A Beginner "How To" for gtkrc themes.

[10Digits]

After digging through so many sites for gtk themes ur post was most helpful...trying to mod clearlooks mettalico....an already perfect looking theme.


Anyways found a software called The Widget Laboratory...it shows what changes you have done to the current theme instantly...which encouraged me to use it as I am uncomfortable with codes that last more than a page.
More about it....check out this URL..http://www.ohloh.net/p/twl

PS I think you may know about this software already but i wanted tomention it in this post anyways....

[Exodist]

The OP of this thread did try to describe how to mod a theme, but he left out lots a valuable information.

You can find the best information here http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/Tutorials

[Minsky]

Hi, I'm new to altering themes and I hope that someone will be able to help me. I'm using Karmic with ATI drivers, Compiz installed and Extra Effects enabled. Is there a way to alter the transparency of the 3 main menu backgrounds (Applications,Places,System), whilst they're opened? I know that you can change the transparency of the whole lot with the Opacity settings in Compiz, and that I can alter the background colour in the gtkrc file, but I just want to alter the background transparency of the menus whilst leaving the text intact. What I'm after is for the menus, when displayed, to merge with the wallpaper with only an outline and the menu items text displayed. Am I right in thinking that a colour's alpha setting alters its transparency level and if so, where would I apply the setting in the gtkrc file to get the effect that I'm after?

[Minsky]

Can anyone help me out with this?

[crimesaucer]

Can anyone help me out with this?

The only thing I can say is check out the RGBA murrine thermes that Cimi makes and hope for these themes one day:

http://www.cimitan.com/blog/wp-conte...ine-170208.png
http://www.cimitan.com/blog/wp-content/murrine_rgba.png
http://www.cimitan.com/blog/wp-conte...ine_rgba-2.jpg

Blog posts about RGBA:

http://www.cimitan.com/blog/2008/11/...rine-projects/

http://www.cimitan.com/blog/2007/12/...urrine-engine/

[crimesaucer]

The OP of this thread did try to describe how to mod a theme, but he left out lots a valuable information.

You can find the best information here http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/Tutorials

Hello, I was the creator of this thread.... I made it way back in March 2007 after messing around with some xfce4 themes.



This thread is as old as dirt and mostly for the "xfce4 gtk engine" (which basically nobody uses). I'm always surprised when I see people digging up this ancient thread.



You can see my current murrine themes here (and some clearlooks): http://crimesaucer.deviantart.com/gallery/
(the old xfce4 themes from this thread are on page 5 and 6)



There wasn't much information available when I wrote this back in early 2007, especially about the xfce4 gtk engines.



There were no easy GUI apps included with gnome for changing the colors of gtk2 themes..... Beryl was around version 1.0 and considered "bleeding edge" back then..... hell, running "the widget factory" and modifying gtkrcs through trial and error was about the only thing that I found I could do.



..... and the Gnome Tutorials that you and other people have linked are all good to read about gtk widgets, but none of them had an easy explanation that a beginner (such as myself) could follow to change a few colors and widget styles.



I am in no way a developer or a Linux guru, and in fact this post is a bit of an embarrassment now. It was basically me learning a few things and then sharing it with other beginners.



Hopefully someone will create a more current thread for everybody to discuss gtk2 themes in, I haven't even been in the Ubuntu Forums much since they closed the "Other OS" section (I haven't used xubuntu since 7.04).



So good luck to everyone, and hopefully this thread will be closed.

[Minsky]

Thanks Crimesaucer, I'll check out the links!

[vie et mort]

Anyone know how to change the color of this gtkrc's titlebar / frame? Not sure what exactly its called but its the bar all the way at the top of any open window, right above the menu-bar and it says the name of whatever you have open.

# Author: perfectska04 (Victor C.)
# Theme: Shiki-Colors for Murrine 0.9.3+.
# Description: Shiki-Colors is 100% free and open source.

# NOTE: Uncommenting means to delete the "#" at the beginning of a line. Commenting means to add a "#" at the beginning of a line. The "#" tells the theme wether to ignore the specified line or not.

