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Re: [SOLVED] Is it possible to change GUI title bar color when working as root?

dummy@example.com (felixed) — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 22:13:54 +0000

Das Problem ist nicht wie gewünscht lösbar. Der Titel wird vom Fenstermanager verwaltet und der verwendet die Einstellungen des angemeldeten Nutzers.

Allerdings habe ich jetzt noch menubar und toolbar auf knallrot gesetzt und alle für mich relevanten Programme haben irgendwas davon (headerbar, menubar oder toolbar).

Meine /root/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css sieht jetzt so aus:

headerbar {
    background: #ff0000;
    color: #ffffff; 
    text-shadow: #000000;
}
headerbar:backdrop  {
    background: #800000;
    color: #404040;
    text-shadow: #000000;
} 
menubar,toolbar {
    background: #ff0000;
}

Nicht ganz so elegant wie vorgesehen, aber funktioniert.

Re: [SOLVED] Is it possible to change GUI title bar color when working as root?

dummy@example.com (felixed) — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 15:34:28 +0000

Got so far as caja and other GUI's title backgrond (for instance for theme Menta) is set by

@define-color theme_selected_bg_color #accd8a;

in /usr/share/themes/Menta/gtk-3.0/gtk-main.css .

Other entries in there then refer to theme_selected_bg_color.

Re: [SOLVED] Is it possible to change GUI title bar color when working as root?

dummy@example.com (felixed) — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 10:12:36 +0000

Little step forward.

With /root/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

headerbar {
    background: #ff0000;
    color: #ffffff; 
    text-shadow: #000000;
}
headerbar:backdrop  {
    background: #800000;
    color: #404040;
    text-shadow: #000000;
}

it works for some GUI as gedit, but not for caja. In caja there is also no effect from ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css .

Re: [SOLVED] Is it possible to change GUI title bar color when working as root?

dummy@example.com (felixed) — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 21:32:23 +0000

Xfce4 obviously reads the gtk.css of ~. I change some panel and desktop colors by that.

Maybe it's a syntax error. I wrote the same into the ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css, restarted, but the title bar didn't change. Maybe the syntax is wrong.

Is there any manual of css syntax used by xfce4? Or by gtk3?

Re: [SOLVED] Is it possible to change GUI title bar color when working as root?

dummy@example.com (Head_on_a_Stick) — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 20:11:08 +0000

felixed wrote:

/root/.config/gtk-3.0/ is empty.

Yes, root's $HOME is supposed to be empty.

felixed wrote:

I tried a gtk.css there

Oh, clever, I like it :-)

But unfortunately I forgot that Xfce doesn't read the GTK configuration files. Sorry. Try xfconf-query instead (as root).

Re: [SOLVED] Is it possible to change GUI title bar color when working as root?

dummy@example.com (felixed) — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:21:31 +0000

/root/.config/gtk-3.0/ is empty.

I tried a gtk.css there:

.titlebar {
    background: #ff0000;
    color:#000000; 
}

.titlebar:backdrop  {
    background: #a00000;
    color:#808080;
}

Not working.

With mate there's at least a comment "(as admin)" in the title.

When logging in as root (bad idea, I know) there's a warning displayed within the caja window, but the title bar is not red.

Re: [SOLVED] Is it possible to change GUI title bar color when working as root?

dummy@example.com (Head_on_a_Stick) — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 14:28:06 +0000

You could try setting a different theme for root in /root/.gtkrc-2.0 & /root/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

[SOLVED] Is it possible to change GUI title bar color when working as root?

dummy@example.com (felixed) — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 13:05:48 +0000

Chimaera, Xfce4, theme Menta.