23 Jun
2018
23 Jun
'18
11:27 p.m.
On Saturday 23 June 2018 15:46:39 E. Liddell wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 16:50:26 -0700
William Morder <doctor_contendo(a)zoho.com> wrote:
Okay, I've attached both my GTK2 and GTK3 style files. I also tossed in a
screenshot showing what Seamonkey looks like when themed with this mess
(the screwed-up tab bar is due to a malfunctioning browser extension,
though). I guarantee it is not white. ;)
.gtkrc-2.0 is a GTK2 style. Pale Moon (as of 27.9.3) and SeaMonkey (as of
2.49.7.0) still use GTK2. Place this file in your user's home directory.
Unfortunately, it is not neat or tidy and has colour definitions scattered
all over the file. It also needs the Industrial GTK2 "engine" in order to
function properly. For me, Industrial is located in the package
x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.20.2. I don't know where it may be for your
distro.
gtk.css is a GTK3 style, and you would place it in .config/gtk-3.0/ . It's
somewhat more neatly written, with all the colour definitions at the top.
The style is mildly skeuomorphic if functioning properly (slightly raised
borders around buttons, etc.) I have a separate settings.ini file in that
directory, but I don't think it's relevant.
Oh, and if you have any other files of the form .gtkrc-2.0-x or similar in
your home directory, rename them to get them out of the way.
E. Liddell
Thanks, I do appreciate it. I would hate to do a reinstallation for only some
silly glitches. And messing round with your config files will save me a lot
of time. I appreciate your hard work, and sharing it. You will get your
reward in heaven, if not on earth.
;-)
Bill
On Friday 22 June 2018 14:30:09 E. Liddell
wrote:
What those checkboxes do (or at least, what the TDE one used to do) is
write an additional configuration for GTK widgets that tries to give them
similar settings to your QT widgets. Unchecking them should cause the
system to revert to the normal GTK theming system, which can then be messed
with to produce more reliable results.
On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:17:34 -0700
William Morder <doctor_contendo(a)zoho.com> wrote:
I already did that. I checked and unchecked them numerous times; checked
one but not the other, restarted after changing them, etc.; but no
changes. TDE
Trinity Control Center/Colors
x Apply colors to non-TDE applications
KDE4
System Settings/Application Appearance/Colors/Options
x Apply colors to non-KDE4 applications
I don't so much care if they use the KDE4 settings or the TDE color
settings, just so long as it's not white. This isn't just that I hate
that my pretty desktop is spoiled; I started using these settings
because a white screen triggers a migraine - especially when I am
working late at night in a dark room. I impose dark screen settings
on my default browsers and other applications, too, for this reason.
Also, there is a practical reason: whenever I see a white screen,
this usually reminds me that I have opened that application as root,
so that I am sure to be careful I don't really mess up or delete
stuff.
Yeah, sounds about right--I've been setting up my desktops with white
text on black/blue for more than twenty years for similar reasons.
Try unchecking those two boxes you mention first. Then create a file
.gtkrc-2.0 in your user's home directory and put the following in it:
gtk-color-scheme = "bg_color: #000044\nfg_color: #fff\nbase_color:
#000\ntext_color: #fff\nselected_bg_color: #0ff\nselected_fg_color:
#000\ntooltip_bg_color: #0ff\ntooltip_fg_color: #000"
If that causes an abrupt colour change in your browser chrome, it
should be easy enough to work it into a more standard colour scheme by
adjusting the hex. If not, we may have a little more work to do (my
file is actually a lot more extensive and defines a variation on the
standard Industrial style, because that was the easiest way to get
usable scrollbars with such dark colours).
Styling GTK3 is not that easy, unfortunately--it took me just under 400
lines of CSS to get something I could live with. I can hand my file
over to you to play with if it turns out you need it (the colour
information is exposed at the top, so fairly easy to change).
Yes, please. From what you have given me here, it looks like something I
could use. I could just change it to suit my own needs. And 400 lines
doesn't scare me.