A Beginner "How To" for gtkrc themes.

[crimesaucer]

no, i don't mean windows border's but that would be nice to know too, for metacity and emerald. more importantly, i want to know how to have a white outline under the text, and not all around the text, making it looked 'etched it'

and see where it says 'option' here?
it's only under the top text, not all around it

I'm not sure about the text... I see what you're saying... the only etched in/out shadows I know how to do is for toolbars and menubars by using:

GtkMenuBar::shadow_type           = out
GtkMenuItem::selected_shadow_type = none
GtkToolbar::shadow_type           = out

Sorry I can't help.

[crimesaucer]

Noob question; i'm trying to have menu bar items 'etched-in'. can anyone help me with that?

Sorry, like the comments above I'm not sure how to do that. The only etched-in/out/none that I know of is these:

GtkMenuBar::shadow_type           = out
GtkMenuItem::selected_shadow_type = in
GtkToolbar::shadow_type           = none

[lancerocke]

Thank you, the info is pretty old, and sort of incomplete... when I wrote this I was learning to theme gtkrc files through trial and error.

But like I said, I stopped writing themes for the xfce4 engine and pretty much just use the murrine engine cause it looks so nice and is very easy to figure out and customize.

Having recently switched to Gnome (less maintenance than the combo of xmonad and xfce4 that I had been using for the last few years), so this is one of my newer murrine looks:









Sorry, I'm not sure.

what font is that? 8px?8.somethingpx? lucida? segoi?

I'm not sure about the text... I see what you're saying... the only etched in/out shadows I know how to do is for toolbars and menubars by using:

GtkMenuBar::shadow_type           = out
GtkMenuItem::selected_shadow_type = none
GtkToolbar::shadow_type           = out

Sorry I can't help.

ok, np. i'll try to ask somewhere/one else.

[crimesaucer]

what font is that? 8px?8.somethingpx? lucida? segoi?

the font is Lucida Grande:size=8 (from an Apple fonts package that I found a few years back), and the conky font is "LucidaConsole:size=7" from the same package.

[lancerocke]

the font is Lucida Grande:size=8 (from an Apple fonts package that I found a few years back), and the conky font is "LucidaConsole:size=7" from the same package.

cool. is 8px the default mac size, do you think?

[crimesaucer]

cool. is 8px the default mac size, do you think?

I'm not sure, I've never used a mac before.

[PhotonicGuy]

Nice topic! I'll try it myself

[lancerocke]

is there a way to control font line spacing in gtk themes?

[mitra_jit2005]

y isn't this post made a sticky yet ??? i ws searching for this, for a year nw...wl post my themes within few dayzzz..

[Crazedpsyc]

I realize this is rather old, but before I start a new thread I want to check: Do you know how to let the gnome appearance editor change the colors? I tried using base[PRELIGHT] = "*"
but that just made everything gray and ugly.
also: how can I specify the color for the text in the gnome menu? I got it to change, but it took all the button text with it