changing the active window title bar color

[Josh Stratton]

Most of the themes I've briefly looked through on xfce-look don't seem to
have any contrasting color between highlighted menus besides a change in
color.  Since this was the default style in xfce way back when this is some
new style in the xfce community, where only fonts are usually changed
between active windows.

I was just hoping it would be some quick fix instead of a whole bunch of
trial and error.  For example, I downloaded your Clearlooks2 example theme
and tossed it in the theme directory, but it doesn't show up in the themes
list.  Now I'm sure I could go investigate that, but I'm just approaching
diminishing returns for changing the title bar color.  I'm not a theme
affecionado that likes having every color and border perfectly configured.
 I just wanted to change pretty any theme to get some contrast between
active and non-active windows.

/usr/share/themes$ ll
total 152
drwxr-xr-x  35 root root  4096 Dec  9 11:35 ./
drwxr-xr-x 484 root root 16384 Dec  9 10:50 ../
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root  4096 Dec  3 17:33 Adwaita/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Feb 13  2013 AgingGorilla/
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root  4096 Dec  9 09:06 Albatross/
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root  4096 Dec  3 18:15 Ambiance/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Feb 13  2013 Atlanta/
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root  4096 Dec  9 09:06 Bluebird/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Feb 13  2013 Bright/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Feb 13  2013 Clearlooks/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Dec  9 11:26 Clearlooks2/
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 Feb 13  2013 Crux/
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 Dec  9 10:36 CruxCustom/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Dec  9 09:07 Daloa/
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root  4096 Dec  9 09:07 Default/
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 Feb 13  2013 Emacs/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Feb 13  2013 Esco/
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root  4096 Dec  9 09:06 Greybird/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Dec  9 09:06 Greybird-compact/
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root  4096 Dec  3 17:33 HighContrast/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Feb 13  2013 Industrial/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Dec  9 09:07 Kokodi/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Feb 13  2013 Metabox/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Feb 13  2013 Mist/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Dec  9 09:07 Moheli/
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root  4096 Dec  9 09:06 Numix/
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root  4096 Dec  9 09:06 Orion/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 May 21  2013 oxygen-gtk/
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root  4096 Dec  3 18:15 Radiance/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Feb 13  2013 Raleigh/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Feb 13  2013 Redmond/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Feb 13  2013 Simple/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Dec  9 09:06 Smoke/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Feb 13  2013 ThinIce/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Dec  9 09:06 ZOMG-PONIES!/



On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 11:18 AM, houghi <houghi at houghi.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 10:41:12AM -0800, Josh Stratton wrote:
> > I didn't see any images related to the active window, so I assume that's
> just
> > not configurable.  I updated the window to be slightly transparent--still
> > legible, but provides a bit of a hint.  It's just not as pronounced as I
> like
> > it to be.  Thanks, guys.
>
> Have you installed all the themes? I have 90+ themes and some have a very
> clear differnce, while others are almost identical.
>
> Next you can change the font color as explained in another post.
>
> You can also look at http://xfce-look.org/
> e.g.
>
> http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Clearlooks2-Squared-mat?content=162084
> has a clear difference.
>
> http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Moises+Black+%28xfwm4+theme%29?content=154021
> is much harder to see the difference.
>
> Last you can make your own theme. First perhaps based on something you
> know. Later from scratch and give back to the community via the above
> link.
>
>
> houghi
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