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begtognen

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Registered: 2021-10-03

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[SOLVED] customizing highlight color behind selected email message

OS: Linux Mint 21 XFCE

Claws Email is drawing from the theme (selected in Appearance) for the highlight color. In the message list, the text is black (this doesn't seem to be customizable) and hard to read when highlighted.

I'm using Mint-Y-Aqua. I've tried every theme I have, and all are too dark against the black text. (I find dark themes very hard to read, so avoid them.)

Ideally I'd be able to change a setting within Mint-Y-Aqua for a lighter highlight color.

Thanks for your help.

Last edited by begtognen (2023-12-03 12:54:36)

ToZ

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Re: [SOLVED] customizing highlight color behind selected email message

In claws-mail 4.0.0, the one shipped with Mint 21, the program doesn't provide any style classes to affect a change via CSS.

In claws-mail 4.2.0 (latest version), you can use:

#mainwindow #summaryview_sctree:selected {background-color: red}

...to affect that element. Change "red" to whatever colour you want to use.

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begtognen

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Re: [SOLVED] customizing highlight color behind selected email message

Hi ToZ - Thanks so much. I really like Claws Mail 4.0.0 and am not going to update - any chance there's a way to change the highlight color within the theme, for example Mint-Y-Aqua?

ToZ

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Re: [SOLVED] customizing highlight color behind selected email message

After some investigation, it looks like claws 4.0.0 is affected by the ".gtkstyle-fallback:selected" element. Search your theme's "gtk-3.0/gtk.css" file for that element and make the change to the "background-color" setting. You'll need to change away and back to your theme, and restart claws, for it to take effect. I'm not sure the effect it might have on other elements in the GUI.

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begtognen

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Re: [SOLVED] customizing highlight color behind selected email message

ToZ - This worked like a charm, thanks so much for your time and help.