On Sat, 8 Dec 2018, Nick Koretsky wrote: > On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 23:46:05 -0500 (EST) > Felmon Davis <davisf@...> wrote: > >> Greets! >> >> I decided to upgrade from Jessie to Stretch last night. it seems to >> have worked though there are some oddities. >> >> now VLC has grotesquely large control buttons ("Pause", etc.); the >> interface in general seems to run on a different 'theme' and anyway >> is over-large. >> >> I have tried the "forced window style" option under "preferences" but >> none of the various options but they make no different in these >> respects. maybe 'CDE' comes closest. >> >> I have purged and re-installed VLC also to no avail. >> >> I have looked at the 'themes' VLC offers. awful. just want my >> orange-colored working interface back. >> >> the only other application I've found which has undergone similar >> changes is Pan - it has a more 'pastel' shaded control set which I >> don't appreciate but can ignore. >> >> note a complication: I had Devuan installed and just did the Stretch >> update but not sure of its relevance (thus I mention it). >> > > vlc is qt5 app. You need to install qt5-style-plugins. After that you can > force theme in vlc setting. There is no qt3 of course, but there is gtk2, > and gtk2 theme is not hard to configure. The other solution is qt5ct, but > its not in stretch. You can build the buster version with apt-src. I installed qt5-style-plugins; gtk2 is already available, indeed, I've tried setting 'force windows style' to this toolset. still big buttons. overlarge 'window' for VLC in general though font-size is ok. f. -- Felmon Davis