# These are the defined colors for the theme, you can change them in GNOME's appearance preferences.
gtk_color_scheme = "fg_color:#101010\nbg_color:#D8D8D8\nbase_color:#f ff\ntext_color:#1A1A1A\nselected_bg_color:#97bf60\ nselected_fg_color:#fff\ntooltip_bg_color:#F5F5B5\ ntooltip_fg_color:#000\nframe_color:#333333\ninact ive_frame_color:#333333"

#########
# ICONS
#########
gtk-icon-sizes = "gtk-button=16,16" # This makes button icons smaller.
#gtk-icon-sizes = "gtk-large-toolbar=16,16:gtk-small-toolbar=16,16anel-menu=16,16:gtk-button=16,16" # This enables "compact-mode".
#gtk-button-images = 0 # Enables or disables icons on buttons (OS X-like).
#gtk-menu-popup-delay = 1 # Makes menus pop up faster! Set to 1 instead of 0 to avoid any bugs.

##########
# PANELS
##########
include "panel.rc" # This includes the file that handles panel theming. Gradient panel backgrounds are enabled by default for this setting. Please edit panel.rc if you don't want gradient backgrounds in your panels, or plan to use transparent/custom panels.

# The following lines make panel-menu-applet, slab-main-menu and gimmie applet's text bold. The radius value sets the roundness value of the selected menu-item.
style "bold-panel-menu"
{
font_name = "Bold"

engine "murrine" {
roundness = 2
}
}

style "bold-panel-slab"
{
font_name = "Bold"
}
widget "*Panel*slab-main-menu-panel-button*" style "bold-panel-slab"
widget "*gimmie*" style "bold-panel-slab"
widget "*Panel*MenuBar*" style "bold-panel-menu"

##########################
# GENERAL THEME SETTINGS
##########################
style "murrine-default"
{
xthickness = 1
ythickness = 1

GtkButton::child-displacement-x = 0 # Pressed button icon displacement.
GtkButton::child-displacement-y = 1 # Pressed button icon displacement.

GtkButton::default-border = { 0, 0, 0, 0 }
GtkCheckButton::indicator-size = 14 # Size for check buttons.
GtkRadioButton::indicator-size = 14 # Size for radio buttons.
GtkPaned::handle-size = 6 # Width of handles.

GtkRange::trough-border = 0
GtkRange::slider-width = 15 # Scrollbar width.
GtkRange::stepper-size = 15 # Stepper height.

GtkScale::slider-length = 24 # Length of sliders.
GtkScale::trough-side-details = 1
GtkScrollbar::min-slider-length = 35 # Min. length of scrollbars.

GtkMenuBar::internal-padding = 0
GtkExpander::expander-size = 16
GtkToolbar::internal-padding = 1 # Toolbar padding.
GtkTreeView::expander-size = 14
GtkTreeView::vertical-separator = 0

GtkMenu::horizontal-padding = 0
GtkMenu::vertical-padding = 0

WnckTasklist::fade-overlay-rect = 0
GtkEntry::honors-transparent-bg-hint = 1
GtkEntry:rogress-border = { 2, 2, 2, 2 } # Border of GtkEntry progressbars.

# GtkWidget::focus-padding = 0 # This can give you a more compact appearance.
GtkScrolledWindow::scrollbar-spacing = 1 # This sets the spacing between scrollbars.

# Uncomment one or both of the following for flat/unified menus or toolbars:
GtkToolbar::shadow-type = GTK_SHADOW_NONE # Makes toolbars flat and unified.
# GtkMenuBar::shadow-type = GTK_SHADOW_NONE # Makes menus flat and unified.

####################
# Color Definitions
####################
fg[NORMAL] = @fg_color
fg[PRELIGHT] = @fg_color
fg[SELECTED] = @selected_fg_color
fg[ACTIVE] = @fg_color
fg[INSENSITIVE] = darker (@bg_color)

bg[NORMAL] = @bg_color
bg[PRELIGHT] = shade (1.02, @bg_color)
bg[SELECTED] = @selected_bg_color
bg[INSENSITIVE] = @bg_color
bg[ACTIVE] = shade (0.85, @bg_color)

base[NORMAL] = @base_color
base[PRELIGHT] = shade (0.95, @bg_color)
base[ACTIVE] = shade (0.75, @bg_color)
base[SELECTED] = @selected_bg_color
base[INSENSITIVE] = @bg_color

text[NORMAL] = @text_color
text[PRELIGHT] = @text_color
text[ACTIVE] = @selected_fg_color
text[SELECTED] = @selected_fg_color
text[INSENSITIVE] = darker (@bg_color)

