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mustbeit

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Registered: 2024-08-05

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Thunar theme change according to tabs, partition, workspace

Hello,

I'm using latest Thunar 4.20.2

When one works, on may have different or related focus, that one wish to keep open.
Currently, the theme for Thunar is uniform whether you change: workspaces or disk partition.
How would it be, possible to change, that?
For the sake of giving an example, let's say for instance:
if workspace 1: then a default theme,
if workspace 2: then a blue theme,
if workspace 3: then a green theme

Ideally, I think it ought to be linked with XFCE itself, so that it other apps could conform to this behaviour.

Another possibility, I've been suggesting is to change according to tabs:
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/1405

Thanks

P.S. https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=76355#p76355

Last edited by mustbeit (2025-04-27 10:17:10)

eriefisher

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Re: Thunar theme change according to tabs, partition, workspace

Themes apply to the desktop. You can have a single or multiple workspaces but it's still on one desktop.

What you can do and I'm not sure how it's working right now is have a different background image on each workspace. The would differentiate it visually.

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mustbeit

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Registered: 2024-08-05

Posts: 17

Re: Thunar theme change according to tabs, partition, workspace

Themes apply to the desktop. You can have a single or multiple workspaces but it's still on one desktop.

It's what I thought.
So must be a new feature request.

What you can do and I'm not sure how it's working right now is have a different background image on each workspace. The would differentiate it visually.

Already applied, but in my practice, I don't find it relevant, because Thunar & other apps look identical across workspaces, it only works when I switch and then after a while I "forget" where I'm.
Apps are most of the time in fullscreen, so no visible background.

I get worse in other situation, such as if subject are related.
For instance one workspace is theory, the other is the case you want to solve and want to know if you need to peek into theory or not.

Last edited by mustbeit (2025-05-01 20:20:17)

CwF

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Registered: 2018-01-28

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Re: Thunar theme change according to tabs, partition, workspace

So must be a new feature request.

I'd think it's a tall order to conditionally theme Thunar, however

There is in the .css ‘.thunar infobar’ which I think is only attached to and distinguishes the root user. This may be able to be expanded for other conditions, maybe?