[Users] Text color of selected item in message and folder lists

[Robert Williams]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:24:23 -0400
Steve Litt wrote:

> On Mon, 2022-10-10 at 12:17 +0000, Paul wrote:
> > On Sun, 9 Oct 2022 15:33:43 -0700
> > Ben Hancock <ben at benghancock.com> wrote: 
> >   
> > > I'm not the first person to raise this:  
> > 
> > Yeah, but you missed the useful mailing list messages:
> > 
> > https://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2022-July/030629.html
> > https://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2022-July/030634.html  
> 
> At the very bottom of my ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css I ADDED the
> following:
> 
> *:selected {
>     background-color: #ffcc99;
> }
> 
> This produced a light Salmon pastel background that contrasts very
> well with the black text in the list. I have no idea what side
> effects this will produce in Claws and other GTk applications, but
> for now I'm going with it.
> 
> I hope this helps anyone else having this problem.
> 
> SteveT

You can also change the text color, and make it bold, with

> @import 'colors.css';
> *:selected {
>     background-color: #ffcc99;
>     color: #FBF6F0;
       font-style: bold;
>     }
> 
> ---code---
 
This should give you bold white text on a pink background, but you can play
with the colours as you want.


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Robert Williams
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