On 2017-08-27, Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > I'm running Mate on my C7 boxen, a desktop and a netbook.\ > > Mate comes from epel, so it's probably not a CentOS problem, but lemme > ask here in case anybody else has seen it: > > some tools (nm, pavucontrol, and possibly others I haven't noted down) > no longer have the correct formatting on screen. there are no > backgrounds, i.e., backgrounds that define areas of the screen by > shading or borders. clickable text tends to be jammed together. > pavucontrol has no sliders for any of the level controls. > > an example, at the top of pavucontrol it has no visible tabs, just the > text: > > PlaybackRecordingOutput DevicesInput DevicesConfiguration > > spaced as shown. they work when you click them, however. but since > none of the sliders are visible (and I can't find 'em by randomly > poking around with the mouse pointer) it's a little hard to use. :( > > If I can find a place to post some screenshots, I'll try the posting > a note on the epel IRC. > > Thanks in advance! Mate in epel still uses gtk2, whereas the applications you mention use gtk3. So I'd say you need to choose a theme with support for both. Adwaita is a good choice in that regard. -- Liam