I am using Ubuntu 11.10 and i wanted to change colors in Ambiance/Radiance themes, by default it has orange and i wanted to change it to Blue,
I tried using gnome-color-chooser, but it didn't work?
any other ideas?
Themes – How to Change Colors of Ambiance & Radiance Themes
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Xangua has answered my question. From his comments it appears that the Themes in the Ubuntu Repository isn't supported in the current 14.04 version of Ubuntu. Hopefully the developers will consider putting supported themes there so that the users can have a variety.
There might be other resources, but the only one that I found (so far) is the one linked by Xangua in the comments above. It might not be the most definitive, but it appears that the all the Themes in the gtk3 category are supported.
If this theory is correct, then anyone having problems with Ubuntu 14.04 and Themes can verify they are using a gtk3 type theme and it should work.
My next question (of which I'll spend time researching first) is to learn how to edit the title bar and borders of the gtk3 themes.
That's my only problem with the stock Ubuntu, is that you can't easily distinguish between the active and inactive windows and it's hard to tell (without window borders) where one window ends and the next begins, especially when having more than one terminal window on your screen.
The Themes in the Repository question is solved!
Install gnome-tweak-tool. Install various themes after doing research into what they look like and whether they're complete1 and current.
Using a complete theme is important so that even window decorations (such as the min/max/close buttons) are themed. Some themes are
gtk2-only!Using a modern theme is important because there are several unmaintained themes that may not be compatible with your distro's current version.
If you're new to the game, stay with themes from the standard software repositories2.
Open
Tweaks, which is what thegnome-tweak-toolappears as in the Dash, and choose from what you've installed. Changes are immediate.In the attached image, I've used Adwaita Dark.
1 The installation process for some themes may also provide icon themes so that an overall consistent look is available to you. Note that you may choose an icon theme using Tweak, otherwise the default remains.
2 Note that if you look for themes in the Software Center, you may be offered snap versions as well as conventional versions. Please read up on snaps and their features.
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What you have do is copy radiance as backup and change setting.ini file in themes by using.
Edit:
So it says:
And do the same with gtk-2, using:
Otherwise gtk-2 applications like chrome etc will have old orange color and you are done. Reload the theme using gnome-tweak-tool.
Every GNOME-3 theme works with unity-3d perfectly but with 2D it has fallback window control problem when maximized (means in global panel it has fallback window controls which are ugly as hell, even the themes have unity folder in them and they work fine with 3D)
The colour used above [#7FADFD] is just one example of any number of hex colours that can be employed. Refer to here for other hex colour codes.