Thunar theme in tree view, set a background color for selected folder

mustbeit · 2024-08-08 14:58:10

Hello,

Running Manjaro XFCE latest.
Apperance>Style=Matcha-dark-aliz

Open Thunar, see if you have a tree view on the left pane.
Select a folder.
This selected folder is not highlighted with background color.
See https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/1404

How to add background color to the selected folder in tree view?

Thanks

ToZ · 2024-08-08 21:28:09

Add:

.thunar .sidebar .view  *:selected { background-color: #f0544c; color: black }

...to ~/.config/gtk3.0/gtk.css (create the file if it doesn't exist).

Also open a ticket with the theme maker to consider making this change directly to the theme.

mustbeit · 2024-08-09 05:08:03

Super.
Any way to apply the theme without logging out?

ToZ · 2024-08-09 09:50:15

In this case, you can just quit thunar and restart it:

thunar -q

mustbeit · 2024-08-09 10:52:33

In case I change theme(e.g. matcha-dark-aliz to matcha-dark-sea), is there a way to reference/bases colors, something as such:

.thunar .sidebar .view  *:selected { background-color: baseBackgroundColor; color: baseFontColor; }
.thunar .standard-view .view *:hover{ background-color: baseBackgroundColor; }

Any recommanded URL for learning to theme xfce?

ToZ · 2024-08-09 12:55:18

mustbeit wrote:

In case I change theme(e.g. matcha-dark-aliz to matcha-dark-sea), is there a way to reference/bases colors, something as such:
.thunar .sidebar .view  *:selected { background-color: baseBackgroundColor; color: baseFontColor; }
.thunar .standard-view .view *:hover{ background-color: baseBackgroundColor; }

Yes. At the bottom of the the default matcha-dark-aliz's gtk-dark.css file it "@define-color"s the color codes that are being used. (also https://github.com/vinceliuice/Matcha-g … .css#L9962. In this case, you could use "@theme_selected_bg_color".

Any recommanded URL for learning to theme xfce?

Search these forums as there is a lot of information already documented here. Also, read through this post as I've documented what resources exist and provide a bit of a walkthrough on how to find the css elements/styles.

Xfce Forum

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#1 2024-08-08 14:58:10

Thunar theme in tree view, set a background color for selected folder

#2 2024-08-08 21:28:09

Re: Thunar theme in tree view, set a background color for selected folder

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