Changing color of title bar of windows in F15

[fedoraist]

Hi everyone,

I'm after an upgrade from F14 to F15. Congrats to everybody!

I'm playing with the system now and I have some questions. I wasn't able to find answers to some of them on this forum or the net. I'll be happy if you can help me or refer me to helpful resources.

My first question doesn't necessarily lighten me as someone with deep personality: how do I tweak the color of the title bars of the active and non-active windows in Gnome 3? Thanks!

[linuzzz]

title bar color is managed by metacity/mutter so you have to download a metacity theme and install it.

then install gnome-tweak-tool and choose the theme installed.

bye
linuzzz

[fedoraist]

Wow, no way to change the color without installing a theme? OK.

Where can I find themes? Here there are only four themes. Any other resources?

[Dan]

Hmmmm. 'Tain't exactly so. There may be themes by now, but If you'd rather have your own colors ...

This should give you a few ideas. BUT! Back up the files involved first. <....>

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/pictur...&pictureid=918

The victims are located in: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml

Using the browser window, drill down to: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/ and open metacity-theme-3.xml in an editor, and have a look around.

This thread has more info: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=263006

[fedoraist]

Originally Posted by Dan

Hmmmm. 'Tain't exactly so. There may be themes by now, but If you'd rather have your own colors ...

This thread has more info: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=263006

OK, thanks. I'll review all the options, but I think I'll prefer to wait to a more friendly app that will allow me to tweak these things.

[Bazu135]

Originally Posted by Dan

Hmmmm. 'Tain't exactly so. There may be themes by now, but If you'd rather have your own colors ...

This should give you a few ideas. BUT! Back up the files involved first. <....>

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/pictur...&pictureid=918

The victims are located in: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml

Using the browser window, drill down to: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/ and open metacity-theme-3.xml in an editor, and have a look around.

This thread has more info: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=263006

I've been having a go at this, but so far I've only found the values to change the title bar text colour and unselected title bar text colour - lines 18 and 20 respectively:

(18) <constant name="C_title_focused" value="blend/#ffffff/gtk:bg[NORMAL]/0.1" />
(20) <constant name="C_title_unfocused" value="blend/#cacaca/gtk:bg[NORMAL]/0.9" />

(Edited versions shown; changes underlined)

I've tried modifying the other "meaningfull constants", as well as a handful of other values, but I've not been able to find how to change - for instance - the colour of the title bar or the scroll bar. Has anyone had any luck in this regard?