Chapter 7: Metacity
H I want to apply my background color to the Cinnamon theme, so in the Mint-X-Sand-Gold/cinnamon/cinnamon.css file I will go to line 155 and put in my background color. .popup-menu-boxpointer {
-arrow-border-radius: 4px; -arrow-background-color: #ca942e; -arrow-border-width: 1px; -arrow-border-color: rgba(40,40,40,0.3); TIP: After making a change to cinnamon.css,
there are several ways to refresh Cinnamon to display
the change.
That takes care of the background for the Menu and the Calendar and the right-click menus, but I don't want to look at that grey Panel, so I need to edit lines 312 and 313:
background-gradient-start: rgb(246,246,246);
I already know the RGB for my background color is RGB -
202,148,46. The background-gradient-start is at the
top of the Panel, and I would like that to be a slightly
lighter color. At http://www.color-hex.com/color/ca942e
I see that the next lighter tints are #cf9e42 (RGB
- 207,158,66) and #D4A957 (RGB - 212,169,87), so
I will try both of those to see which I prefer. After
comparison, the second choice will do for now.background-gradient-end: rgb(206,206,206);
background-gradient-start: rgb(212,169,87);
background-gradient-end: rgb(202,148,46); I am left with grey Window List tabs that I don't like, but they can wait until I get serious with the cinnamon.css in the Cinnamon chapter. At this point, my preparation is done. In Nemo, I will right-click on the .themes/Mint-X-Sand-Gold folder > Duplicate. That creates a backup copy - so if I mess things up, as I am prone to do, I can fall back to this point. |