Enable GTK3 Theming on Wine

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Wine has an option for GTK theming if you use the wine-staging version.

I've installed GTK3 on macOS through:

brew install gtk+3

However, the option remains disabled. Is there a way this can be done on macOS?

Best Answer

As I’d said on Winehq, the only way to enable gtk themes required that wine-staging is built from source with this library available.

As you didn’t provide the version of macOS your running there’s little more information that can be provided, also from what was posted on Winehq you seem reluctant to compile wine from source making this impossible to achieve.

MacPorts

It is possible to install older editions of software using MacPorts. The following article explains how, How to install an older version of a port.

The example given by the article using this notation for the tcl package:

sudo port activate tcl @8.4.16_0

Try this for the wine package:

sudo port activate wine @1.5.8

HomeBrew

Alternatively, consider installing using the HomeBrew project. This article by David Baumgold walks through the steps required, Installing Wine on Mac OS X.

brew is also able to install a specific version of a package, see Homebrew install specific version of formula?

tar.bz2

If you want to manually install wine from the downloaded tar.bz2 source, follow the steps in Wine User Guide: 2.3. Installing Wine from source.

This approach will require installing the Xcode command line tools and dealing with dependencies. Because of this, I highly recommend using brew or another pre-built package approach.

osxwinebuilder

An open source project called osxwinebuilder attempts to ease the process of building wine from source. This project may be helpful as it claims:

The goal of this project is to provide easy-to-use scripts for cleanly building and installing Wine and its prerequisite software into a self-contained directory hierarchy on Mac OS X.

Emulators

If you encounter problems compiling from source, consider using a PC emulator such as VMware Fusion, Parallels, or Virtual Box. All these can run Windows on your Mac and thus run Lingea Lexicon 5 for you. In addition, VMware Fusion and Parallels both offer commercial support should you encounter problems.

Where does Homebrew install wine

Brew should install the wine in /usr/local/Cellar. Have you ran brew update && brew upgrade wine? I always use the GUI (Wineskin) which can be installed via brew cask. However, I also have the CLI and it works fine.