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date    = "2023-11-28T23:21:59+00:00"
lastmod = "2023-11-30T00:52:18+00:00"
tags    = [ "linux" ]
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Many fortnights ago, I foolishly thought writing a
{{< abbr GTK3 "GIMP ToolKit 3" >}} theme from scratch would be easy. It was
mostly {{< abbr CSS "Cascading Style Sheets" >}} unlike GTK2. About 40 minutes
in came a horrifying realization: there's fundamentally (and definitively) no way
to write a consistent theme that works reliably with every application. The
minor upside was a working (and somewhat accessible) wireframe theme and a basic
understanding of [debugging](https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/running.html#interactive-debugging).
The end.

```shell
GTK_DEBUG=interactive firefox
```