Changing colors of themes

[Paul Smith]

On 12/29/06, JoeHill <joehill at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > I am using the Clearlooks-Olive as theme. Is it possible to change the
> > Olive color by Dark Yellow?
>
> ...you should be able to just edit the .gtkrc for the theme, just pick a colour
> in Gimp or whatever, do a search and replace on the main them colour (ie.
> scrollbar, highlights, etc.).
>
> If it's in /usr, just cp it to your ~/, rename it to your liking, then edit at
> will.
>
> I've done that with a couple of the Murrina themes, love the fact I can
> overcome my colour-blindness by using hex values ;-)

Thanks, Joe. The configuration file is in

/usr/share/themes/Clearlooks-Olive/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

Where should I place a copy of it in my home directory?

Paul