How to fix Numix theme on Ubuntu 14.04

Question

I'm using the Numix-bluish-3.16 theme on Ubuntu 14.04. However, the visual experience is not very consistent. Some examples:

Is it an incompatibility issue with my GTK version?

Answer 1

Fry, try to install it from various sources - you probably need to find a gtk3.10 compatible version of the theme (at a guess from the 14.04 gnome-shell version):

• The Numix PPA should have a package that works for trusty:

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:numix/ppa
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install numix-gtk-theme
  

• Or try the zip files from it's Github page and/or it's DeviantArt page, and extract them to ~/.local/share/themes or ~/.themes or /usr/share/themes.

If you cannot get a working version, you should report it as a bug. This can be done on it's GitHub page - you need to include your ubuntu version, desktop environment, how you installed it, and the names of applications that have issues (if you are having problems with Java apps, first try this.)