[SOLVED] Cannot change highlight background color in gsimplecal

mzsade · 06-27-2016, 12:14 AM

This is not a major issue but it is so vexing! I have been at it for more than a week and i am still stuck with the default blue background highlight. And gtk-theme-config is practically useless.
Standalone Openbox window manager with tint2.
~/,config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

Code:

/* Custom styles */

/* select-on */
@define-color selected_bg_color #36b03e;
@define-color selected_fg_color #eeeeee;
@define-color theme_selected_bg_color @selected_bg_color;
@define-color theme_selected_fg_color @selected_fg_color;
/* select-on */

/* panel-on */
@define-color panel_bg_color #cccccc;
@define-color panel_fg_color #333333;

PanelWidget,
PanelApplet,
PanelToplevel,
PanelSeparator,
PanelApplet > GtkMenuBar.menubar,
PanelApplet > GtkMenuBar.menubar.menuitem,
PanelMenuBar.menubar,
PanelMenuBar.menubar.menuitem,
PanelAppletFrame,
UnityPanelWidget,
.gnome-panel-menu-bar,
.unity-panel {
	background-image: -gtk-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,from(shade(@panel_bg_color,1.2)),to(shade(@panel_bg_color,0.8)));
	color: @panel_fg_color;
}

.unity-panel.menuitem,
.unity-panel .menuitem {
	color: @panel_fg_color;
}

.unity-panel.menubar.menuitem:hover,
.unity-panel.menubar .menuitem *:hover {
	border-color: shade(@panel_bg_color, 0.7);
	border-image: none;
	background-image: -gtk-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,from(shade(@panel_bg_color, 0.97)),to(shade(@panel_bg_color, 0.82)));
	color: @panel_fg_color;
}

PanelApplet .button {
	border-color: transparent;
	border-image: none;
	background-image: -gtk-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,from(shade(@panel_bg_color,1.2)),to(shade(@panel_bg_color,0.8)));
	color: @panel_fg_color;
	box-shadow: none;
	text-shadow: none;
	-unico-inner-stroke-width: 0;
}

PanelApplet .button:active {
	border-color: shade(@panel_bg_color,0.8);
	border-image: none;
	background-image: -gtk-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,from(shade(shade(@panel_bg_color,1.02),0.9)),to(shade(shade(@panel_bg_color,1.02),0.95)));
	color: @panel_fg_color;
	box-shadow: none;
	text-shadow: none;
	-unico-inner-stroke-width: 0;
}

PanelApplet .button:prelight {
	border-color: transparent;
	border-image: none;
	background-image: -gtk-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,from(shade(@panel_bg_color,1.2)),to(shade(@panel_bg_color,1.0)));
	color: @panel_fg_color;
	box-shadow: none;
	text-shadow: none;
	-unico-inner-stroke-width: 0;
}

PanelApplet .button:active:prelight {
	border-color: shade(@panel_bg_color,0.8);
	border-image: none;
	background-image: -gtk-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,from(shade(shade(@panel_bg_color,1.02),1.0)),to(shade(shade(@panel_bg_color,1.02),1.05)));
	color: @panel_fg_color;
	box-shadow: none;
	text-shadow: none;
	-unico-inner-stroke-width: 0;
}

WnckPager,
WnckTasklist {
	background-color: @panel_bg_color;
}

/* panel-on */

/* menu-on */
@define-color menu_bg_color #2e3436;
@define-color menu_fg_color #eeeeee;

GtkTreeMenu.menu,
GtkMenuToolButton.menu,
GtkComboBox .menu {
	background-color: @menu_bg_color;
}

.primary-toolbar .button .menu,
.toolbar .menu,
.toolbar .primary-toolbar .menu,
.menu {
	border-style: none;
	background-image: none;
	background-color: @menu_bg_color;
	color: @menu_fg_color;
	box-shadow: none;
	text-shadow: none;
	-unico-inner-stroke-width: 0;
}

.menu.button:hover,
.menu.button:active,
.menu.button:active:insensitive,
.menu.button:insensitive,
.menu.button {
	background-color: @menu_bg_color;
	background-image: none;
}

GtkTreeMenu .menuitem * {
	color: @menu_fg_color;
}

.menuitem,
.menu .menuitem {
	background-color: transparent;
}

.menu .menuitem:active,
.menu .menuitem:hover {
	background-color: @theme_selected_bg_color;
}

.menuitem.check,
.menuitem.radio,
.menuitem.check:hover,
.menuitem.radio:hover,
.menuitem.check:active,
.menuitem.radio:active {
	background-color: transparent;
}

.menu .menuitem:insensitive,
.menu .menuitem *:insensitive {
	color: mix(@menu_fg_color,@menu_bg_color,0.5);
}

.menuitem.arrow {
	color: alpha(@menu_fg_color, 0.6);
}

.menuitem .entry {
	border-color: shade(@menu_bg_color,0.7);
	border-image: none;
	background-color: @menu_bg_color;
	background-image: none;
	color: @menu_fg_color;
}