engine "murrine"
{
contrast = 1.0 # theme contrast.
glazestyle = 0 # 0 = flat hilight, 1 = curved hilight, 2 = concave style, 3 = top curved hilight, 4 = beryl hilight.
menubarstyle = 0 # 0 = flat, 1 = glassy, 2 = gradient, 3 = striped.
menubaritemstyle = 1 # 0 = menuitem look, 1 = button look.
menuitemstyle = 1 # 0 = flat, 1 = glassy, 2 = striped.
listviewheaderstyle = 1 # 0 = flat, 1 = glassy, 2 = raised.
listviewstyle = 0 # 0 = nothing, 1 = dotted.
scrollbarstyle = 2 # 0 = nothing, 1 = circles, 2 = handles, 3 = diagonal stripes, 4 = diagonal stripes and handles, 5 = horizontal stripes, 6 = horizontal stripes and handles.
stepperstyle = 1 # 0 = standard, 1 = integrated stepper handles.
roundness = 2 # Overall roundness of the theme.
# progressbarstyle = 1 # 0 = nothing, 1 = striped, 2 = cells
animation = TRUE # FALSE disables progressbar animations.
gradients = TRUE # enables gradients.
reliefstyle = 2 # shadows around widgets.
sliderstyle = 1 # 0 = nothing added, 1 = handles.
menustyle = 0 # removes stripes from menus.
rgba = FALSE # disables rgba.
lightborder_shade = 1.20 # sets lightborder amount for buttons or widgets.
lightborderstyle = 1 # 0 = lightborder on top side, 1 = lightborder on all sides.
highlight_shade = 1.04 # shade for gradient hightlight.
gradient_shades = {1.09,1.01,1.01,0.91} # rendering of gradients.
}
}

#################
# THEME MODULES
#################
style "evolution-hack" = "murrine-default" # Hacks for Evolution Mail.
{
bg[NORMAL] = shade (1.14, @bg_color) # Color for evo treeview headers.
bg[PRELIGHT] = shade (1.18, @bg_color) # Color for evo treeview header prelight.
bg[ACTIVE] = shade (0.75, @bg_color) # Color for unfocused evo selected items.
bg[SELECTED] = @selected_bg_color # Color for evo selected items.
fg[ACTIVE] = @selected_fg_color # Color for evo active text.
fg[SELECTED] = @selected_fg_color # Color for evo selected text.
}

style "murrine-wide"
{
xthickness = 2 # Can't change, or clowns will eat you.
ythickness = 2 # Can't change, or clowns will eat you.
}

style "murrine-wider"
{
xthickness = 3 # Can't change, or clowns will eat you.
ythickness = 3 # Can't change, or clowns will eat you.
}

style "murrine-entry" = "murrine-wider" {

bg[SELECTED] = mix (0.4, @selected_bg_color, @base_color)
fg[SELECTED] = @text_color

engine "murrine" {
focus_color = shade (0.65, @selected_bg_color)
}
}

style "murrine-button" = "murrine-wider"
{
bg[NORMAL] = shade (1.14, @bg_color) # Color for buttons.
bg[PRELIGHT] = shade (1.18, @bg_color) # Color for button-prelight.
bg[ACTIVE] = shade (0.85, @bg_color) # Color for pressed-buttons.
engine "murrine"
{
contrast = 1.20 # Button border contrast.
}
}

style "murrine-notebook-bg"
{
bg[NORMAL] = shade (1.1, @bg_color) # Tab background.
bg[ACTIVE] = @bg_color # Unfocused tab background.
}

style "murrine-notebook" = "murrine-notebook-bg"
{
xthickness = 2 # Width of tabs and notebook borders.
ythickness = 2 # Height of tabs and notebook borders.
engine "murrine"
{
roundness = 0 # Roundness of notebook tabs.
}
}

style "murrine-menu" # This section themes custom dark menus. Leave as is.
{
ythickness = 0
xthickness = 0
bg[SELECTED] = shade (0.85, @selected_bg_color)
bg[NORMAL] = "#000000"
bg[PRELIGHT] = shade (0.85, @selected_bg_color)
bg[ACTIVE] = "#333333"
bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#3C3C3C"
fg[NORMAL] = "#E6E6E6" # Color for normal text.
fg[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color
fg[SELECTED] = @selected_fg_color
fg[ACTIVE] = @selected_fg_color
fg[INSENSITIVE] = "#666666"
text[NORMAL] = @base_color # Color for menu-item radio/checks.
base[NORMAL] = "#666666" # Color for menu-item radio/checks background.
text[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color
text[SELECTED] = @selected_fg_color
text[ACTIVE] = @selected_fg_color
text[INSENSITIVE] = "#666666"
engine "murrine"
{
roundness = 0 # Roundness of menu items.
}
}

