hi sorry for the late reply. been ill in bed for over a week and not had the energy for anything at all.
your script works fine and i have an arc theme with adapta buttons. however this is not at all what i wanted. all i want is a method for extracting gresource files, arc or any other that i might want to change, that works, including the (original) max/min/close buttons. this is still eluding me. or to put it another way, i wish themers would stop using gresource files so that i can mod any theme at will