[Users] change color skin

[Dave Howorth]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 08:31:39 +0100
wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:27:30 -0800 Mark Wagner
> <mark+claws at carnildo.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 22:23:36 +0100
> > Giuseppe Dibello <gio.duemila at yandex.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > Hi, is it possible to change the general grey color of the skin? I
> > > searched into the plugins but there are only buttons available.
> > > Thank you eventually.    
> > 
> > Claws uses your global color settings.  I don't think it's possible
> > to color it independently of the rest of your desktop environment.  
> 
> It does, as other GTK apps do, using GTK themes (either globally, i.e.
> at desktop level, or using ~/.claws-mail/gtkrc-2.0).

Fascinating. I just created ~/.claws-mail/gtkrc-2.0 and put this in it:

style "default-style"
{
	# set the background to orange
        bg[NORMAL] = "#ffa500"
}

class "GtkWidget" style "default-style"

Shows what's possible :)