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SpongB0B

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Registered: 2022-06-01

Posts: 15

How change window border color of a theme ?

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to change the window border color of a theme that is installed with MX distribution

named mx-comfort-dark

I've been told

to edit

/usr/share/themes/mx-comfort-dark/gtk-3.0/dist/gtk-dark.css
/usr/share/themes/mx-comfort-dark/gtk-3.0/dist/gtk.css

I've edited the line with

@define-color wm_border_focused #0f56d9;

with the color that I wanted.. but nothing happen.

then I've been told to compile the theme with this command ->

cd /usr/share/themes/mx-comfort-dark/gtk-3.0/
glib-compile-resources gtk.resource.xml

So

1. Is this the correct / simpler way ?
     

2. I don't have glib-compile-resources
   and it seem not available for dw...

   apt list glib*
   
   glib-networking-common/stable,now 2.66.0-2 all [installed,automatic]
   glib-networking-services/stable,now 2.66.0-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
   glib-networking-tests/stable 2.66.0-2 amd64
   glib-networking/stable,now 2.66.0-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
   glibc-doc/stable 2.31-13+deb11u3 all
   glibc-source/stable 2.31-13+deb11u3 all

Thank you.

Last edited by SpongB0B (2022-06-03 16:14:45)

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KBar

Moderator

Registered: 2021-11-05

Posts: 433

Re: How change window border color of a theme ?

Is this theme Xfwm4-ready? What are the contents of its directory?

ls -l /usr/share/themes/mx-comfort-dark/

Last edited by KBar (2022-06-03 18:22:54)

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Xubuntu 20.04

SpongB0B

Member

Registered: 2022-06-01

Posts: 15

Re: How change window border color of a theme ?

It's look like ->

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun  2 06:52 assets
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Jun  2 06:52 cinnamon
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun  2 06:52 gtk-2.0
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Jun  2 06:52 gtk-3.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun  2 06:52 metacity-1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun  2 06:52 openbox-3
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Jun  2 06:52 unity
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun  2 06:52 xfwm4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  239 Jun  2 06:51 index.theme

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