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I'm trying to change the color of the window border for active windows, as well as the color of selected items in menus and other UI elements. Searching around the web, the only way I can see to do this is to modify the theme files in /usr/share/themes. The problem I have with this solution is the border is the exact same shade of blue (#15539E) among most of the themes I select in Settings -> Window Manager -> Themes. Furthermore, when looking at existing themes files, I see no reference to this color. If I pick a theme that does not use this default blue, Fbx for example uses #8EBDD8, I can find the color #8EBDD8 specified in the theme files for this theme. This is further evidence that there is a default that few themes choose to override.
I'd rather change this default that than modify the theme files like all the results of my web searches suggest to do. Where is this default specified? I've performed a recursive grep through my entire system for "15539E" and it has returned no results. Is this default hard-coded into Xfce? Is it possible to override?
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I believe XFWM themes use raster images (.png files), which you would have to edit/replace. Take a look for example under /usr/share/themes/Default/xfwm4/ and you should see a lot of .png files there - bottom-active.png etc.
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I believe XFWM themes use raster images (.png files), which you would have to edit/replace. Take a look for example under /usr/share/themes/Default/xfwm4/ and you should see a lot of .png files there - bottom-active.png etc.
Not in Default, but I did find some images in /usr/share/themes/Adwaita-dark/gtk-2.0/assets. Some of them do have this default blue, but not all of them. The checkboxes, for example, have a transparent background where I would normally see this blue in an actual settings dialog.
Unfortunately, this means if I do find a way to change this default, some elements will remain blue unless I change the images. However, I'd still like to know how to change this default.
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Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2022-06-10 16:49:09)
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The gtk-2.0 folder is not part of an XFWM theme and is not relevant to window decorations.
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