Gnome 3 -The switch!

[dedanna1029]

*wants color for title bars - hates the plain white. Loathes it.

[viking60]

Coming up.....
If you make the following changes to /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml

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....
<constant name="C_border_focused" value="#000064" />
<constant name="C_border_unfocused" value="#0052FF" />
<constant name="C_border_attached_focused" value="#000064" />
<constant name="C_titlebar_focused_hilight" value="#000064" />
<constant name="C_titlebar_unfocused" value="#0052FF" />
....
much further down
.....
<draw_ops name="titlebar_fill_focused_alt">
        <gradient type="vertical" x="0" y="0" width="width" height="height">
                <color value="#6B6EAC"/>
                <color value="#000064"/>
        </gradient>
</draw_ops>
....
<draw_ops name="titlebar_fill_unfocused">
        <gradient type="vertical" x="0" y="0" width="width" height="height">
                <color value="#7096E3"/>
                <color value="#0052FF"/>
        </gradient>
</draw_ops>
....


You will get Blue and Light Blue - you can play around with the colors. (Make a backup first too).
<ALT>+<F2> and fill inn r to test it - it works!

[dedanna1029]

Gracias amundo.

May try also, starting compiz manually and seeing if I can get Emerald going. If I can, I'll be all the happier.

Someday when there's time though, unfortunately. Life's become mind-blowingly busy lately.

[viking60]

De nada - but you are right of course Emerald or some decoration tool is much better than this hacking. I guess it will come eventually. I am told that the Gnome guys had to rush the release because of Unity. So I guess there are a lot of improvements to be expected.
I am so pleased with this hack so it is time to show off my gnome3-shell again

[dedanna1029]

Do dat be AWN I see in that? Or kiba-dock?

[viking60]

Dat wood b AWN

[dedanna1029]

Aye, cap'n. *Ooooohhm,,, oooooohhm, *chants in homage

[dedanna1029]

Coming up.....
If you make the following changes to /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml

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....
<constant name="C_border_focused" value="#000064" />
<constant name="C_border_unfocused" value="#0052FF" />
<constant name="C_border_attached_focused" value="#000064" />
<constant name="C_titlebar_focused_hilight" value="#000064" />
<constant name="C_titlebar_unfocused" value="#0052FF" />
....
much further down
.....
<draw_ops name="titlebar_fill_focused_alt">
        <gradient type="vertical" x="0" y="0" width="width" height="height">
                <color value="#6B6EAC"/>
                <color value="#000064"/>
        </gradient>
</draw_ops>
....
<draw_ops name="titlebar_fill_unfocused">
        <gradient type="vertical" x="0" y="0" width="width" height="height">
                <color value="#7096E3"/>
                <color value="#0052FF"/>
        </gradient>
</draw_ops>
....


This no workied for me. Need to know where I went wrong. Still stuck with white.



cat /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml is here.

Thanks.

[viking60]

Ok after yesterdays update I have to redo it anyway so gimme a minute...
Let us start with the title bars first:

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sudo nano /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml

find

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<draw_ops name="titlebar_fill_focused_alt">

And make it look exactly like this:

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<draw_ops name="titlebar_fill_focused_alt">
        <gradient type="vertical" x="0" y="0" width="width" height="height">
                <color value="#6B6EAC" />
                <!-- <color value="gtk:bg[NORMAL]"/> -->
                <!-- <color value="blend/gtk:bg[NORMAL]/#000000/0.03" /> -->
                <color value="#000064"/>
        </gradient>
</draw_ops>




Then "Arrow down" to

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<draw_ops name="titlebar_fill_unfocused">

Here we have to change a lot! Make it look exactly like this:

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<draw_ops name="titlebar_fill_unfocused">
        <gradient type="vertical" x="0" y="0" width="width" height="height">
                <color value="#7096E3"/>
                <color value="#0052FF"/>
</gradient>
</draw_ops>



You will have to add the gradient and replace the second line. So it is best to delete it and cut and paste from here.

Save it and make a first test with <ALT>+<F2> and fill in r hit enter and it restarts.
When you open two windows the active one will have a dark blue bar and the inactive one will be light blue.

The text still looks like shite though.. but we are not finished...
Ok Let's finish:
Make these look exactly like this:

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<!-- meaningfull constants -->

<constant name="C_border_focused" value="blend/#000064/gtk:bg[NORMAL]/0.6" />
<constant name="C_border_unfocused" value="blend/#0052FF/gtk:bg[NORMAL]/0.8" />
<constant name="C_border_attached_focused" value="blend/#000064/gtk:bg[NORMAL]/0.4" />
<constant name="C_titlebar_focused_hilight" value="#000064" />
<constant name="C_titlebar_unfocused" value="#0052FF" />
<constant name="C_title_focused" value="#EADD14" />
<constant name="C_title_focused_hilight" value="#101000" />
<constant name="C_title_unfocused" value="blend/gtk:text[NORMAL]/gtk:bg[NORMAL]/0.9" />


save it and do the <ALT>+<F2> +r

Now it should look like this:


Once you have it working you can play around with the colors here of course.
When done it is time to prevent this file from being "updated" in Arch it is easy! In /etc/pacman.conf I enter:

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NoUpgrade = usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml

No slash at the beginning!

The entire enchilada here

[dedanna1029]

Ok after yesterdays update I have to redo it anyway so gimme a minute...

SCORE!!! I had made those changes BEFORE I updated. Will try now, but remember, I'm not on gnome-shell with it so Alt+F2 then r doesn't work for me. I have to logout/login. BBIAF.

Edit: Nope, still no love, after 1st & 2nd steps. Could this be, *because* I'm not on gnome-shell perhaps? Wait, nope, because it's a metacity file, which shouldn't affect, or be affected by gnome-shell.

Therefore, since it's a root file (one in root), I wonder if I need to reboot instead of just logout/login?

Also, wondering if being on clearlooks-colors theme for my icons is throwing a kink in the works?

Going to try your whole enchilada, logout/login, and go from there. Will report back. Thanks.

Edit2: Nope, still no joy. *Somehow*, what's happening in root's metacity isn't "transferring over" so to speak, to what's going on with regular user here. I have not only logged out/logged in, but also rebooted.

Here's what I have in the tweak tool:


Here's the permissions on that file we've been working with:

[viking60]

Yes this will only work in Gnome3-shell. In Gnome3 Fallback you have Compiz and Emerald working so I don't see why you would want it there?

[dedanna1029]

For times when I'm not running compiz? I don't do these things full-time, y'know. lol.