• Registered: 2010-10-27
  • Posts: 6

Topic: Claws-Mail GTK

Hi,

i recently switched to #!-xfce (after 5 years of xubuntu...) and i love it.

Only Problem i couldnt solve yet is how to tell claws-mail that it should use dark colors for text on the tree-view and messages-window.

i found this screenie from the claws-mail w/ tango icons thread:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/_media/screenshots/claws-tango.png?w=&h=&cache=cache

This looks pretty much like my setup, I also use the shiki-statler-dark-theme.
Only on my machine, both windows (Folder / Subject) are with white text on light-grey.

I still can read it, but it sucks ... wink


This googled solution using a modified .gtkrc.mine doesnt work for me. I have no clue why it doesnt.

Any help is appreciated. I'm no hacker, but being pointed to the right documentation may help, too wink

thx,
render



*solved*

i copied the theme from /usr/share/themes to /home/USERNAME/.themes and renamed it to Shiki-Statler-Dark_ClawsTreeviewFix

Then added the following lines (from the googled solution) to the gtkrc-file in the gtk-2.0 sub-folder

style "clawsfix"

{

  fg[NORMAL]  = "#1F1F1F"

}

class "*Tree*"     style "clawsfix"

and chose the theme in the appearance-dialogue- voilà smile

Last edited by render (2010-10-27 11:11:39)

  • From: Cumbria / UK
  • Registered: 2008-12-06
  • Posts: 261

Re: Claws-Mail GTK

You could test this: http://urukrama.wordpress.com/2008/07/1 … lications/

I'm using it to have Opera use the Ia_ora gnome theme that you can only get from Mandriva, and it's working pretty well with Urukrama's trick.

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