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I found that the GTK theme I use also has a settings.ini file, which sets gtk-primary-button-warps-slider to false. I wouldn't expect it to take precedence over the user specific file, but it does....
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Quasímodo
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2022-02-14T20:51:14Z (almost 3 years ago)
I found that the GTK theme I use also has a `settings.ini` file, which sets _gtk-primary-button-warps-slider_ to false. I wouldn't expect it to take precedence over the user specific file, but it does.
It is easy to edit a single file for your current theme; If you want to do it for all themes in one go, for convenience here is a command to find all `settings.ini` files for all your themes and enforce the _true_ value for that option:
find "$HOME"/.themes "$XDG_DATA_HOME" -type f -name 'settings.ini' \
-exec sed -i.bak '/gtk-primary-button-warps-slider/s/=.*/=true/' {} +
It creates `settings.ini.bak` backup files, so in case something goes wrong you can revert it.
Also there is the system wide `/usr/share/themes` directory, but these are supposed to be intact since they are packaged by your GNU Linux distribution. Nothing prevents you from editing those files too with root access, though.
[1]: https://wiki.parabola.nu/GTK%2B#Configuration