.menuitem .accelerator {
	color: alpha(@menu_fg_color,0.6);
}

.menuitem .accelerator:insensitive {
	color: alpha(mix(@menu_fg_color,@menu_bg_color,0.5),0.6);
	text-shadow: none;
}

.menuitem.separator {
	background-color: transparent;
	color: shade(@menu_bg_color, 0.9);
}

.menuitem GtkCalendar,
.menuitem GtkCalendar.button,
.menuitem GtkCalendar.header,
.menuitem GtkCalendar.view {
	border-color: shade(@menu_bg_color,0.8);
	border-image: none;
	background-color: @menu_bg_color;
	background-image: none;
	color: @menu_fg_color;
}

.menuitem GtkCalendar:inconsistent {
	color: mix(@menu_fg_color,@menu_bg_color,0.5);
}

/* menu-on */

~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

Code:

[Settings]
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme = true
gtk-theme-name = Adwaita
gtk-fallback-icon-theme = gnome
gtk-icon-theme-name = Faenza-Dark
gtk-font-name = Terminus 10

~/.config/gsimplecal/config

Code:

show_calendar = 1
              show_timezones = 1
              mark_today = 1
              show_week_numbers = 0
              close_on_unfocus = 0
              external_viewer = sunbird -showdate "%Y-%m-%d"
              clock_format = %a %I:%M:%S %p 
              force_lang = en_US.utf8
              mainwindow_decorated = 0
              mainwindow_keep_above = 1
              mainwindow_sticky = 1
              mainwindow_skip_taskbar = 0
              mainwindow_resizable = 0
              mainwindow_position = none
              mainwindow_xoffset = 2700
              mainwindow_yoffset = 600
              clock_label = UTC
              clock_tz = :UTC
              clock_label = EST
              clock_tz = :EST

kcirick · 06-27-2016, 09:33 AM

I've had this issue also with Debian Jessie, Openbox & tint2 setup.

My immediate work around was to recompile with gtk2 instead of gtk3. I don't know much about theming, so I'm not much of a help to debug this.

mzsade · 06-27-2016, 01:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kcirick

I've had this issue also with Debian Jessie, Openbox & tint2 setup.

My immediate work around was to recompile with gtk2 instead of gtk3. I don't know much about theming, so I'm not much of a help to debug this.

I am on Debian Sid, also, i've no idea how "to recompile with gtk2", besides that could be too regressive, and possibly a disruptive step in my case. But thanks for the suggestion, i'll keep that in mind. Wish there was something i include in the settings.ini or the gsimplecal/config files, that'd make things so much simpler.

ondoho · 06-27-2016, 02:28 PM

i think they meant to recompile gsimplecal only with gtk2. it is possible, you could have a look at the PKGBUILD for this aur package.
another solution would be to start gsimplecal specifically with a different gtk theme, i think it went something like this:

Code:

GTK_THEME_FILE=/path/to/your/custom/gtkrc gsimplecal

mzsade · 06-27-2016, 07:16 PM

The second option is very attractive, only thing is i do not have a Gnome DE, maybe a few gnome applications which obey the settings.ini i posted earlier, and no gtkrc file which i can try to customize for a particular application. All i have is a lot of OpenBox themerc files in /usr/share/themes but they don't work..lots of theme parsing errors about insensitive and inconsistent pseudo-classes being deprecated. Currently looking through this, hoping i can make something of it.

Edit: Installed clearlooks-phenix with synaptic, it's a gtk3 theme and it gave me both a gtk-2.0 folder with a gtkrc file and a gtk-3.0 folder with a settings.ini file. Tried them both out as you suggested, got theme parsing errors in Terminal with both, the calendar was displayed as before nevertheless.

ondoho · 06-28-2016, 02:07 AM

well i don't know how this works with gtk3 (since your gsimplecal uses gtk3, no?), but this is definitely possible with gtk2.
the syntax is:

Code:

GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc audacity

i just checked.
source
you will always get theme parsing errors, e.g.:

Code:

(Audacity:12322): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_disable_setlocale() must be called before gtk_init()
$ GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc icedove

(process:13204): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed

for all intents and purposes, they are meaningless.

kcirick · 06-28-2016, 08:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mzsade

Edit: Installed clearlooks-phenix with synaptic, it's a gtk3 theme and it gave me both a gtk-2.0 folder with a gtkrc file and a gtk-3.0 folder with a settings.ini file. Tried them both out as you suggested, got theme parsing errors in Terminal with both, the calendar was displayed as before nevertheless.

The theming command for gtk2 and gtk3 are not interchangeable. Even if the theme comes with both GTK2 and GTK3 versions, if the program (in our case gsimplecal) is compiled for GTK3, then it won't work with GTK2 themes, and vice versa.

Would you like to try recompiling with GTK2 and see if that works for you? Get the source from https://github.com/dmedvinsky/gsimplecal then:

Code:

 ./autogen.sh
 ./configure --enable-gtk2
 make

One you are happy with it, you can package it up using checkinstall (it will create a dpkg).

mzsade · 07-07-2016, 05:14 PM

Sorry guys, bad wifi, it's the monsoons here in Bombay, tried posting a longer post but lost connectivity twice before..