use your own theme colors with any theme

Posted by travis@usermail.com on 2003-08-15 18:59:18

I like the ?LighthouseBlue theme colors, but wanted to use the Bluecurve theme instead, so I made a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file that looks like this:

style "mydefault"
{
  fg[NORMAL]       = "#000000"
  fg[ACTIVE]       = "#000000"
  fg[PRELIGHT]     = "#000000"
  fg[SELECTED]     = "#F5F5F5"
  fg[INSENSITIVE]  = "#747474"

  bg[NORMAL]       = "#EEEEE0"
  bg[ACTIVE]       = "#CCCCC0" 
  bg[PRELIGHT]     = "#DDDDD0"
  bg[SELECTED]     = "#5f7ca8" 
  bg[INSENSITIVE]  = "#D6D6D6"

  base[NORMAL]     = "#F5F5F5"
  base[ACTIVE]     = "#bbbbb0"
  base[PRELIGHT]   = "#bbbbb0"
  base[SELECTED]   = "#5f7ca8"
  base[INSENSITIVE]= "#E9E9E9"

  text[NORMAL]     = "#000000"
  text[ACTIVE]     = "#f5f5f5"
  text[PRELIGHT]   = "#f5f5f5"
  text[SELECTED]   = "#f5f5f5"
  text[INSENSITIVE]= "#747474"
}
class "*" style "mydefault"

I just snipped out the color settings from ?LighthouseBlue, create my own style and told gtk+ to use my style for all widgets.

Simple, but not obvious (at least for me).