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tomsk

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Registered: 2016-12-17

Posts: 224

Change background color of GNOME topbar

Hello,

there is my desktop and extensions: https://imgur.com/a/ePthVQ7

I use default GNOME Shell theme, and theme for Applications is called WhiteSUr-light-solid and as you can see I have classic black topbar, but I would like to change it to #242424, without extensions, I find it pointless to install extension to change only 1 color.

I don't know if I am correct but I found somewhere to edit this file /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-classic.css, so I found #panel and changed it's background color from #000 to #242424, restarted PC and nothing happened.

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I use several linux distros like: Archlinux, Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint

darash

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Registered: 2021-09-15

Posts: 4

Re: Change background color of GNOME topbar

gresource in gnome-shell

tomsk

Member

Registered: 2016-12-17

Posts: 224

Re: Change background color of GNOME topbar

So it will be overwrited with next GNOME update? So should I just copy GNOME Shell theme, modify it and save it as custom theme?

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I use several linux distros like: Archlinux, Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint

aaronrancsik

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Registered: 2020-01-27

Posts: 4

Re: Change background color of GNOME topbar

I use this modify it to your needs.
Create:

~/.themes/grey/gnome-shell/gnome-shell.css

Content:

#panel {
      background-color: #353535;
      /*background-color: #15539e;*/
      box-shadow: 0px 1px 0px #222;
}

Select it in Tweaks app

Last edited by aaronrancsik (2021-11-20 13:16:48)