Ubuntu – How to set a custom text highlighting colour

configurationcustomizationgnomeguithemes

If you use the Adwaita theme you get Blue as the highlighting colour, for Numix you get Red/Orange (not sure exactly which), I have Numix, and like it, but I would like to change the highlighting colour (but not theme) to Green for a change, how can this be achieved? I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.04 with GNOME 3.16.

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The color code is #d64937

find "/usr/share/themes/Numix Daily/gtk-3.0" -type f -name '*.css' -print0 | xargs -0 grep 'd64937'

therefore you have to change two files:

sudo nano "/usr/share/themes/Numix Daily/gtk-3.0/gtk-dark.css"
sudo nano "/usr/share/themes/Numix Daily/gtk-3.0/gtk.css"

Search for

@define-color selected_bg_color #d64937;

And replace with

@define-color selected_bg_color #4A90D9;

Restart GNOME via Alt-F2 any type r isn't enough, logout and re-login.

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You can pretty much download a lot of themes from the Internet, but you can also install Cinnamon. Cinnamon is a fork of GNOME Shell used for Linux Mint. It is fully configurable. However, it is quite complicated to install at first, and it will replace Unity, so if you just wanted to change the basic theme, this may not be for you.

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Use the environment variable MANPAGER

export MANPAGER=more

e.g. in your ~/.profile or systemwide in /etc/environment

Thus only is affected the man command.

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