Changing border color of window [Solved]

[SpongeBOB]

Hi everyone,

How can we change the border color of the window ? (here blue)

MX-21


Thanks

[Huckleberry Finn]

You need to play with css files. First take a copy of the original one (even the directory) :

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

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

search for this (color code) :

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0f56d9

Probably this line (#89) is the related one:

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@define-color wm_border_focused #0f56d9;

____________________

You can do this: Copy the whole directory and rename, change the name to yours (say: to Bob or MX-Sponge :D) in

/usr/share/themes/mx-comfort-dark/index.theme

and play with it, do all experiments there. It'll appear with that name in settings :)


You can also (even better) first create a .themes directory in home, than put/create "your" theme there, and make all experiments freely :)

[SpongeBOB]

Thank you @Huckleberry Finn
I have made the changes but unfortunately it's not working

drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4.0K Oct 18 23:48 mx-comfort
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4.0K Oct 18 23:48 mx-comfort-dark
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4.0K Dec 10 13:44 mx-comfort-dark-BOB
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Oct 18 23:48 mx-comfort-dark-thick-border
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Oct 18 23:48 mx-comfort-thick-border

[Desktop Entry]
Type=X-GNOME-Metatheme
Name=mx-comfort-dark-BOB
Comment=
Encoding=UTF-8

[X-GNOME-Metatheme]
Name=mx-comfort-dark-BOB
GtkTheme=mx-comfort-dark-BOB
IconTheme=mx-comfort-dark
MetacityTheme=mx-comfort-dark-BOB

And I changed the color of the css variable wm_border_focused in
/usr/share/themes/mx-comfort-dark-BOB/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
/usr/share/themes/mx-comfort-dark-BOB/gtk-3.0/gtk-dark.css

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89	@define-color wm_border_focused #fff000;

But the border still remain blue.. any ideas ?

Bob

[Huckleberry Finn]

After saving changes just select another theme from Appearance, then re-select that (to take effect).

If still not: Same lines (same files) in the original (non-dark) folder:

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

[Huckleberry Finn]

And I changed the color of the css variable wm_border_focused in
/usr/share/themes/mx-comfort-dark-CS/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
/usr/share/themes/mx-comfort-dark-CS/gtk-3.0/gtk-dark.css

...

But the border still remain blue.. any ideas ?

Bob

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

[dolphin_oracle]

you can't *just* change those files anyway. the standard mx-comfort files are compiled to reduce memory consumption. so you need to update the resource files after modifying the css.

I *think* this i the command

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glib-compile-resources gtk.resource.xml

executed from the gtk3.0 folder of the theme.

[SpongeBOB]

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

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

@Huckleberry Finn sorry it was from another test, but the directory is indeed mx-comfort-dark-BOB

[SpongeBOB]

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I *think* this i the command

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glib-compile-resources gtk.resource.xml

executed from the gtk3.0 folder of the theme.

Thank you @dolphin_oracle .

Unfortunately I got a problem when I try to dw the libglib2 ->

root@MX21b:/usr/share/themes/mx-comfort-dark-BOB/gtk-3.0# glib-compile-resources gtk.gresource.xml
Command 'glib-compile-resources' not found, but can be installed with:
apt install libglib2.0-dev-bin

root@MX21b:/usr/share/themes/mx-comfort-dark-BOB/gtk-3.0# apt install libglib2.0-dev-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libglib2.0-dev-bin
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libglib2.0-dev-bin'

Moderator: color removed, please stick to regular color fonts, thank you.

[Huckleberry Finn]

Just btw: you know this one is a bad habit: root@MX21

:)

[dolphin_oracle]

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I *think* this i the command

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glib-compile-resources gtk.resource.xml

executed from the gtk3.0 folder of the theme.

Thank you @dolphin_oracle .

Unfortunately I got a problem when I try to dw the libglib2 ->

root@MX21b:/usr/share/themes/mx-comfort-dark-BOB/gtk-3.0# glib-compile-resources gtk.gresource.xml
Command 'glib-compile-resources' not found, but can be installed with:
apt install libglib2.0-dev-bin

root@MX21b:/usr/share/themes/mx-comfort-dark-BOB/gtk-3.0# apt install libglib2.0-dev-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libglib2.0-dev-bin
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libglib2.0-dev-bin'

Moderator: color removed, please stick to regular color fonts, thank you.

welp it tells you how to fix it.