[Users] Color schemes

David Woodfall dave at dawoodfall.net
Tue Aug 6 23:36:17 CEST 2013


On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 22:29:05 +0200
Sébastien <ml at terranean.eu> wrote:

> Le 2013-08-06 à 12:44, John Jason Jordan a écrit:
> > desktop. All is well, except when a message is highlighted in the
> > Inbox, or when a mailbox is highlighted, the background changes from
> > white to dark blue. The text is black, Black text on a dark blue
> > background is impossible to read. 
> 
> These colours are managed by the GTK+ theme, not by Claws Mail.
> You can use the same theme from before to restore the original look
> you are used to, or you can edit the current theme's gtkrc file to
> make the text readable (you might need to restart Claws after
> changing or editing the theme to see the changes on the
> folders/messages list).
> 

There's a very handy little app called gtk-chtheme:
http://plasmasturm.org/code/gtk-chtheme/

It doesn't allow editing colours in the theme, but it saves
editing .gtk files all the time, so you can be editing a file in one
window and switching back and forth with this to see how it looks.

D.





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