Is there an easy way to change colors in themes?

ka9qlq · 2010-09-26 02:36:13

Is there a non cryptic way to play with themes? Maybe (gasp) a GUI?
Thanks
Alvin

etnlWings · 2010-09-26 09:33:17

No GUI but if you've got a recent and decently written Gtk+ theme, you can change the colours relatively simply. Just open ~/.themes/theme name/gtk-2.0/gtkrc in a text editor and near the top of the file, you'll find a line that reads:

gtk_color_scheme="fg_color:#a0a0a0\nbg_color:#161616\nbase_color:#454545\ntext_color:#50d000\nselected_bg_color:#282828\nselected_fg_color:#ffffff\ntooltip_bg_color:#303031\ntooltip_fg_color:#ffffff"

These are the eight variables the Gnome colour-picker-thingy reads from. Just copy that line and #comment one of them out for backup purposes.

Html colour notations are relatively simple: #rrggbb = red, green and blue, with an extended numerical base system of 0-9, A-F. If you don't want to do it in your head, just open a Gtk+ colour picker dialogue (like the one for picking your desktop background) and copy the resulting values from there.

ka9qlq · 2010-09-26 21:01:38

OK, thanks.....Seems a GUI wouldn't be such a big thing, like you said they got the hard part don with the color picker.
Alvin

ka9qlq · 2010-09-27 00:55:10

Hay (side note) I was playing with the window manager setting and don't know which Decoration style I picked, but it sent xfce into a autorestart loop. I'm in kde now...... can't get the window manager to change it from kde soooooo you wouldn't know what cryptic file I need to edit to change it would you?
Alvin

etnlWings · 2010-09-27 04:19:45

Probably best just to clear ~/.cache/sessions/

ka9qlq · 2010-09-27 13:02:59

No go. Any ideas?
Alvin

etnlWings · 2010-09-27 13:48:45

Try clearing/moving ~/.cache/Xfce4/, ~/..config/Xfce4*

ka9qlq · 2010-09-27 19:52:45

still no joy :-( :cry: why can't this be an easy fix?
Alvin

ka9qlq · 2010-09-28 01:58:25

Shouldn't there be a .conf or rc file somewhere to change?
Alvin

SantaFe · 2010-09-28 02:45:12

ka9qlq wrote:

still no joy :-( :cry: why can't this be an easy fix?
Alvin

Maybe this might help: http://forum.xfce.org/index.php?topic=5495.0

etnlWings · 2010-09-28 06:54:00

SantaFe wrote:

ka9qlq wrote:
still no joy :-( :cry: why can't this be an easy fix?
Alvin
Maybe this might help: http://forum.xfce.org/index.php?topic=5495.0

If he followed my instructions, he's already [re]moved the entire Xfce4 and Xfce4-session folders in ~/.config/

Clearly something else it wrong.

ka9qlq · 2010-09-28 12:12:41

Ya but what? I'm wondering if uninstalling xfce is the only fix. Where are the window managers stored? /usr/share/xfce?
Alvin

etnlWings · 2010-09-28 12:30:39

The xfwm themes are stored in /usr/share/themes/, local ones in ~/.themes/
The xfwm4 binary is stored in /usr/bin/xfwm4

I'm thinking this is more than just xfwm4 now, though. You might want to try reinstalling several of the core xfce packages, like xfce4-session.

ka9qlq · 2010-09-28 14:59:08

And it was as easy as moving all but one theme to a temp dir and log into xfce and here I am. I moved the themes back after. I still have no clue where the window manager theme choice is stored.
Alvin

etnlWings · 2010-09-28 15:12:42

~/.config/Xfce4/xfconf/per-channel-xml/xfwm4.xml, IIRC.

ka9qlq · 2010-09-29 13:30:28

There is no xfwm4.xml on my system
Alvin

etnlWings · 2010-09-29 13:55:42

Well then either you haven't changed any of the default settings yet, or something is very wrong. I'd suggest starting a thread in the general part of the forum, as I appear to be the only one reading this thread and I'm shit out of ideas.

ka9qlq · 2010-09-29 16:00:57

Well your ideas helped me a lot and I thank you
Alvin

M.Calvin · 2010-10-04 06:05:13

hey ...
i can not find the thread in general topic ???
how did you do it . reply plz
thanks in advance .

M.Calvin · 2010-10-04 06:08:47

where i can found colour picker dialogue . . . ???
needs to do some experiments .

etnlWings · 2010-10-04 08:21:20

Settings>Desktop>Background tab>click on the little coloured squares..

Fabion · 2010-10-14 05:26:07

I have same problem but cant understand clearly your goodness ?????

Samson · 2010-10-18 06:14:51

hello guys..
thanks for sharing information..

gnomiik · 2011-08-30 20:47:03

download gnome-color-choose package.

Use tabs global colors, and buttons. The rest dont really work, but these are the most important.

gnomiik · 2011-08-30 20:48:49

sry... gnome-color-chooser

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