Can we kill the nautilus white?

[Argedion]

I've been looking for a way to kill the white background we have been plagued with since f15. Is there a way to change this Horrendous eye (and yes I mean literally) eye sore? I really hate the fact that emblems and backgrounds was removed from nautilus. I'm not the best at figuring these things out and knowing what goes where with who and why now i'm really

TIA for the effort and help

[secipolla]

If you don't mind a gray in its place, you could use the excellent theme at http://gnome-look.org/content/show.p...content=148398

As for changing only nautilus' background, IDK as I don't use it.

[Dan]

That would be buried in the theme css files. You can either change the entire theme as a whole, or go in and pick away at it yourself. I recommend the former for those seeking simple solutions, and the later for those willing to get their hands a little dirty and risk breaking things. (Which is exactly what I did. <...> )

[Argedion]

Thanks guys I guess now I have to see at how well I am at finding this kind of stuff.

[Dan]

When you find this particular entry ... please post it. I think I remember stumbling across it a while back, but I've slept since then. That being said, here's part of my adventures trying to re-theme Gnome 3. <....>

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...=272638&page=3

[Argedion]

Dan I will post it when I'm fortunate enough to ding it. I have never "themed" my computer I've done some basic graphic changes but that has been the extent of my themeing. I have done a bit more of themeing on the phone and I have not messed with the xml files. Guess I'm going to start breaking things oh well time to get dirty.

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[secipolla]

The problem is that the Adwaita theme (at least in fedora) is compiled, so you won't find the css file to change.
You can change the 'base' colour in the settings.ini file but I think it won't change the background (as it should in a basic theme).

[Argedion]

Got the oh no something went wrong screen and im not experianced enough to know what to do. I went to live disk and replaced the few files I had originally changed however that was a no go. I went into recoverymode and smiled as I found the systemctrl reboot. It's now off and I am now at work. Any suggestions on how to fix



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[secipolla]

You must have messed with forbidden stuff...
Can't you remember what you tried to modify?
At the GRUB screen, hit 'e' at the 'Fedora' line, then add '3' (without quotes) at the end of the line that starts with 'linux'.
This will make you boot to console mode, login as root and revert whatever you changed. Then run 'init 5' to start the login screen (GDM).

If you tried to mess in the GTK folders you could try re-installing gtk3 and adwaita-gtk3-theme.

[Argedion]

Thanks for the reply secipolla however none of that worked either. And with my memory I cant remember what all I messed with but I was almost certain that I had saved all the files to another location in my home folder before I did anything I replaced them all from the home folder to the correct folder but still no go. I did the yum reinstall gtk 3 and, yum reinstall adwaita-gtk-theme and nothing still gives me the opps something went wrong screen. I've also tried an update but that was a no go as well. I'm currently in Live CD. I bow not to give up my quest though as I have no need for a white background in nautilus. I really don't understand why they would take that kind of change away from the user.

[Dan]

Hmmm.

Two things to check. The first being folder and file permissions on the re-inserted folders. Make sure they aren't root only after replacement. Second, many of the configuration files for Gnome3/gnome shell are in your home directory in the .local folder. (Particularly many repo-installed extensions.) Something may be amiss in there.

That being said, there is a more pragmatic method of getting back to GUI in your install.

Using the liveCD, go into your install's /etc/pam.d/gdm file, and make the indicated edit.

#%PAM-1.0
auth [success=done ignore=ignore default=bad] pam_selinux_permit.so
#auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet
auth required pam_env.so
auth substack system-auth
auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
auth include postlogin
account required pam_nologin.so
account include system-auth
password include system-auth
session required pam_selinux.so close
session required pam_loginuid.so
session optional pam_console.so
session required pam_selinux.so open
session optional pam_keyinit.so force revoke
session required pam_namespace.so
session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
session include system-auth
session include postlogin

Then do the same for /etc/pam.d/gdm-password.

auth [success=done ignore=ignore default=bad] pam_selinux_permit.so
auth substack password-auth
#auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet
auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
auth include postlogin

account required pam_nologin.so
account include password-auth

password include password-auth

session required pam_selinux.so close
session required pam_loginuid.so
session optional pam_console.so
session required pam_selinux.so open
session optional pam_keyinit.so force revoke
session required pam_namespace.so
session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
session include password-auth
session include postlogin

Then boot into you install, but when you get to the gdm login screen, type "root" into the user box, hit "enter" then type the root password into the box provided. That will then create and then log into a root account gui.

Once there, go to "Users & Groups" and create a new user. (Which will have a clean slate/directory to work with.) Then gradually compare/replace files in the existing home (your first one) directory until it un-breaks.

[Argedion]

Thanks for the instructions Dan. I have put it in my collection of fixes. Next time I have the issue I now know what to do. thanks for the info. I'm going to slow down and try to find some more info to read on. Any good tutorials that you know of that can help me with this quest? I jumped right into a pool of sharks and almost got eaten alive. So now I have to learn how to jump into the pool with out disturbing the sharks.