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bin

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Registered: 2019-02-26

Posts: 2

Fill colour of mouse file selection "rubber rectangle" in Thunar

Hello

I'm baffled by an issue with the 'fill' colour of the selection rectangle when using a mouse in thunar to select a group of files/folders. It seems to be very dark.

Can anyone please tell me where this is configured? I assume it is in the Appearance gtk somewhere, but where I do not know.

I am trying to find a way to make it lighter in colour.

This is using Debian Stretch Thunar 1.6.15 with - for example - Clearlooks-Phenix

Thank you for any advice.

Last edited by bin (2019-02-26 08:19:20)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,491

Re: Fill colour of mouse file selection "rubber rectangle" in Thunar

Hello and welcome.

Since that is the gtk2 version of thunar, try using a snippet like this in ~/.gtkrc-2.0 (create the file if it doesn't exist):

style "my-iconview"
{
   fg[NORMAL] = "#ffff00"
}
widget_class "*ExoIconView*" style "my-iconview"

...adjust "#ffff00" (yellow) to suit.

You'll need to close and restart all thunar instances (including the daemon), or log out and back in again, for it to take effect.

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bin

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Registered: 2019-02-26

Posts: 2

Re: Fill colour of mouse file selection "rubber rectangle" in Thunar

That's magic - thank you very much indeed!