Theming Gnome

[ilia_kr]

I've rcently moved to GNOME and now want to alter its appearence.

It is possible to download GTK themes and METACITY. What is the difference between this two types and on what part of a window are they responsible?

Thanks.

[ianw1974]

I'm no expert on this, but it seems that Metacity refers to Window Borders. GTK refers to the Controls, such as buttons etc.

 

If you go into Preferences/Themes, you can then click the Theme Details button, and you'll get Controls/Window Border/Icons. Controls are where the GTK themes appear, Window Border is where the MetaCity items appear. Of course, icon sets appear in icons.

[tyme]

two of the best sites for gnome themes:

gnome-look.org (def. #1)

art.gnome.org

[ilia_kr]

How can i change the color of window controls, except downloading a new theme, if it is possible?

[arctic]

Only by changing the colour code in the gtkrc file of a theme. Every theme has a gtkrc file, where all colours are defined. That way, it is on the one hand hard for untrained people to alter the colour settings but on the other hand, it is imho easier than in KDE to create completely new themes.

[bvc]

metacity uses the metacity-theme-1.xml file to define colors. Looks like you are using clearlooks in your screenshot

 

<draw_ops name="title_background">
<gradient type="vertical" x="0" y="1" width="width" height="top_height / 2">
	<color value="shade/gtk:bg[SELECTED]/1.2"/> <!-- 1.25 0.97 - 0.95 1.00 -->
	<color value="shade/gtk:bg[SELECTED]/1.0"/>
</gradient>
<gradient type="vertical" x="0" y="top_height / 2" width="width" height="top_height / 2">
	<color value="shade/gtk:bg[SELECTED]/1.0"/>
	<color value="shade/gtk:bg[SELECTED]/1.10"/>
</gradient>

<line color="shade/gtk:bg[SELECTED]/0.7" x1="0" y1="0" x2="width" y2="0"/>

<!--<line color="shade/gtk:bg[SELECTED]/1.45" x1="0" y1="1" x2="width" y2="1"/>-->
<tint color="shade/gtk:bg[SELECTED]/2" alpha="0.35" x="0" y="1" width="width" height="1"/>
<tint color="shade/gtk:bg[SELECTED]/2" alpha="0.1" x="7" y="1" width="width -14" height="1"/>

<line color="shade/gtk:bg[SELECTED]/1.0" x1="0" y1="top_height-2" x2="width" y2="top_height-2"/>
<line color="shade/gtk:bg[SELECTED]/0.8" x1="0" y1="top_height-1" x2="width-1" y2="top_height-1"/>
</draw_ops>

 

so you can see it uses the gtkrc's bg[sELECTED]

if you changes all those toa specific color

#ff0000

that is what metacity would use. See the Theming Gmome Pinned thread in this section for howto details

[ilia_kr]

thank you, it really helped me