style "murrine-menu-item" = "murrine-wider"
{
bg[SELECTED] = shade (0.85, @selected_bg_color)
bg[PRELIGHT] = shade (0.85, @selected_bg_color)
fg[NORMAL] = "#E6E6E6" # Fix for XFCE menu text.
fg[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color
fg[SELECTED] = @selected_fg_color
}

style "murrine-separator-menu-item"
{
GtkSeparatorMenuItem::horizontal-padding = 4
# We are setting the desired height by using wide-separators.
# There is no other way to get the odd height ...
GtkWidget::wide-separators = 1
GtkWidget::separator-width = 1
GtkWidget::separator-height = 7
xthickness = 1
ythickness = 0
}

style "murrine-menubar" # This section deals with dark menubars. Leave as is.
{
ythickness = 0
bg[SELECTED] = shade (0.85, @selected_bg_color)
bg[NORMAL] = "#000000" # Background color for menubars.
bg[PRELIGHT] = shade (0.85, @selected_bg_color)
bg[ACTIVE] = "#000000"
bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#3C3C3C"
fg[NORMAL] = "#E6E6E6" # Color for normal text.
fg[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color
fg[SELECTED] = @selected_fg_color
fg[ACTIVE] = @selected_fg_color
fg[INSENSITIVE] = "#666666"
text[NORMAL] = "#E6E6E6"
text[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color
text[SELECTED] = @selected_fg_color
text[ACTIVE] = @selected_fg_color
text[INSENSITIVE] = "#666666"
}

style "murrine-treeview"
{
engine "murrine"
{
roundness = 0 # This makes treeview progressbars square.
}
}

style "murrine-treeview-header" = "murrine-button"
{
xthickness = 2
ythickness = 1
bg[NORMAL] = shade (1.14, @bg_color) # Color for treeview headers.
bg[PRELIGHT] = shade (1.18, @bg_color) # Color for treeview header prelight.
bg[ACTIVE] = shade (0.85, @bg_color) # Color for pressed-treeview.
engine "murrine"
{
roundness = 0 # This makes treeview progressbars square.
}
}

style "murrine-frame-title"
{
fg[NORMAL] = lighter (@fg_color)
}

style "murrine-tooltips" = "murrine-wider"
{
bg[NORMAL] = @tooltip_bg_color
fg[NORMAL] = @tooltip_fg_color
}

style "metacity-frame" = "murrine-default"
{
bg[SELECTED] = shade (0.85, @selected_bg_color) # Color for metacity borders.
}

style "murrine-progressbar"
{
xthickness = 0
ythickness = 0
fg[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color # Progressbar prelighted text.
engine "murrine"
{
roundness = 0 # Progressbar roundness.
}
}

style "murrine-statusbar"
{
xthickness = 2
}

style "murrine-comboboxentry"
{
}

style "murrine-spinbutton"
{
bg[ACTIVE] = shade (0.85, @bg_color) # Color for pressed-spinbuttons.
}

style "murrine-scale" = "murrine-button"
{
GtkRange ::slider-width = 15 # Width of sliders.
bg[NORMAL] = shade (1.14, @bg_color) # Color for sliders.
bg[PRELIGHT] = shade (1.18, @bg_color) # Color for slider prelight.
bg[ACTIVE] = shade (0.85, @bg_color) # Color for pressed-sliders.
engine "murrine"
{
contrast = 1.20 # Slider border contrast.
}
}

style "murrine-hscale" = "murrine-scale"
{
}

style "murrine-vscale" = "murrine-scale"
{
}

style "murrine-nautilus-location" # Workaround for nautilus' messages.
{
bg[NORMAL] = shade (1.25, @selected_bg_color)
}

style "murrine-radiocheck" = "murrine-default"
{
text[NORMAL] = @selected_fg_color # Color for checks/radio items.
text[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color # Color for checks/radio items.
}

