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Scratching my own itch and inspired by the fine themes once posted for MX17, I have written a little shell script that creates an altered copy of the stock MX greybird theme, with your chosen "highlight" color (background of selected text or items).
From my limited testing it should work on MX17 and MX19 - let me know otherwise.

Just unzip, render executable and invoke from the CLI. There is one dependency on the "sassc" package which needs to be present in order to recompile the GTK3 bits. The result is a theme directory under the .themes sub-folder of your home folder. Once created, you can activate it using the regular XFCE "appearance" tool.

EDIT 2019-11-03
The script has been expanded to accept either

• an hexadecimal color in the format #rrggbb
• a x11/web color name, preceded by @ (e.g: @DarkSlateBlue)
  note that most web colors seem to work, i am unsure which exact list GTK+ understands

The foreground (text) color is unchanged from the original white, so best results are achieved with dark(ish) background colors.

Cool! Needs some user testing ASAP, hope you get it (I'm travelling ATM).

Everything looks good on MX 18.3 for me. I made one of your colors with the script and added one of my own.

Thanks!

Thanks for testing, mikeswifty. I only noticed your post now as i do not login that often to the board.
Thanks also for the screenshot which i was too lazy to provide.
I am mostly using plasma myself (5.12 from Neptine) and just wanted that "steel" hilite color for the occasional GTK app.
In adjusting the GTK[23] theme I noticed it shouldn't be that complicated to automate,
and dexy's nice color selection served as a base, with the goal of being able to generate themes for MX19, too.
I hope more people will find the script useful.

Revised script supports any web color as argument; see original post.