I am using a GTK theme which I love except that it doesn't have borders around the windows. If I am on a web page (for example) with a white background and my wallpaper is white I don't know where the web page starts. What is worse, sometimes that type of thing happens with other windows, where I can't tell where the one window start and the other ends.
Is there a way to edit GTK themes? More specifically, is there a way to edit a theme so that it will display a border around windows?
Best Answer
The window border width is actually set by the Metacity theme. You can either change the Metacity theme (System ➜ Preferences ➜ Appearance ➜ Theme ➜ Customize ➜ Window Border) to one that has a window border or edit the Metacity theme you are using right now.
Metacity theme files are located in
~/.themes/<theme name>/metacity-1/
and/usr/share/themes/<theme name>/metacity-1/
.Edit your theme's
metacity-theme-1.xml
file and change all valuesleft_width
,right_width
andbottom_height
to something higher than0
.