##############
# SCROLLBARS
##############
style "murrine-scrollbar"
{
# GtkScrollbar::trough-border = 0 # Change to a higher value for border around scrollbars.
bg[NORMAL] = shade (1.14, @bg_color) # Color for non-colored scrollbars.
bg[INSENSITIVE] = @bg_color # Color for non-colored scrollbars.
bg[PRELIGHT] = @bg_color # Color for scrollbar prelight? (probably obsolete)
bg[ACTIVE] = @bg_color # Color for scrollbar rail's background.
bg[SELECTED] = @selected_bg_color # Color of scrollbars.
fg[PRELIGHT] = shade (0.60, @selected_bg_color) # Highlighted scrollbar button.
fg[ACTIVE] = shade (0.40, @selected_bg_color) # Pressed scrollbar button.
engine "murrine"
{
colorize_scrollbar = FALSE # Commenting this out gives you colorful scrollbars.
roundness = 0 # Scrollbar roundness.
contrast = 1.20 # Makes scrollbar's rail borders darker.
}
}

style "murrine-hscrollbar" = "murrine-scrollbar"
{
}

style "murrine-vscrollbar" = "murrine-scrollbar"
{
}

############
# TOOLBARS
############
# Gradient toolbars are disabled for this theme. Follow these instructions to enable them:
# 1. Comment out the line in this file that starts with "GtkToolbar::shadow-type".
# 2. Uncomment the following:

#style "murrine-toolbar" = "murrine-default"
#{
# engine "murrine"
# {
# toolbarstyle = 2 # This forces gradient toolbars.
# }
#}

#style "murrine-evo-new-button-workaround"
#{
# engine "murrine"
# {
# toolbarstyle = 0
# }
#}
#widget_class "EShellWindow.GtkVBox.BonoboDock.BonoboDockBand.Bo noboDockItem*" style "murrine-evo-new-button-workaround"

#class "GtkToolbar" style "murrine-toolbar"
#class "GtkHandleBox" style "murrine-toolbar"


################################################## #############################
# The following part of the gtkrc applies the different styles to the widgets.
################################################## #############################

# Murrine default style is applied to every widget.
class "GtkWidget" style "murrine-default"

# Increase the x/ythickness in some widgets.
class "GtkFrame" style "murrine-wide"
class "GtkEntry" style "murrine-entry"
class "MetaFrames" style "metacity-frame"
class "GtkSeparator" style "murrine-wide"
class "GtkWindow" style "metacity-frame"
class "GtkCalendar" style "murrine-wide"

class "GtkSpinButton" style "murrine-spinbutton"
class "GtkScale" style "murrine-scale"
class "GtkVScale" style "murrine-vscale"
class "GtkHScale" style "murrine-hscale"
class "GtkScrollbar" style "murrine-scrollbar"
class "GtkVScrollbar" style "murrine-vscrollbar"
class "GtkHScrollbar" style "murrine-hscrollbar"

class "GtkRadio*" style "murrine-radiocheck"
class "GtkCheck*" style "murrine-radiocheck"

# General matching following, the order is choosen so that the right styles override each other eg. progressbar needs to be more important then the menu match.

# This is not perfect, it could be done better (That is modify *every* widget in the notebook, and change those back that we really don't want changed)
widget_class "*<GtkNotebook>*<GtkEventBox>" style "murrine-notebook-bg"
widget_class "*<GtkNotebook>*<GtkDrawingArea>" style "murrine-notebook-bg"
widget_class "*<GtkNotebook>*<GtkLayout>" style "murrine-notebook-bg"
widget_class "*<GtkNotebook>*<GtkViewport>" style "murrine-notebook-bg"
widget_class "*<GtkNotebook>*<GtkScrolledWindow>" style "murrine-notebook-bg"

widget_class "*<GtkButton>" style "murrine-button"
widget_class "*<GtkNotebook>" style "murrine-notebook"
widget_class "*<GtkStatusbar>*" style "murrine-statusbar"

widget_class "*<GtkComboBoxEntry>*" style "murrine-comboboxentry"
widget_class "*<GtkCombo>*" style "murrine-comboboxentry"

widget_class "*<GtkMenuBar>*" style "murrine-menubar"
widget_class "*<GtkMenu>*" style "murrine-menu"
widget_class "*<GtkMenuItem>*" style "murrine-menu-item"
widget_class "*<GtkSeparatorMenuItem>*" style "murrine-separator-menu-item"

widget_class "*.<GtkFrame>.<GtkLabel>" style "murrine-frame-title"
widget_class "*.<GtkTreeView>*" style "murrine-treeview"

widget_class "*<GtkProgress>" style "murrine-progressbar"
widget_class "*<GtkProgressBar>" style "murrine-progressbar"

