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Hi everyone. The screenshot pretty much explains what this post is about. The calculator window contains the actual theme that's installed on my setup right now. I'm not exactly sure how that works but that theme happens to be BlackMATE and it's my favorite dark theme of all becaue it's very eye friendly. BlackMATE appears to have the Theme i.e. Style & Window decoration all rolled into one. So when you look in the window decorations, there's no BlackMATE there. For some weird reasons, some applications (very few) utilize the default window decoration of BlackMATE which is installed and the desired decoration, while other applications (most) use the Arc-Dark Window decorations which I have chosen from the Settings/Window Decoration options. I would really like for all of my applications to have the same BlackMATE window decoration, but that's strictly available in the Window Styles section only.
Any thoughts or ideas on how that might be accomplished (without switching to the Mate desktop)?
Except for the window decoration, I like my current XFCE exactly as it is. That would be my only desired change ...

More information on the BlackMATE theme available here:
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-th ... /BlackMATE

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it looks like the blackMATE folks have not set up a xfwm window manager theme, which isn't surprising given the name of the theme. which means that yeah, your out of luck. I suggest that since you can set the window manager theme seperate from the gtk theme (which is what blackMATE is), then you may be able to find a similar theme to match into blackMATE.

the reason some apps have the desired decoration is that they are using client-side decorations rather than the window manager decorations. which means the apps are theming their own window decorations rather than look to the window manager, and they pick up the decorations from the gtk3 theme. blackMATE in your case.