On 2021-01-18 14:08:31 E. Liddell wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 09:01:54 -0800 > > William Morder via tde-users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I did try to accomplish this by going through the Trinity Control Center > > / Appearance / Colors, but nothing happens to my non-TDE apps, so far as > > I can tell. (Actually, I am only guessing, from what I remember; my TCC > > screen has been frozen now for a couple hours. See attachment.) > > > > Some of my apps refuse to change colors, even though they used to behave > > like I want (in Jessie, that is, before I upgraded to Devuan Beowulf). I > > seem to recall that E.Liddell, or maybe Nik, offered some css tricks to > > do something like this? The main thing is that I don't want to look at a > > white screen, but I prefer to keep my own color scheme, not to use one of > > those ready-made themes. > > Non-TDE applications will mostly be using one of three widget toolkits: > GTK2, GTK3, or QT5. > > The easiest way I've found to theme QT5 is to use qt5ct. Your distro may > have it packaged, or get it from https://sourceforge.net/projects/qt5ct/ . > > GTK2 and GTK3 can be themed by using gtk-qt-engine and/or > gtk3-qt-engine , which are optional TDE packages. They're known to > cause problems with some systems, though. Try gtk3-qt-engine first. > > The other option for theming GTK2 and GTK3 is to edit some text files. > The theme file for GTK2 is .gtkrc-2.0, in the user's home directory, and > it uses a proprietary format. GTK3 uses one or more CSS files located in > ~/.config/gtk-3.0/ . Unfortunately, figuring out exactly what to do with > these files is like pulling hen's teeth, or at least I was never able to > find any documentation with the list of GTK widget names on it. I had to > hunt through a bunch of downloaded styles to get things sort-of working, > and GTK3 is, in addition, a moving target to some extent. > > I have my own hand-edited GTK2 and GTK3 theming files (set up for > white text on black/dark blue) that I can offer as examples if you need > them, although both styles are slightly flawed. > > E. Liddell There are also gnome-control-center and gnome-tweaks, which might be helpful. Leslie -- ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