# Treeview header
widget_class "*.<GtkTreeView>.<GtkButton>" style "murrine-treeview-header"
widget_class "*.<GtkCTree>.<GtkButton>" style "murrine-treeview-header"
widget_class "*.<GtkList>.<GtkButton>" style "murrine-treeview-header"
widget_class "*.<GtkCList>.<GtkButton>" style "murrine-treeview-header"

# Workarounds for Evolution
widget_class "*.ETable.ECanvas" style "murrine-treeview-header"
widget_class "*.ETree.ECanvas" style "murrine-treeview-header"
widget_class "*GtkCTree*" style "evolution-hack"
widget_class "*GtkList*" style "evolution-hack"
widget_class "*GtkCList*" style "evolution-hack"
widget_class "*.ETree.*" style "evolution-hack"
widget_class "*EInfoLabel*" style "evolution-hack"

# The window of the tooltip is called "gtk-tooltip"
################################
# FIXME:
# This will not work if one embeds eg. a button into the tooltip.
# As far as I can tell right now we will need to rework the theme
# quite a bit to get this working correctly.
# (It will involve setting different priorities, etc.)
################################
widget "gtk-tooltip*" style "murrine-tooltips"

################################################## #
# SPECIAL CASES AND WORKAROUNDS
################################################## #

# Special case the nautilus-extra-view-widget
# ToDo: A more generic approach for all applications that have a widget like this.
widget "*.nautilus-extra-view-widget" style : highest "murrine-nautilus-location"

# Work around for http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382646
# Note that the work around assumes that the combobox is _not_ in appears-as-list mode.
# This style does not affect GtkComboBoxEntry, it does have an effect on comboboxes in appears-as-list mode though.
style "murrine-text-is-fg-color-workaround"
{
text[NORMAL] = @fg_color
text[PRELIGHT] = @fg_color
text[SELECTED] = @selected_fg_color
text[ACTIVE] = @fg_color
text[INSENSITIVE] = darker (@bg_color)
}
widget_class "*.<GtkComboBox>.<GtkCellView>" style "murrine-text-is-fg-color-workaround"

style "murrine-menuitem-text-is-fg-color-workaround"
{
text[NORMAL] = "#E6E6E6"
text[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color
text[SELECTED] = @selected_fg_color
text[ACTIVE] = @fg_color
text[INSENSITIVE] = darker (@bg_color)
}
widget "*.gtk-combobox-popup-menu.*" style "murrine-menuitem-text-is-fg-color-workaround"

# Work around the usage of GtkLabel inside GtkListItems to display text.
# This breaks because the label is shown on a background that is based on the base color set.
style "murrine-fg-is-text-color-workaround"
{
fg[NORMAL] = @text_color
fg[PRELIGHT] = @text_color
fg[ACTIVE] = @selected_fg_color
fg[SELECTED] = @selected_fg_color
fg[INSENSITIVE] = darker (@bg_color)
}
widget_class "*<GtkListItem>*" style "murrine-fg-is-text-color-workaround"
# The same problem also exists for GtkCList and GtkCTree.
# Only match GtkCList and not the parent widgets, because that would also change the headers.
widget_class "*<GtkCList>" style "murrine-fg-is-text-color-workaround"
widget_class "*<EelEditableLabel>" style "murrine-fg-is-text-color-workaround"

# The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is 42.

I like messing around with these things but I could never figure out how to change the color of the very top bar. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[crimesaucer]

Anyone know how to change the color of this gtkrc's titlebar / frame? Not sure what exactly its called but its the bar all the way at the top of any open window, right above the menu-bar and it says the name of whatever you have open.
I like messing around with these things but I could never figure out how to change the color of the very top bar. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Did you try changing these:

bg[SELECTED]
bg[INSENSITIVE]

This worked for my xfwm4 color using murrine (active window and inactive window).

Your murrine theme is written differently than the ones that I use, and I'm not sure if you use xfwm4 or metacity or something else so my answer might not work.

[greco]

Here's another one...

I'm running Elegant-Brit and I love it. The only thing is that I would like to have the dark gray border around the windows as opposed to the default white. I tried searching the intraweb to find which settings I need to change in the gtkrc to get the border color I want but I am SOL.

Does anyone know the attributes I need to add to the gtkrc file to change the border color of windows (gnome-terminal, firefox, etc..)

Thanks in advance.