Hi,
I've been experimenting with this and although I know
very little about themes - maybe I can share my newbie experience
and hope that an expert will come along and help with this.
This is how I changed nemo's sidepane colour to blue (as an example) in LM14 Cinnamon (the quick 'n dirty way
)
Go to /usr/share/themes and copy the Mint-X folder.
Go to /home folder > click View > Show hidden files
If .themes folder is not there already, create it (note the . dot)
Open .themes folder, right-click and Paste the copy of Mint-X folder
Rename the copy of Mint-X folder to (in my case) Mint-X-blue
Open Mint-X-blue > gtk3.0 > apps > nemo.css
In "sidebar" section of the file, change the background-color line from the default value #3F3F3F - so the line reads
Save the file, Close.
Go to Cinnamon Settings > Themes > Other settings > GTK+ theme
Click down arrow, choose Mint-X-blue
Close
Open /home folder to see something like this (may have to logout/in).
If you just want to change the sidepane colour - that's all you would have to do.
I didn't want the green "highlights" on the sidepane, but I didn't know which files to edit in Mint-X-blue.
So I changed it in
dconf-editor instead
(you can install it from Software Manager - search for
dconf-tools, or install from terminal - enter
sudo apt-get install dconf-tools)
Open dconf-editor
Click down arrow next to:
org > gnome > desktop > click interface
Click on gtk-color-scheme line, then click it again to the right of gtk-color-scheme - under black:white:gray etc.
I chose another shade of blue, and entered in the box, then pressed enter:
After logout/in the green highlights shown in the first picture were changed to blue.
I did some further editing in dconf-editor to change the background of windows and programs -
Appended the gtk-color-scheme line to read:
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selected_bg_color:#74ade8;bg_color:#c8d5e1;
to get this result:
I also changed the nemo window background colour this way, by adding
base_color:#d1d9e1;
on the end of the line as above. The background was then blue as well
- but
I found that this not only changed the file manager background, but also many other programs as well -
gedit had the coloured background and Firefox address bars were also changed for example - I didn't want this.
So I removed the base_color part on the gtk-color-scheme line, which left the background white.
I'd like to know how to
just change nemo's background colour and leave the other programs alone.
It's far from perfect, but I'm reasonably happy with the effect.
I got some idea from here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/65759/ho ... lus-window
If you can't be bothered with the above - you may like these ready made themes:
http://www.fandigital.com/2012/08/zonco ... color.html
caribriz
Edit: I now know how to change the theme files. If interested check out this thread:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 21#p788921