of Ubuntu 20.04, 21.10 and 22.04 can enjoy these patches too! Special thanks to @N0rbert for the help!

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lah7/gtk3-classic
sudo apt dist-upgrade

Available for these architectures: amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc and ppc64el. Note that, if you wish to uninstall, see the README on using ppa-purge, as these packages are based on the default gtk+3.0 package.