On Sat, 15 Dec 2018, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2018 schrieb Felmon Davis:
>> greets!
>>
>> don't know if it's related to Stretch - I recently upgraded from
>> Jessie (now somewhat to my regret) - but I did an update of Firefox
>> via the Mozilla online update.
>>
>> subsequently (and as an effect?) Firefox lost vertical scrollbars. I
>> tried various things with the themes (unsystematically) and now have a
>> circumstance where I get:
>>
>> "GTK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same
>> process is not supported"
>>
>> when I try to start Firefox, Pan and Google-Chrome-Stable. online
>> googling has so far yielded nothing useful.
>>
>> I assume I have some combination of Desktop 'effects' which clash. I'm
>> guessing. I can list various things but perhaps I'll wait for wiser
>> guidance.
>>
>> I will say I have:
>>
>> Redmond as GTK2 Style
>> Use my TDE Style in GTK3 apps
>> GTK@ Fonts uses Times New Roman
>> Decorations: Plastik
>>
>> (btw I still have the issue of menu items playing hide-and-seek in
>> OpenOffice.)
>>
>> fjd
>>
>>
>
> As far as I can tell GTK3 and GNOME are broken by design. I remember 
> I had these missing vertial scrollbars some time back, I solved the 
> issue with "lxappearance", setting the theme to "Clearlooks" and 
> removing of all gtk3 themes.

this seems a succinct description of what I ended up doing, viz 
removing gtk3 stuff. now all is peaceful again.

don't have lxappearance - that belongs to the LXDE dialect? will leave 
as is for now. enough "fun".

fjd

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Felmon Davis